The Shakhter Gazette
Squad6 Mar 2028
A knee injury of the worst kind for Arman Nusip
149 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Shakhter lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market6 Mar 2028
Uälikhan Mūkhametzhanov hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Shakhter can pretend not to have heard.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Alby Kelly-Heald is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Maksim Galkin stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Maksim Galkin and Shakhter agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Tempers go at Shakhter
Igor' Shatskii 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.
Boardroom6 Mar 2028
Graduation day at Shakhter
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Market6 Mar 2028
Shakhter promote Askhat Tymoshchuk from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Askhat Tymoshchuk 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.
Market6 Mar 2028
Dauren Kuat steps up from the Shakhter academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Dauren Kuat 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
Talgat Logvinenko steps up from the Shakhter academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Talgat Logvinenko 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.