Marked for Mayed Muhsin
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad30 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Egor Khatkevich out for 53 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Atyrau will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Nabil Jaadi 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 Atyrau this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
Back issues
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Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Egor Khatkevich out for 108 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Atyrau will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market12 Oct 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Atyrau is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Atyrau
Ruslan Yudenkov 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.
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Uneasy
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Atyrau
Ruslan Yudenkov 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The name of Egor Tkachenko has come up in conversations Atyrau were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Newton Adebayo 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The Ian Trufanov conversation is coming
Everyone has stopped pretending: Andijon will make the call about Ian Trufanov this week. Atyrau have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
Squad10 Aug 2026
This league is too small for Nabil Jaadi
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Atyrau will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Market10 Aug 2026
48 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
197 appearances across 14 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Igor Coronado commits to Sharjah for another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Caio Lucas 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Firas Ben Larbi 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
24 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Market3 Aug 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.