The Aktobe Courier
Squad10 Aug 2026
Dmytro Topalov breaks a bone — 94 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 94 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market10 Aug 2026
Aktobe turn down Zalgiris for Artur Shushenachev
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Aktobe
Giorgi Zaria and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Pyunik tell Aktobe: Sargis Metoyan is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market10 Aug 2026
Tobol join the queue for Ädilkhan Taňzharyqov
Add another name to the list: Tobol have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Ädilkhan Taňzharyqov. The answer from Aktobe has not changed — yet.
Market10 Aug 2026
Samat Logvinenko steps up from the Aktobe academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Samat Logvinenko has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Serikzhan Murtazaev joins the Aktobe first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Serikzhan Murtazaev is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Aktobe are still strangers to each other
11 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Aktobe try to borrow Yurii Vakulko
Ordabasy have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
In brief
- Transfer targets A loan move for Arayik Eloyan is in the works
- Squad Bağdat Qaiyrov has seen what the next man earns