The Aktobe Courier
Squad6 Mar 2028
A fracture rules Alexandr Zuev out for 51 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Aktobe will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Transfer targets6 Mar 2028
Igor' Trofimets turns down Aktobe
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: another club keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Market6 Mar 2028
Vitalii Laturnus’s move to Shakhter falls through
The deal that would have taken Vitalii Laturnus to Shakhter has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Aktobe with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Ivan Ordets signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ivan Ordets commits to Aktobe for another 2 years.
Boardroom6 Mar 2028
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Aktobe
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Tempers go at Aktobe
Ivan Ordets 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.
Squad6 Mar 2028
A row about effort at Aktobe
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Agustín Pignotta was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market6 Mar 2028
Timur Postnikov steps up from the Aktobe academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Timur Postnikov 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.
Market6 Mar 2028
Aktobe promote Talgat Suyumbayev from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Talgat Suyumbayev 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
- Market Nurali Beysebekov steps up from the Aktobe academy
- The dugout Erkebūlan Seidakhmet has become a man the manager trusts
- The dugout Rubin Hebaj asks for a word with the manager