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12 Edition

The 1. Lig Gazette

1 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

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Tosin Kehinde has said yes to Rivers United

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Bandirmaspor have lost him in all but the paperwork.

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Adama Traoré asks to leave Genclerbirligi

“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.

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Antalyaspor turn down Trabzonspor for Nikola Storm

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

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11 Edition

The 1. Lig Gazette

1 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

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Nobody scored more than Gift Orban

The month closes with Gift Orban out in front — 7 goals in 4 games, and TSG Hoffenheim have the division's most feared finisher.

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Player of the month: Gift Orban — 8.57

Everybody in the division was measured and a TSG Hoffenheim man came out on top: 8.57 across the month and 7 goal contributions. There is no serious case for anybody else.

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The division's brightest kid this month plays for Shakhtar

Lucas Ferreira was marked 7.69 and had a hand in 3 goals. Every recruitment department in the country now has a file open, and the club that has him knows exactly what that means.

Market

Yassine Benrahou asks to leave Manisa FK

“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.

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The division’s top provider is Zdravko Dimitrov — 7.48

3 assists across the month from a Amedspor player marked 7.48. Somebody has to open the door before anybody walks through it, and nobody in the league opened more.

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Highest marks in the league belong to a TSG Hoffenheim man

Gift Orban averaged 8.57 over 4 appearances. Nothing about that will trend, and anybody who watched all four games would tell you it was the most accurate thing on this page.

Market

Eren Elmalı wants more than Antalyaspor are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

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Rey Manaj makes the list

4 appearances, 4 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.

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Cheikne Sylla up among the month's scorers

A productive month at Erzurumspor — 3 goals from 3 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.

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Still scoring: Matheus Machado

3 in 4 for Boluspor. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.

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Lucas Ferreira is right behind him

3 goals in 3 appearances for Shakhtar, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.

Market

Paulo Victor is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Alanyaspor has been clear about where Paulo Victor stands, which is more than many ever get.

10 Edition

The 1. Lig Gazette

1 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

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Nobody scored more than Gift Orban

The month closes with Gift Orban out in front — 9 goals in 4 games, and Amedspor have the division's most feared finisher.

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Player of the month: Gift Orban — 8.97

Everybody in the division was measured and a Amedspor man came out on top: 8.97 across the month and 9 goal contributions. There is no serious case for anybody else.

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Yılmaz Cin is the month's best young player — 6.98

The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 6.98 over the month and 2 goal contributions, from a Hatayspor player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.

Market

Chandrel Massanga asks to leave Hatayspor

“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.

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Altar Hidayetoğlu leads the division for assists — 7.45

The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 5 of them made by a Esenler Erokspor player marked 7.45, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.

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Highest marks in the league belong to a Amedspor man

Gift Orban averaged 8.97 over 4 appearances. Nothing about that will trend, and anybody who watched all four games would tell you it was the most accurate thing on this page.

Market

Tsunami has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Igdir FK can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Market

Emre Koyuncu is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Pendikspor is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

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Pape Habib Guèye is right behind him

4 goals in 4 appearances for Manisa FK, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.

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Rey Manaj keeps the pressure on

4 goals in 4 appearances for Sivasspor leave him among the month's leading marksmen.

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Ahmed Kutucu up among the month's scorers

A productive month at Serikspor — 4 goals from 4 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.

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Cheikne Sylla keeps the pressure on

3 goals in 4 appearances for Erzurumspor leave him among the month's leading marksmen.

9 Edition

The 1. Lig Gazette

1 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

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Rey Manaj is the division’s leading scorer

5 goals in 3 games, and nobody else in the league close to it. Sivasspor have the man every defence in the division is planning around.

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Player of the month: Rey Manaj — 8.47

Everybody in the division was measured and a Sivasspor man came out on top: 8.47 across the month and 5 goal contributions. There is no serious case for anybody else.

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Zaid Seha is the month's best young player — 7.10

The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 7.10 over the month and 1 goal contributions, from a Adana Demirspor player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.

