Marked for Askhat Logvinenko
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Steady
Market23 Aug 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market23 Aug 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Shakhter have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Words at Shakhter training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Älibek Qasym 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.
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Steady
Squad9 Aug 2027
Älibek Qasym 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.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Mpho Mathebula 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.
Squad9 Aug 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Älikhan Israilov commits to Shakhter for another 4 years.
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Uneasy
Player ratings5 Jul 2027
Successful dribbles: 40. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match3 Jul 2027
No end in sight to Shakhter's wait for a win
7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Shakhter has to find a result from somewhere.
Match3 Jul 2027
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 9 matches without defeat is a foundation Shakhter did not have in the autumn.
Market5 Jul 2027
Shakhter say no — this time
The offer from Wellington Phoenix for Artem Litosh 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.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Älibek Qasym 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.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Rustam Zhankhaev 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.
Boardroom5 Jul 2027
Shakhter sign 8 boys into the academy
None of them will be seen by anybody outside the training ground for three years, most of them will never play a senior match, and one of them might change the club. That is the whole proposition, and it is why academies exist.
Squad5 Jul 2027
A place in the month's best eleven for Miras Dilmūrat
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Miras Dilmūrat has come out of that comparison in the side, and Shakhter have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
Squad5 Jul 2027
The team sheet said everything about Arman Nusip
Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Arman Nusip.
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Steady
Market28 Jun 2027
$1.0M. No player has ever cost Irtysh more, and expectation arrives with him.
Match23 Jun 2027
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.
Match23 Jun 2027
Cruel end for Astana as Irtysh pounce
There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Irtysh scored in the 98th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.
Player ratings28 Jun 2027
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.79, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
The terraces28 Jun 2027
Supporters turn on the $250.0K sale of Askhat Logvinenko
He is going to Shakhter, the club has $250.0K it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.
Market28 Jun 2027
Irtysh get their man
The chase for Alexandr Zuev ended with $850.0K changing hands and Tobol out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Market28 Jun 2027
Taraz come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Irtysh did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Hossein Saki in a row with a teammate
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.
Market28 Jun 2027
Askhat Logvinenko has left for Shakhter in a $250.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
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Uneasy
Squad28 Jun 2027
Ali Al-Amri is the hero from the spot
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Ali Al-Amri: 3 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Match23 Jun 2027
Shakhter through in the cup
A 1‑1 win over Tobol, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Match26 Jun 2027
The wait goes on for Shakhter
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match26 Jun 2027
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 8 matches without defeat is a foundation Shakhter did not have in the autumn.
Market28 Jun 2027
The fee is $250.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Irtysh drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Älibek Qasym 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.
The terraces28 Jun 2027
Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Askhat Logvinenko from Irtysh for $250.0K, and a ticket office having a very good morning.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Mpho Mathebula 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.
Player ratings28 Jun 2027
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Steady
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad5 Apr 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.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Words at Irtysh training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Erbol Dosmagambetov 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.
Market5 Apr 2027
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Irtysh has been clear about where Askhat Vorogovskiy stands, which is more than many ever get.
Squad5 Apr 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Erbol Dosmagambetov, and the manager let it.
Match3 Apr 2027
Three points for Irtysh, 1‑0 the final word against Taraz in a contest settled by the finer margins.
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Upbeat
Market22 Feb 2027
Okzhetpes come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Irtysh did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad22 Feb 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.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Yousef Vakia 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
Squad15 Feb 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.
Squad15 Feb 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.
Market15 Feb 2027
Taraz paid $6.0K and Irtysh took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Nobody at Irtysh will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Squad15 Feb 2027
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Irtysh would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
Market15 Feb 2027
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Askhat Logvinenko signs something — a contract at Irtysh or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Upbeat
Market8 Feb 2027
Ordabasy come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Irtysh did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad8 Feb 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
Everyone has stopped pretending: Shakhter will make the call about Askhat Logvinenko this week. Irtysh have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
Squad8 Feb 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Islambek Beysebekov 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nurali Zainutdinov, and the manager let it.
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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
Squad23 Nov 2026
39 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.
Match18 Nov 2026
The small margins put Irtysh out
Out, 1‑2 to Kairat, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Squad23 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Irtysh may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad23 Nov 2026
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.
Squad23 Nov 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.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
7.99, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Irtysh had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Loan watch23 Nov 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Irtysh, and 0 appearances in 14 say he has earned the hearing.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 9. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Chances created: 4. Somebody has to open a door before anybody can walk through it, and he spent the afternoon opening doors.
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Upbeat
Squad19 Oct 2026
Ezequiel Viola damages knee ligaments — 164 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 164 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.
Market19 Oct 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.
Squad19 Oct 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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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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Upbeat
Squad14 Sep 2026
The words a physio says slowly. 118 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.
Squad14 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Irtysh training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ordabasy Suyumbayev 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
Add another name to the list: Shakhter have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Askhat Logvinenko. The answer from Irtysh has not changed — yet.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Yeldos Taykenov, and the manager let it.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Irtysh, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
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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.
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Upbeat
Squad31 Aug 2026
The words a physio says slowly. 132 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
“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.
Squad31 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.
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Upbeat
Squad24 Aug 2026
The words a physio says slowly. 141 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.
Match19 Aug 2026
Irtysh through in the cup
A 2‑0 win over Shakhter, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Market24 Aug 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.00, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Market24 Aug 2026
Astana come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Irtysh did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad24 Aug 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Ordabasy Suyumbayev 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Abzal Nurgaliev, and the manager let it.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
10 combined actions and 7.34. 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.
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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.