The Ordabasy Courier
Squad19 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Talgat Nuserbayev
19 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Ordabasy lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad19 Oct 2026
The step up is real for Arda Akzhan
At 17 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Ordabasy
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and El'khan Astanov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Nurali Kuat gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
David Abagna knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Ordabasy, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market19 Oct 2026
The Tidiane Keita question follows Ordabasy around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Tidiane Keita’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
In brief
- Market The clock does Guy-Marcelin Kilama’s negotiating for him
- Squad Anatoly Anisimov has settled at Ordabasy