The Akzhaiyk Sentinel
Market13 Sep 2027
Abzal Taykenov is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Akzhaiyk is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Tempers go at Akzhaiyk
Maxim Taykenov 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.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Talğat Kusiapov 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.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Azamat Erkinbek 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.
Loan watch13 Sep 2027
Maxim Dosmagambetov counts the days
“I watch every Akzhaiyk game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Ordabasy runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Singnkhi Mpedi still has not settled
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Akzhaiyk would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
In brief
- Market Samat Postnikov leaves for nothing
- Market Nurali Logvinenko leaves for nothing
- Market Window shut, Kairat Postnikov still here