Talgat Islamkhan

Left Wingback - Tobol
24 Mar 2029
Saturday
Process

Marked for Talgat Islamkhan

130 Edition

The Tobol Post

22 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

102 days out for Däuren Jūmat after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Tobol will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Squad

Home is on Amine Talal's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Tobol are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Squad

Words exchanged at Tobol

Talgat Islamkhan 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.

In brief

Back issues
124 Edition

The Tobol Post

11 Dec 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Tobol refuse to drop out of the race

Position 3, 45 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Squad

Tempers go at Tobol

Ignacio Cellerino was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Tobol

5 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

Squad

Erkebūlan Seidakhmet needs a bigger stage

He is doing things every Saturday that nobody around him can answer. It is flattering for a season and a problem after that, and Tobol know which stage they are at.

The dugout

Däuren Jūmat gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Däuren Jūmat is on it.

Market

Still no ink between Tobol and Erkebūlan Seidakhmet

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Tobol, another week without a signature from Erkebūlan Seidakhmet.

Squad

Words at Tobol training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Talgat Islamkhan is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Market

No place for Damir Marat in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Damir Marat has his answer from Tobol; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

The dugout

Uroš Milovanović asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief

114 Edition

The Tobol Post

2 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Askhat Tağybergen 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 Tobol this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Román Peralta wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Tobol know it.

Squad

Talgat Islamkhan signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Talgat Islamkhan and Tobol agree another 3 years.

Boardroom

Wages swallow 86% of the Tobol income

Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.

The dugout

Askhat Tağybergen has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Tobol will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Squad

The armband comes off Roman Asrankulov

Tobol will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.

Market

Talks stall between Tobol and Ivan Timoshenko

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

The dugout

Bağdat Qaiyrov knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Bağdat Qaiyrov trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market

The shop window has Miroslav Lobantsev in it

Tobol have let the market know Miroslav Lobantsev can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

In brief