Marked for Askhat Nuserbayev
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Steady
Squad13 Sep 2027
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Irtysh will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad13 Sep 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad13 Sep 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ordabasy Baizhanov commits to Irtysh for another 4 years.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Niv Yehoshua is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Loan watch13 Sep 2027
“I watch every Irtysh game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Kairat runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Market13 Sep 2027
A season-long audition: Hapoel Beer Sheva still own him, but the shirt and the minutes are Irtysh's to give. A loan is a bet both clubs believe they are winning.
Back issues
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Steady
Match7 Apr 2027
Cup progress for Irtysh
A 0‑0 win over Zhetysu, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Player ratings12 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 30. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad12 Apr 2027
1 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Tempers go at Irtysh
Noam Ben-Harush 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.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Hossein Saki 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.
Market12 Apr 2027
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Irtysh has been clear about where Ordabasy Suyumbayev stands, which is more than many ever get.
Player ratings12 Apr 2027
9 combined actions and 6.46. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
Loan watch12 Apr 2027
“I did not go to Maccabi Netanya to sit and watch. I want to come back to Irtysh and fight for my place.” 2 appearances in 10 matches say the rest.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
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Upbeat
Market25 Jan 2027
Irtysh say no — this time
The offer from Borneo for Ordabasy Baizhanov was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market25 Jan 2027
“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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Irtysh this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Upbeat
Squad28 Sep 2026
103 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Irtysh lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Irtysh
Ezequiel Viola 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Hossein Saki 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.
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Upbeat
Squad21 Sep 2026
110 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Irtysh lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Irtysh have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market21 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
16 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Market21 Sep 2026
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Askhat Logvinenko reports back to Irtysh with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Squad21 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Irtysh this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Triumph
Squad7 Sep 2026
The words a physio says slowly. 125 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.
Match2 Sep 2026
Irtysh through in the cup
A 2‑1 win over Astana, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
A brace, and Askhat Vorogovskiy takes the afternoon — 9.13
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Askhat Vorogovskiy provided it, and the 9.13 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market7 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.
Match2 Sep 2026
Irtysh cannot stop winning
3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad7 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Irtysh this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Irtysh training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Hossein Saki 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Yousef Vakia 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Askhat Nuserbayev has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Irtysh.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad17 Aug 2026
151 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Irtysh lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match12 Aug 2026
Irtysh march on in the cup
Okzhetpes are out and Irtysh go through, 3‑1 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.49, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Market17 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Irtysh
Ezequiel Viola 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Hossein Saki 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.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 18-year-old it feels ownership of. Islambek Beysebekov has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“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.
Match12 Aug 2026
Irtysh hit back inside 4 minutes
Okzhetpes held the lead for 4 minutes, which is not long enough to enjoy it. Irtysh answered before the celebration had properly finished, and the shape of the afternoon changed with it.