Market

Ertuğrul Çetin 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 Esenler Erokspor, and it is not being withdrawn.

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Nobody made more than Umut Erdem this month

3 assists, 7.23, and a Manisa FK player who spent four weekends being the reason somebody else's name went in the paper. It is the least-rewarded skill in football and the easiest one to notice its absence.

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Rey Manaj is the division's best-marked player — 8.47

The chart that catches everybody a goal tally never will: the centre-half who was immense for four weekends, the holding midfielder nobody outside his own ground has heard of. 8.47 across 3 matches for Sivasspor.

Market

Ali Akman has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Keciorengucu they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Market

Serikspor may not be able to give Rhaldney what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Rhaldney wants continental football; whether Serikspor can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

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Still scoring: Pape Habib Guèye

3 in 3 for Manisa FK. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.

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Melih Bostan keeps the pressure on

2 goals in 3 appearances for Sakaryaspor leave him among the month's leading marksmen.

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Loïs Diony up among the month's scorers

A productive month at Manisa FK — 2 goals from 3 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.

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Gift Orban up among the month's scorers

A productive month at Amedspor — 3 goals from 3 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.

8 Edition

The 1. Lig Gazette

1 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Scoring charts

Nobody scored more than Gift Orban

The month closes with Gift Orban out in front — 5 goals in 4 games, and Amedspor have the division's most feared finisher.

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The month belonged to Gift Orban

Marked 8.18 across it, 6 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Amedspor have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.

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Young player of the month: Deniz Dilmen — 6.75

6.75 across the month and 0 goal contributions from a Pendikspor player everybody else in the division now has a file on. His price rose this month without anybody at his club lifting a finger.

Market

Ali Akman agrees terms with Vanspor

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

Market

Diogo Vítor 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 Pendikspor can pretend not to have heard.

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Nobody made more than Martín Rodríguez this month

2 assists, 7.37, and a Erzurumspor player who spent four weekends being the reason somebody else's name went in the paper. It is the least-rewarded skill in football and the easiest one to notice its absence.

Market

Vanspor turn down SJK for Santeri Hostikka

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

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Best marks in the division for Gift Orban — 8.18

8.18 on average across 4 matches for Amedspor. The chart that notices the players a goal tally never does, and this month it noticed him.

Market

Jorge wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

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Dorgéles Néné keeps the pressure on

3 goals in 3 appearances for Adana Demirspor leave him among the month's leading marksmen.

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Mame Thiam is right behind him

3 goals in 4 appearances for Corum FK, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.

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Rey Manaj keeps the pressure on

3 goals in 4 appearances for Sivasspor leave him among the month's leading marksmen.

7 Edition

The 1. Lig Gazette

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

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Matheus Machado tops the scoring charts

Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 7 goals in 6 appearances for Boluspor.

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Player of the month: Matheus Machado — 8.09

Everybody in the division was measured and a Boluspor man came out on top: 8.09 across the month and 7 goal contributions. There is no serious case for anybody else.

Market

Raymond Adeola has said yes to Kocaelispor

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Serikspor have lost him in all but the paperwork.

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The division's brightest kid this month plays for Sivasspor

Emirhan Başyiğit was marked 7.23 and had a hand in 1 goals. Every recruitment department in the country now has a file open, and the club that has him knows exactly what that means.

Market

Rhaldney 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 Serikspor can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Universitatea Craiova come back empty-handed

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

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Nobody made more than Cameron Lancaster this month

4 assists, 7.47, and a Vanspor player who spent four weekends being the reason somebody else's name went in the paper. It is the least-rewarded skill in football and the easiest one to notice its absence.

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Best marks in the division for Loïs Diony — 8.39

8.39 on average across 4 matches for Manisa FK. The chart that notices the players a goal tally never does, and this month it noticed him.

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Rey Manaj keeps the pressure on

4 goals in 6 appearances for Sivasspor leave him among the month's leading marksmen.

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Oğulcan Çağlayan makes the list

6 appearances, 4 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.

