Marked for Kairat Tymoshchuk
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad31 Aug 2026
Maxim Tagybergen damages knee ligaments — 118 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 118 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market31 Aug 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Akzhaiyk, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad31 Aug 2026
39 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Back issues
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Crisis
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
What a way to start for Islom Suyunov — 7.72
1 on the scoresheet on his first appearance and a mark of 7.72 beside it. Most debuts are got through; this one was enjoyed, by him and by everybody watching it.
Squad3 Aug 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.
Match1 Aug 2026
1‑3 to Okzhetpes, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Akzhaiyk training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rinat Nurgaliev is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match1 Aug 2026
Akzhaiyk hit back inside 3 minutes
Okzhetpes held the lead for 3 minutes, which is not long enough to enjoy it. Akzhaiyk answered before the celebration had properly finished, and the shape of the afternoon changed with it.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Kairat Akhmetov and Akzhaiyk agree another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A muscle injury sidelines Kairat Tymoshchuk 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑3, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.