The Giresunspor Gazette
Squad22 Mar 2027
The knee: Claudinho out for 26 days
26 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Giresunspor lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market22 Mar 2027
Mazinho 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.
Player ratings22 Mar 2027
Vintage Lucas Villela — 8.16
At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.16, and nobody on the pitch better.
The dugout22 Mar 2027
Arda Cebeci: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Giresunspor have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Player ratings22 Mar 2027
Nobody could get near Tunahan Taşçı
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Words exchanged at Giresunspor
Konstantinos Karetsas and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match20 Mar 2027
Lucas Villela’s goal not enough for Giresunspor
Lucas Villela scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Antalyaspor, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Agustín Quiroz 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.
The dugout22 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Alperen Aydın
“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.
In brief
- The dugout The view from the dugout
- The dugout Luís Carlos has become a man the manager trusts
- Squad The first one for Lucas Villela