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Gökdeniz Bayrakdar makes the list

5 appearances, 5 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.

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Loïs Diony keeps the pressure on

5 goals in 4 appearances for Manisa FK leave him among the month's leading marksmen.

6 Edition

The 1. Lig Gazette

1 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

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Nobody scored more than Gift Orban

The month closes with Gift Orban out in front — 4 goals in 4 games, and Amedspor have the division's most feared finisher.

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Rey Manaj is the division's player of the month — 7.81

A club's paper reports this as one of its own being honoured. On this page it is what it actually is: a verdict on everybody who played, and it went to a Sivasspor man on 7.81 with 4 goal contributions.

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Deniz Dilmen is the month's best young player — 6.74

The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 6.74 over the month and 0 goal contributions, from a Pendikspor player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.

Market

Nailson asks to leave Keciorengucu

“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.

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The division’s top provider is Emeka Eze — 7.51

4 assists across the month from a Corum FK player marked 7.51. Somebody has to open the door before anybody walks through it, and nobody in the league opened more.

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Gift Orban is the division's best-marked player — 7.99

The chart that catches everybody a goal tally never will: the centre-half who was immense for four weekends, the holding midfielder nobody outside his own ground has heard of. 7.99 across 4 matches for Amedspor.

Market

Tsunami has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Igdir FK can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

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Mame Thiam is right behind him

3 goals in 4 appearances for Corum FK, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.

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Rey Manaj is right behind him

3 goals in 4 appearances for Sivasspor, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.

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Loïs Diony up among the month's scorers

A productive month at Manisa FK — 2 goals from 4 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.

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Cheikne Sylla is right behind him

3 goals in 4 appearances for Erzurumspor, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.

Market

Dijlan Aydın told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Dijlan Aydın has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Istanbulspor.

5 Edition

The 1. Lig Gazette

1 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

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Rey Manaj tops the scoring charts

Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 4 goals in 3 appearances for Sivasspor.

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The month belonged to Rey Manaj

Marked 8.10 across it, 4 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Sivasspor have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.

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Emirhan Başyiğit is the month's best young player — 7.72

The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 7.72 over the month and 3 goal contributions, from a Sivasspor player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.

Market

Wellington Nascimento asks to leave Keciorengucu

“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.

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Fodé Koita leads the division for assists — 7.32

The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 4 of them made by a Igdir FK player marked 7.32, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.

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Highest marks in the league belong to a Bodrum FK man

Ali Habeşoğlu averaged 8.50 over 2 appearances. Nothing about that will trend, and anybody who watched all four games would tell you it was the most accurate thing on this page.

Market

Rhaldney has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Serikspor can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

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Still scoring: Fernando Andrade

2 in 3 for Erzurumspor. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.

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Francis Ezeh up among the month's scorers

A productive month at Keciorengucu — 3 goals from 3 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.

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Ahmed Kutucu makes the list

3 appearances, 3 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.

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Ali Habeşoğlu is right behind him

3 goals in 2 appearances for Bodrum FK, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.

Market

Atalay Babacan told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Atalay Babacan has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Umraniyespor.

4 Edition

The 1. Lig Gazette

1 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

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Nobody scored more than Gift Orban

The month closes with Gift Orban out in front — 10 goals in 4 games, and Amedspor have the division's most feared finisher.

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Gift Orban is the division's player of the month — 9.05

A club's paper reports this as one of its own being honoured. On this page it is what it actually is: a verdict on everybody who played, and it went to a Amedspor man on 9.05 with 10 goal contributions.

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The division's brightest kid this month plays for Pendikspor

Deniz Dilmen was marked 7.02 and had a hand in 0 goals. Every recruitment department in the country now has a file open, and the club that has him knows exactly what that means.

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Dia Saba leads the division for assists — 7.31

The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 4 of them made by a Amedspor player marked 7.31, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.

Market

Erkan Kaş 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 Corum FK can pretend not to have heard.

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Gift Orban is the division's best-marked player — 9.05

The chart that catches everybody a goal tally never will: the centre-half who was immense for four weekends, the holding midfielder nobody outside his own ground has heard of. 9.05 across 4 matches for Amedspor.

