Rinat Orazov

Striker - Akzhaiyk
9 Oct 2026
Friday
Process

Marked for Rinat Orazov

9 Edition

The Akzhaiyk Sentinel

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Mohammed Tahiri in a row with a teammate

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.

Squad

Yeldos Nuserbayev gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad

Words at Akzhaiyk training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Timur 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.

In brief

Back issues
7 Edition

The Akzhaiyk Sentinel

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Erbol Shomko asks to leave Akzhaiyk

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Mohammed Tahiri in a row with a teammate

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.

Squad

The manager has not finished forgetting Samat Logvinenko's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

In brief

6 Edition

The Akzhaiyk Sentinel

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Azat Zainutdinov puts it in writing

“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 The request is on a desk at Akzhaiyk, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Zhetysu come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Akzhaiyk did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

Tempers go at Akzhaiyk

Mohammed Tahiri was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Timur Nurgaliev falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Market

No place for Rinat Orazov in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Rinat Orazov has his answer from Akzhaiyk; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Aibol Taykenov

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief