Marked for Islambek Baizhanov
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad7 Dec 2026
18 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Akzhaiyk lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Victor Chuvilov and Akzhaiyk agree another 2 years.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Akzhaiyk
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Rinat Nurgaliev was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad30 Nov 2026
25 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Akzhaiyk lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A muscle injury sidelines Kairat Orazov for 14 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Akzhaiyk will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Akzhaiyk
Yeldos Tymoshchuk and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
In brief
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Squad
Words at Akzhaiyk training over how hard people work
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad23 Nov 2026
33 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Akzhaiyk lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad23 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Akzhaiyk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad23 Nov 2026
The word out of the training ground is that he has been the sharpest man there all week. It is the quietest story a paper carries and it usually runs the week before somebody's run in the side begins.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad16 Nov 2026
40 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Akzhaiyk lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad16 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Akzhaiyk
Lev Kurgin and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Loan watch16 Nov 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Akzhaiyk, and 0 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad9 Nov 2026
47 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Akzhaiyk lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Akzhaiyk
Abzal Baizhanov and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Bruno Grassi, and the manager let it.
Loan watch9 Nov 2026
“I did not go to Irtysh to sit and watch. I want to come back to Akzhaiyk and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 13 matches say the rest.
Market9 Nov 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Akzhaiyk, another week without a signature from Victor Chuvilov.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Akzhaiyk
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Serikzhan Nurgaliev was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.