Market

Mattheus Oliveira wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

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Rey Manaj is right behind him

4 goals in 3 appearances for Sivasspor, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.

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Still scoring: Yassine Benrahou

3 in 4 for Manisa FK. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.

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Oğulcan Çağlayan makes the list

4 appearances, 2 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.

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Ahmed Kutucu up among the month's scorers

A productive month at Serikspor — 3 goals from 4 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.

Market

Fatih Tultak told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Fatih Tultak has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Istanbulspor.

3 Edition

The 1. Lig Gazette

1 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

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Nobody scored more than Mame Thiam

The month closes with Mame Thiam out in front — 6 goals in 3 games, and Corum FK have the division's most feared finisher.

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Mame Thiam is the division's player of the month — 8.71

A club's paper reports this as one of its own being honoured. On this page it is what it actually is: a verdict on everybody who played, and it went to a Corum FK man on 8.71 with 6 goal contributions.

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Young player of the month: Marcos Gómez — 7.72

7.72 across the month and 3 goal contributions from a Sariyer player everybody else in the division now has a file on. His price rose this month without anybody at his club lifting a finger.

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Alp Tutar 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 Istanbulspor can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Igdir FK say no — this time

The offer from Konyaspor for Robin Yalçın 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.

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Ibrahim Zubariu leads the division for assists — 7.42

The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 4 of them made by a Corum FK player marked 7.42, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.

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Arda Çolak says no to Vanspor

“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Arda Çolak had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.

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The Kocaelispor deal is off

Everything was agreed until it was not, and Naby Oularé reports back to Vanspor with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.

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Mame Thiam is the division's best-marked player — 8.71

The chart that catches everybody a goal tally never will: the centre-half who was immense for four weekends, the holding midfielder nobody outside his own ground has heard of. 8.71 across 3 matches for Corum FK.

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Still scoring: Taulant Seferi

3 in 3 for Bodrum FK. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.

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Loïs Diony keeps the pressure on

4 goals in 3 appearances for Manisa FK leave him among the month's leading marksmen.

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Aarón Suárez up among the month's scorers

A productive month at Igdir FK — 3 goals from 3 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.

2 Edition

The 1. Lig Gazette

1 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

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Rey Manaj tops the scoring charts

Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 4 goals in 3 appearances for Sivasspor.

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The month belonged to Rey Manaj

Marked 8.60 across it, 5 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Sivasspor have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.

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Young player of the month: Deniz Dilmen — 6.60

6.60 across the month and 0 goal contributions from a Pendikspor player everybody else in the division now has a file on. His price rose this month without anybody at his club lifting a finger.

Market

Ertuğrul Çetin asks to leave Esenler Erokspor

“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.

Market

Bloemfontein Celtic come back empty-handed

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

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Terms done: Süleyman Luş is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Adana Demirspor waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Keciorengucu is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

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Nobody made more than Valon Ethemi this month

3 assists, 7.51, and a Sivasspor player who spent four weekends being the reason somebody else's name went in the paper. It is the least-rewarded skill in football and the easiest one to notice its absence.

Market

Geraldo turns Esenler Erokspor down

“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.

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Highest marks in the league belong to a Sivasspor man

Rey Manaj averaged 8.60 over 3 appearances. Nothing about that will trend, and anybody who watched all four games would tell you it was the most accurate thing on this page.

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Still scoring: Hamza Čataković

3 in 3 for Esenler Erokspor. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.

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Mame Thiam is right behind him

2 goals in 3 appearances for Corum FK, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.

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Loïs Diony makes the list

3 appearances, 3 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.

1 Edition

The 1. Lig Gazette

1 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

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Nobody at Amedspor has picked up the phone to Dia Saba

11 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.

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Arda Çolak told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Arda Çolak has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Igdir FK.

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Rey Manaj linked with a move away

The name of Rey Manaj keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Sivasspor say nothing, which says plenty.