Marked for Timur Logvinenko
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Squad15 Nov 2027
Timur Logvinenko damages knee ligaments — 101 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 101 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.
Squad15 Nov 2027
Rinat Postnikov 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 Nov 2027
Khalifa Mubarak 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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Steady
Squad8 Nov 2027
Timur Logvinenko damages knee ligaments — 108 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 108 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.
Squad8 Nov 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 Akzhaiyk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad8 Nov 2027
Aleksandr Marochkin 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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Steady
Squad1 Nov 2027
Timur Logvinenko damages knee ligaments — 115 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 115 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.
Squad1 Nov 2027
Rinat Postnikov 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.
Squad1 Nov 2027
Words at Akzhaiyk training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Aleksandr Marochkin 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
Squad6 Sep 2027
Rinat Postnikov 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.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Abzal Orazov is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Words at Akzhaiyk training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Aleksandr Marochkin 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.
Squad6 Sep 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Timur Logvinenko commits to Akzhaiyk for another 2 years.
Market6 Sep 2027
The loan was meant to give him football. 0 games and 0 goals later he is back at Akzhaiyk no further forward, and everybody involved will explain why it was not their doing.
Market6 Sep 2027
Akzhaiyk bring in an old head
Christopher Ochieng is 33 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.
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Steady
Squad9 Aug 2027
A fracture rules Abzal Tymoshchuk out for 19 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.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Rinat Postnikov 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
Words at Akzhaiyk training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Aleksandr Marochkin 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.
Squad9 Aug 2027
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Loan watch9 Aug 2027
“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 Akzhaiyk, and 1 appearances in 26 say he has earned the hearing.
Market9 Aug 2027
Akzhaiyk have let the market know Aleksandr Marochkin can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
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Steady
Squad2 Aug 2027
A fracture rules Abzal Tymoshchuk out for 26 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.
Market2 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.
Player ratings2 Aug 2027
No sign of nerves from Samat Suyumbayev at 18 — 7.60
The hardest thing about being 18 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Samat Suyumbayev did not need any: 7.60, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad2 Aug 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 Akzhaiyk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match31 Jul 2027
6 goals in one match, Baurzhan Nurgaliev on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Akzhaiyk and Shakhter.
Match31 Jul 2027
A 4‑2 win over Shakhter, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The terraces2 Aug 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 18-year-old it feels ownership of. Samat Suyumbayev 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.
Player ratings2 Aug 2027
Rinat Postnikov was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.60. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Player ratings2 Aug 2027
Baurzhan Nurgaliev was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.53. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
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Steady
Squad12 Jul 2027
A fracture rules Abzal Tymoshchuk out for 49 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.
Market12 Jul 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.
Squad12 Jul 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 Akzhaiyk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Jul 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Aleksandr Marochkin, and the manager let it.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Words at Akzhaiyk training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Timur Logvinenko 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.
Player ratings12 Jul 2027
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Steady
Squad21 Jun 2027
A fracture rules Abzal Tymoshchuk out for 70 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.
Market21 Jun 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.
The terraces21 Jun 2027
Supporters turn on the $270.0K sale of Marat Logvinenko
He is going to Zhetysu, the club has $270.0K 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.
Market21 Jun 2027
The paperwork is done: Madiiar Mergenbaev joins from Taraz in a deal worth $45.0K. Now comes the harder part.
Squad21 Jun 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 Akzhaiyk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market21 Jun 2027
Zhetysu pay $270.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Market21 Jun 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Akzhaiyk have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad21 Jun 2027
The medical room confirms 19 days on the sidelines for Baktiyor Nuserbayev, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Timur Logvinenko 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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Crisis
Squad14 Jun 2027
A fracture rules Abzal Tymoshchuk out for 77 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.
The terraces14 Jun 2027
The ground has had enough
“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 7 of the 30 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.
Player ratings14 Jun 2027
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Rinat Postnikov 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 Jun 2027
Words at Akzhaiyk training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Aleksandr Marochkin 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.
Match12 Jun 2027
Rinat Postnikov scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑3 to Tobol, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad14 Jun 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Aleksandr Marochkin, and the manager let it.
Market14 Jun 2027
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Yeldos Dosmagambetov has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Akzhaiyk.
Player ratings14 Jun 2027
5.12 on the card. Some afternoons a footballer looks like a man who has only just been introduced to the game, and this was one of them.
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Crisis
Squad31 May 2027
A fracture rules Abzal Tymoshchuk out for 91 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.
Market31 May 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.
Squad31 May 2027
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Akzhaiyk have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad31 May 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 Akzhaiyk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match29 May 2027
A bad afternoon for Akzhaiyk against Irtysh
1‑2 to Irtysh, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad31 May 2027
“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.
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Market24 May 2027
“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.
Player ratings24 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad24 May 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Akzhaiyk may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Player ratings24 May 2027
A chastening introduction for Nurali Baizhanov — 5.61
It is a hard way to meet a crowd. Marked 5.61 on the day he was handed the shirt, and the important thing now is what the next one looks like.
Squad24 May 2027
Artur Shushenachev 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.
Match22 May 2027
Whatever happens, Akzhaiyk do not lose
6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad24 May 2027
Aleksandr Marochkin 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 May 2027
“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 watch24 May 2027
“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 Akzhaiyk, and 0 appearances in 13 say he has earned the hearing.
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Uneasy
Squad10 May 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.
Squad10 May 2027
Artur Shushenachev 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.
Player ratings10 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Loan watch10 May 2027
“I watch every Akzhaiyk game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Maccabi Netanya runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad10 May 2027
Nurali Tagybergen 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.
Squad10 May 2027
“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.
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Steady
Market3 May 2027
“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.
Squad3 May 2027
Rinat Postnikov 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 May 2027
Words at Akzhaiyk training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Aleksandr Marochkin 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.
Squad3 May 2027
“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.
Squad3 May 2027
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Dauren Tagybergen is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
Match1 May 2027
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Taraz defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
Player ratings3 May 2027
5.23 on the card. Some afternoons a footballer looks like a man who has only just been introduced to the game, and this was one of them.
Player ratings3 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 11. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings3 May 2027
Marked 5.56, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.
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Steady
Squad26 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 Akzhaiyk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Apr 2027
A muscle injury sidelines Tony for 14 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Akzhaiyk will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Aleksandr Marochkin 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.
Squad26 Apr 2027
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
Marked 8.02. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Akzhaiyk.
Loan watch26 Apr 2027
“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 Akzhaiyk, and 0 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.
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Steady
Squad19 Apr 2027
Artur Shushenachev 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.
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
Marked 8.85. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Akzhaiyk.
Match17 Apr 2027
A 1‑0 win over Astana, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Words at Akzhaiyk training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Khalifa Mubarak 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.
Squad19 Apr 2027
The manager makes an example of Khalifa Mubarak
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad19 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.
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
Off after 61 minutes on a 5.54. There are substitutions that are tactical and substitutions that are a verdict, and everybody in the ground could tell which this was.
Boardroom19 Apr 2027
The Akzhaiyk dressing room answers
Whatever was said behind that door, it worked: the pressing is back, the arguing has stopped, and the manager’s job is being defended in the only language that counts.
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Crisis
Match27 Mar 2027
6 matches without a win for Akzhaiyk
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Akzhaiyk are no longer polite ones.
Market29 Mar 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.
Squad29 Mar 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 Akzhaiyk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings29 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match27 Mar 2027
A bad afternoon for Akzhaiyk against Tobol
2‑3 to Tobol, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Khalifa Mubarak 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.
Squad29 Mar 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Artur Shushenachev, and the manager let it.
Squad29 Mar 2027
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Akzhaiyk are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Loan watch29 Mar 2027
“I did not go to Ordabasy to sit and watch. I want to come back to Akzhaiyk and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
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Crisis
Squad15 Mar 2027
25 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.
Squad15 Mar 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.
Match13 Mar 2027
4 matches without a win for Akzhaiyk
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Akzhaiyk are no longer polite ones.
Squad15 Mar 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 Akzhaiyk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Words at Akzhaiyk training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Aleksandr Marochkin 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.
Match13 Mar 2027
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Loan watch15 Mar 2027
“I did not go to Maccabi Netanya to sit and watch. I want to come back to Akzhaiyk and fight for my place.” 1 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
Off the pace: Tony
A mark of 5.13 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.
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Uneasy
Market7 Dec 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.
Squad7 Dec 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 Akzhaiyk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Dec 2026
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.