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Edition
The Kairat Chronicle
24 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad24 Jan 2028
Words exchanged at Kairat
Aleksandr Mrynskii 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.
The dugout24 Jan 2028
Branimir Kalaica has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Kairat 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.
The dugout24 Jan 2028
Dias Qalybaev has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Dias Qalybaev has written the date down.
In brief
- Market Ismail Bekbolat linked with a move away
- Squad Lev Kurgin finally belongs at Kairat
- Squad Ivan Bašić is training like a man with a point to make
- Squad Ordabasy Postnikov is fit again