Talgat Postnikov

Central Defender - Shakhter
5 Sep 2036
Friday
Process

Marked for Talgat Postnikov

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The Shakhter Gazette

30 Apr 2035
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Karim Mekkaoui damages knee ligaments — 91 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 91 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.

Match

Pavel Popov leads the rout of Taraz

3‑0, and Pavel Popov took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Shakhter tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Squad

Pavel Popov takes the match ball home

3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.

Squad

Words exchanged at Shakhter

Aslan Akhmedov 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.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Pavel Popov at his very best

Marked 9.22. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Shakhter.

Squad

A muscle injury sidelines Talgat Postnikov for 14 days

Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Shakhter will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.

Player ratings

Nothing got past Aslan Akhmedov

16 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Interim Coach kept it short after the 3‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.

The dugout

The form table has caught Timur Logvinenko

Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.

In brief

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The Shakhter Gazette

12 Mar 2035
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Shakhter run riot against Atyrau

3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Squad

Pavel Popov takes the match ball home

3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.

Market

Only the photograph left for Timur Baizhanov

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Timur Baizhanov will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Shakhter the goodbyes have quietly begun.

The dugout

Askhat Baizhanov: 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.” Shakhter have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Boardroom

Interim Coach signs on for the long haul

Shakhter moved before anybody else could: a new deal for Interim Coach, agreed quietly and announced loudly. Boards extend managers for many reasons; the good one is the one this looks like.

Squad

Pavel Popov 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 Shakhter this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

7 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.

Player ratings

Pavel Popov in the eights

A performance of 9.32 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Market

Shakhter promote Erbol Nurgaliev from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Erbol Nurgaliev 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