The Akzhaiyk Sentinel
Squad11 Oct 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Naftali Balay
64 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Akzhaiyk lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market11 Oct 2027
Dauren Abiken 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 The request is on a desk at Akzhaiyk, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad11 Oct 2027
A fracture rules Marat Abiken out for 38 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Akzhaiyk will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Tempers go at Akzhaiyk
Abzal 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.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Masaki Okino 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.
Market11 Oct 2027
Marat Islamkhan leaves for nothing
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Marat Islamkhan leaves Akzhaiyk the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
In brief
- Market Rinat Postnikov leaves for nothing
- Loan watch Decision time nears on Kairat Baizhanov