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Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Jasur Masharipov
73 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Irtysh lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market12 Oct 2026
Damián Bogado 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 Irtysh can pretend not to have heard.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 35 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
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Uneasy
Squad5 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Jasur Masharipov
82 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Irtysh lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 42 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad5 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Irtysh this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Squad
Damián Bogado falls out with a teammate over standards
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Boardroom
Wages eat 110% of everything Irtysh earn
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Uneasy
Squad28 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Jasur Masharipov
89 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Irtysh lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Abzal Taykenov out for 50 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Irtysh will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Irtysh
Damián Bogado 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
Squad21 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Jasur Masharipov
98 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Irtysh lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Abzal Taykenov out for 57 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Irtysh will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad21 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Irtysh this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Uneasy
Squad14 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Jasur Masharipov
105 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Irtysh lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 65 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market14 Sep 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Irtysh can pretend not to have heard.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Irtysh training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Damián Bogado is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Market14 Sep 2026
Atyrau are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Irtysh will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
“I did not go to Ordabasy to sit and watch. I want to come back to Irtysh and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
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Uneasy
Squad7 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Jasur Masharipov
114 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Irtysh lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 76 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market7 Sep 2026
Aktobe come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Irtysh did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market7 Sep 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad7 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Irtysh this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market7 Sep 2026
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Islambek Vorogovskiy has his answer from Irtysh; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
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Uneasy
Squad31 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Jasur Masharipov
121 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Irtysh lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 83 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market31 Aug 2026
Irtysh say no — this time
The offer from Kairat for Aibol Orazov was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market31 Aug 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Irtysh
Damián Bogado 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“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.
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Uneasy
Market24 Aug 2026
Irtysh say no — this time
The offer from Kairat for Azat Tymoshchuk was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market24 Aug 2026
“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 Irtysh, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad24 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Irtysh this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Damián Bogado 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Baurzhan Islamkhan, and the manager let it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
This league is too small for Damián Bogado
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. Irtysh will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
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Crisis
Match12 Aug 2026
Irtysh bow out of the cup
Okzhetpes go through and Irtysh go home, 1‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Market17 Aug 2026
Irtysh say no — this time
The offer from Zhetysu for Rinat Zainutdinov was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Ordabasy Logvinenko, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.02
A mark of 8.02 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad17 Aug 2026
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market17 Aug 2026
The phone has started ringing about Azat Tymoshchuk again, and this time the name on the line is Kairat. Irtysh are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Irtysh
Rinat Zainutdinov 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Irtysh training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Damián Bogado is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Ordabasy Logvinenko has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Aibol Orazov, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Aibol Orazov and Irtysh agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Irtysh
Rinat Zainutdinov 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Irtysh training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Baktiyor Shomko is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad10 Aug 2026
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Irtysh know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
Market10 Aug 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Nurali Baizhanov has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Irtysh.
Market10 Aug 2026
The best deals are the ones the accountants never notice. Meirambek Qalmyrza arrives at Irtysh with his wages the only cost and something to prove the only clause.
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Crisis
Market3 Aug 2026
Lokomotiv come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Irtysh did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
A first appearance Nurbol Postnikov will want to forget — 5.74
Everybody's debut is one of two stories and this was the other one. 5.74, and the only consolation available is that nobody's career has ever been decided by ninety minutes in a shirt he had just been given.
Squad3 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Irtysh this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Baktiyor Shomko 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.
Match1 Aug 2026
Baktiyor Shomko scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Ordabasy, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
A performance of 8.86 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“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.
Market3 Aug 2026
The name of Azat Baizhanov has come up in conversations Irtysh were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Market3 Aug 2026
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Irtysh has been clear about where Serikzhan Tymoshchuk stands, which is more than many ever get.