Marked for Rinat Logvinenko
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad28 Sep 2026
The words a physio says slowly. 98 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 96 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market28 Sep 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 The request is on a desk at Irtysh, and it is not being withdrawn.
In brief
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Words at Irtysh training over how hard people work
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Tempers go at Irtysh
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad14 Sep 2026
The words a physio says slowly. 112 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Irtysh can pretend not to have heard.
Market14 Sep 2026
The deal that would have taken Maxim Abiken to Taraz has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Irtysh with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Irtysh training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Timur Zainutdinov 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.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
“I did not go to Ordabasy to sit and watch. I want to come back to Irtysh and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
Market14 Sep 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Askhat Akhmetov’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad31 Aug 2026
The words a physio says slowly. 30 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
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Irtysh can pretend not to have heard.
Market31 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
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Triumph
Market3 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 Irtysh, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Irtysh
Gafurzhan Murtazaev 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Timur Zainutdinov 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.
Match1 Aug 2026
Three points for Irtysh, 1‑0 the final word against Ordabasy in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.04, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Azat Vorogovskiy and Irtysh agree another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Irtysh will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Market3 Aug 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Aibol Baizhanov has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Irtysh.
In brief
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Experience through the door at Irtysh
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Irtysh shop where it costs nothing