The Akzhaiyk Sentinel
Market3 Aug 2026
Dauren Nurgaliev 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 The request is on a desk at Akzhaiyk, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad3 Aug 2026
6 saves: Nurbol Tagybergen was the team
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Akzhaiyk
Yeldos Akhmetov 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.
Match1 Aug 2026
Akzhaiyk come up short against Okzhetpes
Okzhetpes left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Door shut on Konstantin Kertanov
Akzhaiyk asked and Chelyabinsk said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market3 Aug 2026
Okzhetpes watching Erbol Nuserbayev
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Akzhaiyk have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Baktiyor Logvinenko
“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.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑3 Kairat Dosmagambetov left the room before anybody could ask which.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Akzhaiyk ask about Aleksandr Shirobokov
A loan enquiry to Kairat: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
In brief
- The dugout Serikzhan Dosmagambetov knocks on the manager's door
- Market Talgat Dosmagambetov is free to find somewhere else
- Squad A first senior shirt for Islambek Nuserbayev