Following this development, Beşiktaş took 3 players from Kazakhstan on its radar. It was recorded that the black-and-whites camped in Astana and watched Bakhtiyor Zaynutdinov, Arman Kenesov and Elkhan Astanov. Zaynutdinov, who plays for CSKA Moscow, is at the top of the list. The 25-year-old number ten scored 12 goals in 30 games.