The Irtysh Chronicle
Boardroom8 Mar 2027
Vyacheslav Mitin has until the next board meeting
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Irtysh can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Match8 Mar 2027
Irtysh sink to position 6
12 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Yury Bavin signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Yury Bavin commits to Irtysh for another 2 years.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Alexandr Smirnov 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 Irtysh this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad8 Mar 2027
A row about effort at Irtysh
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Roman Yanushkovskiy was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market8 Mar 2027
Nazar Nekrasov steps up from the Irtysh academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Nazar Nekrasov 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.
Market8 Mar 2027
Irtysh promote Georgy Nesterov from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Georgy Nesterov 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.
Market8 Mar 2027
Fedot Kartashov steps up from the Irtysh academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Fedot Kartashov 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.
Market8 Mar 2027
Gavriil Tikhomirov steps up from the Irtysh academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Gavriil Tikhomirov 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.
In brief
- The dugout Al-Zahri gets it from the manager
- The dugout Yury Bavin without the man who signed him
- The dugout Vitaly Ustinov has become a man the manager trusts