The Shakhter Gazette
Squad3 Aug 2026
10 saves: Igor' Shatskii was the team
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 10 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Market3 Aug 2026
Baltika come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Shakhter did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Igor' Shatskii stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Igor' Shatskii and Shakhter agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Shakhter
Igor' Shatskii 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
Bohdan Savkiv 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 targets3 Aug 2026
Shakhter rebuffed over Javohir Husanov
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Kokand 1912 have kept their man, and Shakhter go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market3 Aug 2026
Irtysh watching Sūltan Shymyrkhan
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Shakhter have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Market3 Aug 2026
Talks stall between Shakhter and Arman Nusip
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Market3 Aug 2026
Nobody at Shakhter has picked up the phone to Rifat Nurmugamet
36 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
In brief
- Transfer targets A loan move for Po'latxo'ja Xoldorxonov is in the works
- Transfer targets A loan move for Asilbek Jumayev is in the works
- The dugout Dauren Murtazaev: “We have to be better”