Askhat Postnikov

Right Forward - Tobol U18
5 Feb 2029
Monday
Process

Marked for Askhat Postnikov

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The Tobol Post

3 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Transfer targets

Fee done, terms next for Zhansūltan Mūkhametzhanov

Tobol and Okzhetpes have settled on $850.0K. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.

Market

Amine Talal has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Tobol they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

The dugout

Askhat Postnikov: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Tobol have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Match

Nobody wins at Tobol

11 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.

Match

Tobol end the wait against Atyrau

It had gone 7 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.

Transfer targets

An offer of $98.0K for Ordabasy Orazov

Tobol have gone to Shakhter with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Transfer targets

Tobol baulk at the price for Uroš Ćuk

Kairat wanted more than $41.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Squad

Askhat Tağybergen signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Askhat Tağybergen commits to Tobol for another 2 years.

Squad

Words exchanged at Tobol

Askhat Tağybergen 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

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The Tobol Post

15 May 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

A brace, and Victor Gidado takes the afternoon — 9.03

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Victor Gidado provided it, and the 9.03 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Match

Still nobody has beaten Tobol

The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad

A falling-out at Tobol

Ugochukwu Iwu and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Victor Gidado

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match

Tobol see off Astana

Three points for Tobol, 2‑0 the final word against Astana in a contest settled by the finer margins.

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

Marko Vukčević 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.

Squad

7 new faces, and Tobol are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

The dugout

Azat Dosmagambetov: “That is the standard”

“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 2‑0, already talking about the next one.

In brief