The Ordabasy Courier
Market10 Aug 2026
Ordabasy turn down Astana for Yurii Vakulko
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Şəhruddin Məhəmmədəliyev will not be coming to Ordabasy
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Qarabag is saying, and nobody at Ordabasy is enjoying the guessing.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tidiane Keita signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Tidiane Keita and Ordabasy agree another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Ordabasy
Tidiane Keita 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Ordabasy rebuffed over Dostonbek To'xtaboyev
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Mashal have kept their man, and Ordabasy go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market10 Aug 2026
Aibol Kuat steps up from the Ordabasy academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Aibol Kuat 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
Ordabasy Logvinenko steps up from the Ordabasy academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ordabasy 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: Nurali Tymoshchuk joins the Ordabasy first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Nurali Tymoshchuk 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
Qazhymūqan Tölepbergen has outgrown this division
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Ordabasy know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
In brief
- Squad Too much change too quickly at Ordabasy
- Transfer targets A loan move for Benjamin Göschl is in the works
- The dugout Tidiane Keita knocks on the manager's door