The Tobol Post
Market13 Sep 2032
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.
Market13 Sep 2032
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.
Boardroom13 Sep 2032
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.
Boardroom13 Sep 2032
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.
Squad13 Sep 2032
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.
Boardroom13 Sep 2032
Tobol counting the cost
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Tobol now.
Squad13 Sep 2032
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.
Squad13 Sep 2032
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 dugout13 Sep 2032
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
- Market Talks stall between Tobol and Shahzod Turopov
- The dugout No hiding place for Samat Logvinenko
- The dugout The manager makes Nikita Kildzhiev a promise