Marked for Askhat Logvinenko
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad19 Apr 2027
The words a physio says slowly. 50 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.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Tempers go at Irtysh
Kairat Beysebekov 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
Successful dribbles: 20. 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
Words at Irtysh training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dauren Nuserbayev 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.
Match17 Apr 2027
It needed Dauren Nuserbayev to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Okzhetpes, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Squad23 Nov 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 127 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Irtysh
Mohamed Yassine Abouzra 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
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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Uneasy
Squad28 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Irtysh
Mohamed Yassine Abouzra 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
Words at Irtysh training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abzal Nurgaliev 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Askhat Logvinenko, and the manager let it.
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Crisis
Match12 Aug 2026
Irtysh bow out of the cup
Okzhetpes go through and Irtysh go home, 0‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Market17 Aug 2026
The phone has started ringing about Amir Akhmedov again, and this time the name on the line is Tobol. Irtysh are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Irtysh
Mohamed Yassine Abouzra 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
“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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Irtysh will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Azat Suyumbayev's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market17 Aug 2026
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Nurbol Suyumbayev has his answer from Irtysh; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
5.67 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.