17
Edition
The Akzhaiyk Sentinel
23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Akzhaiyk
Roman Yemeljanov 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Akzhaiyk
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Kairat Zainutdinov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Baktiyor Murtazaev knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Baktiyor Murtazaev trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
In brief
- Squad The training reports on Baktiyor Murtazaev are not good
- The dugout Talgat Nuserbayev keeps his manager's vote
- Squad Islambek Kuat is out on the grass again