The Kairat Chronicle
Squad12 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Kairat
Marc Gual and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market12 Oct 2026
Rinat Baizhanov steps up from the Kairat academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Rinat Baizhanov 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
One of our own: Ordabasy Shomko joins the Kairat first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ordabasy Shomko is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Erkin Tapalov 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Kairat count the cost of losing Baurzhan Kuat
14 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
No hiding place for Baurzhan Akhmetov
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Baurzhan Akhmetov, and the manager let it.
In brief
- Market The Marc Gual story refuses to die
- Squad Alexandr Martynovich goes off with his country
- The dugout Olzhas Baibek keeps his manager's vote