The Taraz Herald
Match17 Mar 2029
No end in sight to Taraz's wait for a win
9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Taraz has to find a result from somewhere.
Market19 Mar 2029
Olzhas Ädil 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 The request is on a desk at Taraz, and it is not being withdrawn.
Boardroom19 Mar 2029
Still nobody in the Taraz dugout
14 days with the chair empty, a list of names that grows and shrinks by the day, and not one signature on anything. Every week that passes takes the best candidates off it.
Squad19 Mar 2029
A row about effort at Taraz
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Sanzhar Satanov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad19 Mar 2029
Yury Petrovskiy 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 Taraz this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match17 Mar 2029
Kairat take the points off Taraz
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout19 Mar 2029
Merei Zhambyl gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad19 Mar 2029
Dauren Logvinenko out for 20 days
The medical room confirms 20 days on the sidelines for Dauren Logvinenko, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
The dugout19 Mar 2029
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑2 defeat, delivered by Aibol Tagybergen to a room that had heard them before.
In brief
- The dugout Zhandos Ömirzaqov knocks on the manager’s door
- Looking ahead Taraz take on the side everybody is chasing
- The dugout Somebody else is better right now than Eskendir Qybyrai