Marked for Salih Malkoçoğlu
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Uneasy
Squad21 Dec 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 25 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match19 Dec 2026
7 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.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad21 Dec 2026
“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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Osman Kaynak 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.
Match19 Dec 2026
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Kayserispor? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
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Uneasy
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 43. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Ali Şaşal Vural out for 49 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Adana Demirspor will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match28 Nov 2026
No end in sight to Adana Demirspor's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Adana Demirspor has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad30 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 Adana Demirspor this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad30 Nov 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Salih Malkoçoğlu's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Squad30 Nov 2026
One booking too many, and Fatih Aksoy sits out. Adana Demirspor lose him for the sort of avoidable reason that makes a manager's week longer.
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Steady
Squad9 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Ali Şaşal Vural out for 72 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Adana Demirspor will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
The terraces9 Nov 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Gökdeniz Gürpüz has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Ninety minutes of Gökhan Sazdağı at his very best
Marked 8.24. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Adana Demirspor.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Yusuf Demirkıran 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 ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad9 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Osman Kaynak
“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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
He was not in the side at half past three and he had settled it before five. Half an hour, and Adana Demirspor had a different afternoon.
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Steady
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Edin Višća, 36, rolls back the years — 7.85
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.85 at 36, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Match31 Oct 2026
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Trabzonspor did not have in the autumn.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Mustafa Eskihellaç 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at Trabzonspor training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tony Nwakaeme 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.
Loan watch2 Nov 2026
“I watch every Trabzonspor game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Adana Demirspor runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
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Crisis
Squad26 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 87 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Fatih Aksoy goes up and wins it — 7.57
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.57 for the rest of it.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Mariano Miño 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
Fenerbahce left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad26 Oct 2026
“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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
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Crisis
Squad12 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Ali Şaşal Vural out for 102 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Adana Demirspor will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Adana Demirspor may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Halil Eray Aktaş is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
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Crisis
Match22 Aug 2026
A 0‑5 beating by Besiktas was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Kürşat Küçük 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 Adana Demirspor this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Yücel Gürol
“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.
Boardroom24 Aug 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Adana Demirspor training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mariano Miño 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Beaten 5 times, with 4 saves for company. Goalkeepers carry these scorelines on their record whoever actually caused them, which is the quiet injustice of the job.