The Irtysh Chronicle
Squad10 Aug 2026
Patryk Klimek gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Patryk Klimek has just signed for Irtysh, and for once the answer mattered.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Artemy Maleev, 35, rolls back the years — 8.02
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.02 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
$39.0K settles it between the clubs for Georgy Makarov
Dinamo St Petersburg have accepted the money. What Irtysh do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Aznaur Geryugov pops up at the right end — 7.69
7.69, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Kouakou Adou signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Kouakou Adou commits to Irtysh for another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Irtysh
Alexandr Smirnov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Irtysh training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Roman Yanushkovskiy 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.
Match8 Aug 2026
Aznaur Geryugov the difference as Irtysh beat Dinamo Vladivostok
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Aznaur Geryugov. 2‑1 against Dinamo Vladivostok, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Aleksandr Bessonov joins the Irtysh first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Aleksandr Bessonov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Vsevolod Gusev joins the Irtysh first team
- Market Irtysh promote Miroslav Kombarov from within
- Market One of our own: Artyom Gorbachev joins the Irtysh first team