The Aktobe Courier
Market10 Aug 2026
Terms done: Talğat Kusiapov is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Akzhaiyk waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Aktobe is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Oscar Martinez due for a Aktobe medical
Everything agreed with La Equidad, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Bruno Costa will not be coming to Aktobe
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Brasil de Pelotas is saying, and nobody at Aktobe is enjoying the guessing.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Pablo Álvarez 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 Aktobe this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Door shut on Shola Ogundana
Aktobe asked and Dynamo Kyiv said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market10 Aug 2026
Nurbol Beysebekov steps up from the Aktobe academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Nurbol Beysebekov has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Askhat Vorogovskiy joins the Aktobe first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Askhat Vorogovskiy 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
One of our own: Islambek Tymoshchuk joins the Aktobe first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Islambek Tymoshchuk is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Jani Atanasov
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
In brief
- Squad This league is too small for Yegor Baburin
- The dugout Daniel Sosah is still paying for one afternoon at Aktobe
- Player ratings Erkebūlan Seidakhmet beats them one at a time