Mert Can

Central Defender - Ankaragucu
12 Feb 2027
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Marked for Mert Can

14 Edition

The Ankaragucu Post

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad2 Nov 2026

Nurettin Korkmaz breaks a bone — 64 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 64 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad2 Nov 2026

Ertaç Özbir stands alone

9 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Player ratings2 Nov 2026

Up for the corner, and Maestro delivers — 7.93

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Maestro scored, was marked 7.93, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Match31 Oct 2026

Maestro’s goal not enough for Ankaragucu

Maestro scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑3 to Gaziantep, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Match31 Oct 2026

No time for Gaziantep to settle

The goal that put Gaziantep ahead was still being replayed on the concourse when Ankaragucu equalised, 3 minutes later. Leads are only worth what you do with them.

The dugout2 Nov 2026

Oktay Aydın 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.

Squad2 Nov 2026

Mert Can stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Mert Can and Ankaragucu agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout2 Nov 2026

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑3 defeat, delivered by Umut Gunok to a room that had heard them before.

Squad2 Nov 2026

Erdoğan Yeşilyurt slips down the pecking order

The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Erdoğan Yeşilyurt is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.

In brief

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The Ankaragucu Post

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad19 Oct 2026

82 days out for Nurettin Korkmaz after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Ankaragucu will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Squad19 Oct 2026

Ertaç Özbir stands alone

6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Squad19 Oct 2026

Mert Can is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 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.

Match17 Oct 2026

Ankaragucu come up short against Basaksehir

Basaksehir left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout19 Oct 2026

Umut Gunok faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Umut Gunok after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

Squad19 Oct 2026

A row about effort at Ankaragucu

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mesut Kesik was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout19 Oct 2026

The manager makes an example of Diego Otoya

“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 dugout19 Oct 2026

Somebody else is better right now than Ekrem Stancic

The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.

The dugout19 Oct 2026

Oktay Aydın knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Ankaragucu, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief