The Zhetysu Post
Squad12 Mar 2029
A fracture rules Askhat Baltabekov out for 84 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Zhetysu will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market12 Mar 2029
Kamil Ibragimov asks to leave Zhetysu
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
The dugout12 Mar 2029
Alexandr Novikov keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Zhetysu may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad12 Mar 2029
Words exchanged at Zhetysu
Kirill Zakharov and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Boardroom12 Mar 2029
5 academy graduates step up at Zhetysu
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Squad12 Mar 2029
Eldiyar Zarypbekov 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.
Market12 Mar 2029
One of our own: Samat Vorogovskiy joins the Zhetysu first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Samat Vorogovskiy is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market12 Mar 2029
Ordabasy Suyumbayev steps up from the Zhetysu academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ordabasy Suyumbayev 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.
Market12 Mar 2029
Zhetysu promote Marat Vorogovskiy from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Marat Vorogovskiy 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.
In brief
- Match Nūrbol Anuarbekov sends Zhetysu past Taraz
- Boardroom Zhetysu let a promise lapse
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Maxim Noskov