Gafurzhan Akhmetov

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Marked for Gafurzhan Akhmetov

4 Edition

The Aktobe Courier

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match19 Aug 2026

The small margins put Aktobe out

Out, 0‑2 to Tobol, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Market24 Aug 2026

Talğat Kusiapov hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Aktobe can pretend not to have heard.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Pibe

Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market24 Aug 2026

Aktobe turn down Tobol for Ädilkhan Taňzharyqov

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Transfer targets24 Aug 2026

El Mehdi Maouhoub turns down Aktobe

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Dinamo Moscow keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Transfer targets24 Aug 2026

Too dear: Aktobe walk away from Ivan Bašić

$210.0K was the most the club would pay and Astana were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Transfer targets24 Aug 2026

Door shut on Zhasūlan Zhūmashev

Aktobe 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.

The dugout24 Aug 2026

The manager makes an example of Pablo Álvarez

“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.

The dugout24 Aug 2026

Askhat Akhmetov: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The Aktobe Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

Loizos Loizou will not be coming to Aktobe

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Crvena Zvezda is saying, and nobody at Aktobe is enjoying the guessing.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Giorgi Zaria 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 targets17 Aug 2026

Aktobe rebuffed over Jorginho

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Kairat have kept their man, and Aktobe go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market17 Aug 2026

Ordabasy join the queue for Talğat Kusiapov

Add another name to the list: Ordabasy have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Talğat Kusiapov. The answer from Aktobe has not changed — yet.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

Aktobe ask about El Mehdi Maouhoub

A loan enquiry to Dinamo Moscow: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

A loan move for Yurii Vakulko is in the works

Aktobe have made the call to Ordabasy. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Market17 Aug 2026

The shop window has Nani in it

Aktobe have let the market know Nani can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

Market17 Aug 2026

Talğat Kusiapov runs his contract down

5 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Aktobe money.

The dugout17 Aug 2026

Gafurzhan Akhmetov asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief

2 Edition

The Aktobe Courier

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market10 Aug 2026

Okzhetpes come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Aktobe did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market10 Aug 2026

Ädilkhan Taňzharyqov is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Aktobe is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Galymzhan Kenzhebek turns down Aktobe

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Akhmat Grozny keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Boardroom10 Aug 2026

Ädilkhan Taňzharyqov signs for Astana while still at Aktobe

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Ädilkhan Taňzharyqov has agreed terms with Astana for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Words exchanged at Aktobe

Giorgi Zaria 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.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Neman tell Aktobe: Guljigit Borubaev 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

Aktobe promote Gafurzhan Akhmetov from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Gafurzhan Akhmetov 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: Nurbol Abiken joins the Aktobe first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Nurbol Abiken is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Stanislav Kritsyuk 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 Aktobe know which stage they are at.

In brief