Marked for Edvan
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match20 Feb 2027
No end in sight to Hatayspor's wait for a win
10 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Hatayspor has to find a result from somewhere.
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 28. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Market22 Feb 2027
“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 The request is on a desk at Hatayspor, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Simão Bertelli 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.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Words at Hatayspor training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Edvan 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.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Jacsson wants one last season at home
Every long career reaches the week the last one is thought about. He would like it to be where he started, and Hatayspor know now that the thought has arrived.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Funsho Bamgboye, and the manager let it.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
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Player ratings22 Feb 2027
Maxwell stands above it all
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.83 on the card, and the Hatayspor support went home talking about one name.
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Uneasy
Market4 Jan 2027
“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 The request is on a desk at Hatayspor, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market4 Jan 2027
Giresunspor come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Hatayspor did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Edvan pulls a muscle — 14 days out
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 14 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
Match2 Jan 2027
The wait goes on for Hatayspor
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Hatayspor
Simão Bertelli and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Home is on Jacsson's mind
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Hatayspor are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
Hatayspor asked and Besiktas said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market4 Jan 2027
Add another name to the list: Giresunspor have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Taylan Özgün. The answer from Hatayspor has not changed — yet.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Words at Hatayspor training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jacsson 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.
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Uneasy
Squad23 Nov 2026
7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Match21 Nov 2026
The wait goes on for Hatayspor
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad23 Nov 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 Hatayspor this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Jacsson 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.
The dugout23 Nov 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.
Match21 Nov 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Kerem Kokcu chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Somebody else is better right now than Jacsson
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 12. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
In brief
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The dugout
Maxwell asks for a word with the manager
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Squad
Edvan speaks, and the room listens
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Player ratings
Musa Danjuma on a tightrope all afternoon
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Crisis
Squad16 Nov 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 12 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match14 Nov 2026
Chastening afternoon for Hatayspor
A 1‑4 beating by Fenerbahce was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Simão Bertelli and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Jacsson 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.
Boardroom16 Nov 2026
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Kerem Kokcu after 1‑4, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Prince Ating, and the manager let it.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Jacsson dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
In brief
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Player ratings
Maxwell runs at them all day
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Squad
The room hears from Edvan
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Player ratings
The referee tires of Musa Danjuma
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Uneasy
Match24 Oct 2026
10 matches without a win, and then this, against Ankaragucu. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.
Squad26 Oct 2026
6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Squad26 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 Hatayspor this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Hatayspor
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Edvan was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The terraces26 Oct 2026
He is 19 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Match24 Oct 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Funsho Bamgboye’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Hatayspor.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Ninety minutes of Funsho Bamgboye at his very best
Marked 8.03. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Hatayspor.
Squad26 Oct 2026
100 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
In brief
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The dugout
A satisfied Kerem Kokcu
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The dugout
The manager makes an example of Vefa Temel
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The dugout
Somebody else is better right now than Jacsson
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Crisis
Squad19 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 11 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match17 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Hatayspor
10 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Emir Dadük is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
A hand in 2 of them from Maxwell — 7.63
Marked 7.63. There is a kind of forward whose value only shows up when you count what he was involved in rather than what he finished, and this is the day that argument makes itself.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Simão Bertelli and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match17 Oct 2026
2‑3 to Konyaspor, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Hatayspor
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Edvan was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Taylan Özgün was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.16. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Match17 Oct 2026
Conceding is one thing; the response is what tells you about a dressing room. Maxwell had Hatayspor level again within 1 minutes, and Konyaspor never got to play with a lead at all.
In brief
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The dugout
No hiding place for Baran Sarka
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The dugout
Kerem Kokcu: “No excuses”
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The dugout
Edvan is still being punished for one mistake
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Crisis
Squad14 Sep 2026
There were 11 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Chastening afternoon for Hatayspor
A 0‑4 beating by Besiktas was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Match12 Sep 2026
No end in sight to Hatayspor's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Hatayspor has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Hatayspor
Simão Bertelli and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match12 Sep 2026
No clean sheets in sight for Hatayspor
5 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Edvan 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 targets14 Sep 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market14 Sep 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Sinan Yildirim is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Ali Yıldız and Hatayspor agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
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Crisis
Squad7 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 15 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match5 Sep 2026
Nowhere to hide for Hatayspor
0‑5 against Galatasaray, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Market7 Sep 2026
Taylan Özgün 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 Hatayspor can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Hatayspor close the window on a squad of their own making
25 in and 0 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Hatayspor had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Napoli, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Match5 Sep 2026
4 matches without a win for Hatayspor
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Hatayspor are no longer polite ones.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Simão Bertelli 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Edvan 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 targets7 Sep 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
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Crisis
Match15 Aug 2026
0‑7 to Basaksehir, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Hatayspor have gone to Atlanta United FC with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Everything agreed with Istanbulspor, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Hatayspor
Simão Bertelli and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
An offer of $36.0K for Eren Yağmur
Hatayspor have gone to Konyaspor with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Match15 Aug 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 7 goals between Hatayspor and Basaksehir, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Edvan
“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.