The Serikspor Herald
Boardroom7 Jun 2027
Mehmet Ozcan has until the next board meeting
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Serikspor can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Market7 Jun 2027
Şeref Özcan 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 The request is on a desk at Serikspor, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets7 Jun 2027
Arda Özçimen is a medical away from Serikspor
The deal with Goztepe is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Lev Skvortsov wants to go home
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Serikspor know it.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Raymond Adeola 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 Serikspor this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Real improvement from Mert İsmet Aşıcı at Serikspor
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Mert İsmet Aşıcı is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Rhaldney 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.
Market7 Jun 2027
Raymond Adeola is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Serikspor has been clear about where Raymond Adeola stands, which is more than many ever get.
Market7 Jun 2027
Talks stall between Serikspor and Tokinho Dória
“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.
In brief
- Boardroom Serikspor counting the cost
- The dugout Cengiz Demir has become a man the manager trusts
- The dugout The manager's exit leaves Cengiz Demir exposed