Stipe Perica

Striker - Ordabasy
6 Sep 2026
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Marked for Stipe Perica

5 Edition

The Neftchi Sentinel

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market31 Aug 2026

Vladimir Jovović agrees terms with Irtysh

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Neftchi people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Market31 Aug 2026

BATE come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Neftchi did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market31 Aug 2026

Bojan Ciger 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 The request is on a desk at Neftchi, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market31 Aug 2026

Zoran Marušić moves on

Qarabag pay $1.1M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Match29 Aug 2026

Neftchi see off Metallurg

Three points for Neftchi, 1‑0 the final word against Metallurg in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Nobody on the pitch touched Alisher Odilov

7.79, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Neftchi had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Too much change too quickly at Neftchi

11 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

The dugout31 Aug 2026

Sherzod Shomurodov: “That is the standard”

“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 1‑0, already talking about the next one.

Looking ahead31 Aug 2026

Neftchi take on the side everybody is chasing

Nasaf arrive as leaders. A side at the top is beaten roughly once a month, and the club that does it gets a week it remembers for a year.

In brief

Back issues
5 Edition

The Ordabasy Courier

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad31 Aug 2026

El'khan Astanov damages knee ligaments — 101 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 101 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.

Market31 Aug 2026

Mutaalim Magomedov hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Ordabasy can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets31 Aug 2026

The paperwork begins on Stipe Perica

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Ordabasy have done the hard part with Neftchi, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Words exchanged at Ordabasy

Everton Moraes 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.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Nikola Antić 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.

The dugout31 Aug 2026

Léo Natel has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Ordabasy will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Market31 Aug 2026

The Léo Natel talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Ordabasy know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Léo Natel 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 Ordabasy would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.

The dugout31 Aug 2026

Sergei Malyi has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Sergei Malyi has written the date down.

In brief