Mert Can

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53 Edition

The Ankaragucu Post

2 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom2 Aug 2027

The interim tag comes off Tolga Kahveci

Ankaragucu interviewed the field and appointed the corridor: Tolga Kahveci keeps the job he had been doing in all but title. Sometimes the safest pair of hands is the one already holding the wheel.

The terraces2 Aug 2027

Anger at Ankaragucu spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Market2 Aug 2027

Mert Can asks to leave Ankaragucu

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad2 Aug 2027

Real improvement from Malik Odeyinka at Ankaragucu

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Malik Odeyinka is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad2 Aug 2027

Fabricio Pedrozo 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 Ankaragucu this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad2 Aug 2027

Samet Karakoç 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.

In brief

Back issues
50 Edition

The Ankaragucu Post

12 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad12 Jul 2027

Tempers go at Ankaragucu

Ahmed Kutucu 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.

Squad12 Jul 2027

Facundo Cabral has improved at 32, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

Boardroom12 Jul 2027

Ankaragucu still without a manager

11 days since the seat came open, a list of names doing the rounds, and nobody has signed anything. Every week this drags on the shortlist gets shorter.

In brief

45 Edition

The Ankaragucu Post

7 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom7 Jun 2027

Alper Unal has until the next board meeting

What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Ankaragucu can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.

Squad7 Jun 2027

Fabricio Pedrozo 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 Ankaragucu this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad7 Jun 2027

Real improvement from Mert Can at Ankaragucu

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Mert Can is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

In brief

9 Edition

The Ankaragucu Post

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match26 Sep 2026

Ankaragucu make it 3 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Ankaragucu have 3 straight wins of it.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Luis Solignac 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 Ankaragucu this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Real improvement from Mert Can at Ankaragucu

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Mert Can is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

A masterclass from Fabián Zambrano

Marked 9.28 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Osman Çelik 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.

Match26 Sep 2026

Fabián Zambrano sends Ankaragucu past Giresunspor

It finished 2‑1, and it was Fabián Zambrano’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Ankaragucu.

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

One of those days for Facundo Cabral

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.22, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad28 Sep 2026

The manager makes an example of Diogo Coelho

“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.

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

Oktay Aydın runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief