Jadel Katongo

Right Back - Kayserispor
8 Dec 2026
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Jadel Katongo

18 Edition

The Kayserispor Post

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Nowhere to hide for Kayserispor

2‑5 against Gaziantep, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

Match

6 matches without a win for Kayserispor

The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Kayserispor are no longer polite ones.

The dugout

Jadel Katongo keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Kayserispor may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Ruan at 21 — 7.82

The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Ruan did not need any: 7.82, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Match

7 goals as Kayserispor and Gaziantep go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 7 goals between Kayserispor and Gaziantep, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

Boardroom

Doors closed at Kayserispor

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 dugout

Ali Erkin: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 2‑5, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

Squad

5 past Ali Şaşal Vural

Whether it was the goalkeeper or the ten in front of him is the argument that will fill every conversation in town this week. 5 saves does not settle it either way.

Player ratings

Lionel Carole gives it away

There was no pressure on him and nowhere he had to be. Kayserispor lost a goal to a decision that took half a second and will be discussed all week.

In brief

Back issues
10 Edition

The Kayserispor Post

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Tempers go at Kayserispor

Fedor Chalov 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.

Player ratings

One of those days for Fedor Chalov

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.03, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad

Kayserispor are still strangers to each other

8 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

Match

Fedor Chalov rescues a point for Kayserispor

It needed Fedor Chalov to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Antalyaspor, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

The dugout

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.” Ali Erkin chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Mamadi Camará

“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.

The dugout

Furkan Soyalp does not fit this one

Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.

Squad

Fedor Chalov called up by his country

A window away with the national side, and a shirt at Kayserispor that briefly doubles as an advertisement. A call-up flatters the player and the club that built him in the same breath.

Squad

Furkan Soyalp wants to know why he earns less

Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and Kayserispor have no good answer.

In brief

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The Kayserispor Post

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Kayserispor win it in stoppage time

The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 92th minute. Istanbulspor will replay every second of the added time for a week.

Squad

A falling-out at Kayserispor

Fedor Chalov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

Kayserispor find a way past Istanbulspor

Istanbulspor made Kayserispor work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

Miguel Cardoso was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.32. 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 ratings

Ruan beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 16. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The dugout

Ali Erkin: “That is the standard”

“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 2‑1, already talking about the next one.

The dugout

Fernando Corica gets it from the manager

“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.

The dugout

Jadel Katongo 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.

Looking ahead

Burak Kapacak faces his old club

Fenerbahce next, and one man in the Kayserispor dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

In brief