The Kairat Chronicle
Market10 Aug 2026
Terms done: Jorginho is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Qarabag waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Kairat is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Loizos Loizou turns down Kairat
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Crvena Zvezda keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Luís Mata has agreed to leave Kairat for nothing
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Marc Gual stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Marc Gual and Kairat agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Door shut on Cayetano Bolzán
Kairat asked and Gimnasia La Plata said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Alexandr Martynovich 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.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Kairat agree a free transfer for Ivan Bašić
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
Market10 Aug 2026
Talgat Orazov steps up from the Kairat academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Talgat Orazov 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Yeldos Islamkhan steps up from the Kairat academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Yeldos Islamkhan 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
- Market One of our own: Azat Postnikov joins the Kairat first team
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Temirlan Anarbekov
- Squad Temirlan Anarbekov lets one through his hands