The Kairat Chronicle
Squad10 Jul 2028
A knee injury of the worst kind for Vladyslav Naumets
122 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Kairat lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market10 Jul 2028
Marat Akhmetov has said yes to Taraz
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Kairat have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Player ratings10 Jul 2028
Jorginho runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 29. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad10 Jul 2028
Words exchanged at Kairat
Marc Gual 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.
Match8 Jul 2028
Rubin Hebaj sends Kairat past Atyrau
It finished 1‑0, and it was Rubin Hebaj’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Kairat.
Squad10 Jul 2028
Damir Qasabūlat 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.
Player ratings10 Jul 2028
One of those days for Marc Gual
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.00, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Market10 Jul 2028
The Askhat Postnikov conversation is coming
Everyone has stopped pretending: Akzhaiyk will make the call about Askhat Postnikov this week. Kairat have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
The dugout10 Jul 2028
Baurzhan Tagybergen has his say
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Baurzhan Tagybergen on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
In brief
- The dugout Jorginho has become a man the manager trusts
- The dugout Ädilet Sadybekov knocks on the manager's door
- Boardroom $20.0K lands at Kairat thanks to Roman Akbashev