The Shakhter Gazette
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Up for the corner, and Däulet Zainetdinov delivers — 7.50
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Däulet Zainetdinov scored, was marked 7.50, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Market10 Aug 2026
Irtysh come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Shakhter did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Igor' Shatskii in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Shakhter this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Novorizontino tell Shakhter: Pedro Balotelli is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market10 Aug 2026
Shakhter promote Timur Nurgaliev from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Timur Nurgaliev has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Azat Kuat joins the Shakhter first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Azat Kuat is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Shakhter promote Dauren Postnikov from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Dauren Postnikov has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Alexandr Gagloev 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. Shakhter know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Shakhter
5 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
In brief
- Match Däulet Zainetdinov rescues a point for Shakhter
- The dugout The view from the dugout
- The dugout Maxim Martusevich does not fit this one