The Ordabasy Courier
Market10 Aug 2026
Only the photograph left for Guy-Marcelin Kilama
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Guy-Marcelin Kilama will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Ordabasy the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tidiane Keita signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Tidiane Keita and Ordabasy agree another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Ordabasy
Tidiane Keita was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Ordabasy training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Aleksa Amanović is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Door shut on Zhasūlan Zhūmashev
Ordabasy asked and Tobol 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
Timur Kuat steps up from the Ordabasy academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Timur Kuat 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
Ordabasy promote Baurzhan Orazov from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Baurzhan Orazov 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
Ordabasy promote Rinat Tymoshchuk from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Rinat Tymoshchuk 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
David Shavlokhov needs a bigger stage
He is doing things every Saturday that nobody around him can answer. It is flattering for a season and a problem after that, and Ordabasy know which stage they are at.
In brief
- Transfer targets Ordabasy try to borrow Nauryzbek Zhagorov
- The dugout Tidiane Keita knocks on the manager's door