Askhat Abiken

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131 Edition

The Shakhter Gazette

29 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad29 Jan 2029

The knee: Rodrigo Rosa out for 68 days

68 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Shakhter lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market29 Jan 2029

Rodrigo Rosa puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Shakhter, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad29 Jan 2029

A falling-out at Shakhter

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

Transfer targets29 Jan 2029

Kairat tell Shakhter: Erkin Tapalov is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Market29 Jan 2029

Eyes on Stanislav Samoilov again

The phone has started ringing about Stanislav Samoilov again, and this time the name on the line is Okzhetpes. Shakhter are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad29 Jan 2029

Dávisson wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Shakhter can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

Market29 Jan 2029

No place for Aleksandr Migunov in the plan

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

Transfer targets29 Jan 2029

A loan move for Zhalğas Zhaqsylyqov is in the works

Shakhter have made the call to Okzhetpes. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Squad29 Jan 2029

Words at Shakhter training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Askhat Abiken 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.

In brief

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128 Edition

The Shakhter Gazette

8 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad8 Jan 2029

Rodrigo Rosa damages knee ligaments — 90 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 90 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad8 Jan 2029

Words exchanged at Shakhter

Dias Qalybaev 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.

Market8 Jan 2029

Askhat Abiken attracts admirers

The name of Askhat Abiken has come up in conversations Shakhter were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

The dugout8 Jan 2029

No hiding place for Maksim Galkin

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Maksim Galkin, and the manager let it.

Squad8 Jan 2029

Words at Shakhter training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sūltan Shymyrkhan 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.

The dugout8 Jan 2029

A promise honoured for Stanislav Samoilov

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Shakhter told Stanislav Samoilov something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

Boardroom8 Jan 2029

$124.1K a year onto the Shakhter books

A new partner, a signature and a photograph nobody will remember. It funds a fortnight of wages, which is more than most headlines on this page can say for themselves.

Squad8 Jan 2029

Jani Atanasov still has not settled

A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Shakhter would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.

Match8 Jan 2029

Continental football is in reach for Shakhter

34 points from position 5. The title is somebody else’s business and the drop is somebody else’s problem; what is left is the argument about passports.

In brief

84 Edition

The Shakhter Gazette

6 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad6 Mar 2028

Igor' Shatskii damages knee ligaments — 57 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 57 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market6 Mar 2028

Diyorbek Mamadaliyev is a Shakhter player again

He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.

Squad6 Mar 2028

Abrorjon Aliyev arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Abrorjon Aliyev has, at Shakhter, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Boardroom6 Mar 2028

5 academy players handed senior numbers at Shakhter

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 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.

Market6 Mar 2028

Shakhter promote Dauren Orazov from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Dauren Orazov 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

Kairat Suyumbayev steps up from the Shakhter academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Kairat 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.

Market6 Mar 2028

One of our own: Askhat Abiken joins the Shakhter first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Askhat Abiken is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Boardroom6 Mar 2028

Shakhter board go back on their word

Something was promised, a deadline passed, and it did not arrive. Trust inside a football club is built over years and spent in an afternoon.

In brief