Samat Logvinenko

Striker - Free Agent
13 Oct 2033
Thursday
Process

Marked for Samat Logvinenko

320 Edition

The Tobol Post

13 Sep 2032
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Shahzod Turopov is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Tobol is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Market

Aibol Beysebekov asks to leave Tobol

“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.

Boardroom

Tobol close the window on a squad of their own making

22 in and 18 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.

Boardroom

Behruz O'ktamov has agreed to leave Tobol for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Squad

Words exchanged at Tobol

Ramazan Kärimov 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.

Boardroom

Tobol counting the cost

The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Tobol now.

Squad

Yurii Vakulko 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.

Squad

Home is on Eko Solomon's mind

“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; Tobol are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

The dugout

Pape-Alioune N'Diaye gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Pape-Alioune N'Diaye is on it.

In brief

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319 Edition

The Tobol Post

6 Sep 2032
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Husain Norchayev

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Tobol have done the hard part with Astana, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Squad

Nikita Kildzhiev signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Nikita Kildzhiev commits to Tobol for another 4 years.

Squad

Words exchanged at Tobol

Asadbek Rahimjonov 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.

Squad

Pape-Alioune N'Diaye 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.

Market

Still no ink between Tobol and Asadbek Rahimjonov

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Tobol, another week without a signature from Asadbek Rahimjonov.

Market

A long bet from Tobol on Samat Logvinenko

He is 20, and nobody at Tobol signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

Squad

Zhasūlan Zhūmashev loses the armband

The captaincy has been taken off Zhasūlan Zhūmashev. Tobol will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.

The dugout

No hiding place for Aibol Beysebekov

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Aibol Beysebekov, and the manager let it.

The dugout

Nurali Islamkhan has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Tobol will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief