The Okzhetpes Herald
Market24 Aug 2026
Viktor Ziabko 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 Okzhetpes can pretend not to have heard.
Market24 Aug 2026
Viktor Ziabko has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Okzhetpes they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
Okzhetpes to lose Viktor Ziabko for free
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Viktor Ziabko has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Dmitriy Borodin 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Okzhetpes rebuffed over Jorginho
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Kairat have kept their man, and Okzhetpes go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Okzhetpes try to borrow Talgat Akhmetov
Akzhaiyk have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Islambek Nuserbayev 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 Okzhetpes this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Aibol Orazov
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market24 Aug 2026
The clock does Nūrğaini Böribaev’s negotiating for him
4 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Okzhetpes could ask drops and the wages Nūrğaini Böribaev can ask rise.
In brief
- Market The shop window has Islambek Nuserbayev in it
- The dugout Abzal Suyumbayev knocks on the manager's door
- Squad The training reports on Vladimir Vomenko are not good