The Giresunspor Gazette
Squad11 Jan 2027
Lucas Villagra keeps Giresunspor in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
No sign of nerves from Bariş Kalaycı at 21 — 8.01
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Bariş Kalaycı did not need any: 8.01, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Market11 Jan 2027
Furkan Kütük 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 Giresunspor can pretend not to have heard.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Bariş Kalaycı is the real thing at 21
A season average of 7.06 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Giresunspor know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.
Match9 Jan 2027
Nobody could stop scoring
6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Giresunspor and Besiktas in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Match9 Jan 2027
A bad afternoon for Giresunspor against Besiktas
2‑4 to Besiktas, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words at Giresunspor training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Braian Miranda 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Arda Kılıç in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Giresunspor this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market11 Jan 2027
Still no ink between Giresunspor and Michael Stickland
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Giresunspor, another week without a signature from Michael Stickland.
In brief
- Player ratings Off the bench and decisive: Paulinho
- Player ratings Franco Romero runs at them all day
- Market Giresunspor bring in Bahadır Güngördü on loan