İzzet Çelik

Central Midfielder - Alanyaspor
18 Sep 2026
Friday
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Marked for İzzet Çelik

6 Edition

The Alanyaspor Gazette

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market7 Sep 2026

Gaïus Makouta 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 Alanyaspor can pretend not to have heard.

Market7 Sep 2026

İzzet Çelik turns Umraniyespor 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.

Boardroom7 Sep 2026

Deadline passes with 13 signed and 2 gone

That is the business done at Alanyaspor until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Tempers go at Alanyaspor

Ruan 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.

Transfer targets7 Sep 2026

The window shuts on the Georgy Djikia deal

Alanyaspor ran out of time with Antalyaspor. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.

Squad7 Sep 2026

A month that belonged to Ruan

The young player of the month award goes to a 21-year-old at Alanyaspor who has looked like the finished article for four weekends running. The next four are the ones that decide whether he is.

The dugout7 Sep 2026

No hiding place for Meschack Elia

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Meschack Elia, and the manager let it.

Squad7 Sep 2026

A step back for Paolo Fernandes at Alanyaspor

Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Hwang Ui-Jo calls time on his country

“62 caps was 62 more than the boy who started ever expected.” At 34 he has stepped away from the national side and has not stepped away from Alanyaspor.

In brief

Back issues
5 Edition

The Alanyaspor Gazette

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market31 Aug 2026

Maestro moves on

Sivasspor pay $6.3M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Ruan, 21, steals the show — 7.95

Marked 7.95 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

The terraces31 Aug 2026

Supporters turn on the $6.3M sale of Maestro

He is going to Sivasspor, the club has $6.3M it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.

Market31 Aug 2026

Alanyaspor say no — this time

The offer from Istanbulspor for İzzet Çelik 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.

Transfer targets31 Aug 2026

Too dear: Alanyaspor walk away from Rayyan Baniya

$240.0K was the most the club would pay and Konyaspor were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Match29 Aug 2026

Nicolas Janvier the difference as Alanyaspor beat Umraniyespor

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Nicolas Janvier. 3‑1 against Umraniyespor, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

The terraces31 Aug 2026

One of their own: Ruan

He is 21 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.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Nicolas Janvier was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.35. 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.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

One of those days for Ianis Hagi

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.27, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

In brief

  • Squad 5 new faces, and Alanyaspor are still learning each other
  • The dugout The view from the dugout
  • The dugout Meschack Elia knocks on the manager's door