The Irtysh Herald
Market3 Aug 2026
Islambek Nurgaliev 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 The request is on a desk at Irtysh, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Baurzhan Akhmetov signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Baurzhan Akhmetov and Irtysh agree another 2 years.
Match1 Aug 2026
Irtysh get the job done against Ordabasy
A 1‑0 win over Ordabasy, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Market3 Aug 2026
Ordabasy watching Islambek Abiken
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Irtysh have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Erbol Akhmetov 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Nurbol Baizhanov told to find a new club
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Nurbol Baizhanov has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Irtysh.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Gafurzhan Tagybergen knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Gafurzhan Tagybergen trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Gafurzhan Vorogovskiy is off the mark for Irtysh
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
Market3 Aug 2026
12 months and counting on Kairat Murtazaev
Still no offer on the table, and Kairat Murtazaev’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
In brief
- The terraces The press have found their man in Gafurzhan Vorogovskiy
- The terraces The stand has a song for Gafurzhan Vorogovskiy