The Kairat Chronicle
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
Nobody could get near Jorginho
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Alexandr Martynovich signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Alexandr Martynovich and Kairat agree another 2 years.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Marc Gual 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 Kairat this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market8 Mar 2027
Kairat promote Yeldos Shomko from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Yeldos Shomko 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.
Squad8 Mar 2027
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.
Loan watch8 Mar 2027
Sherkhan Kalmurza counts the days
“I watch every Kairat game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Tobol runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
Luís Mata was the difference for Kairat
Marked 7.52. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Amir Abedzadeh dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Boardroom8 Mar 2027
No investment in the facilities at Kairat
Nothing about this will be in a press release. A plan went upstairs, came back rejected, and the version of the club that would have existed in three years' time just quietly stopped being possible.