Ömer Akın

Defensive Midfielder - Goztepe U20
5 Feb 2028
Saturday
Process

Marked for Ömer Akın

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The Goztepe Herald

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

Door shut on Bünyamin Balcı

Goztepe asked and Antalyaspor said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Boardroom

Goztepe close the window on a squad of their own making

14 in and 4 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.

Transfer targets

No deal for Burak Bekaroğlu at that price

Goztepe offered $280.0K; Sakaryaspor said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

Squad

Goztepe lose Ömer Akın

19 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad

Tempers go at Goztepe

Yusuf Erdoğan 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.

Squad

Onur Ayık 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.

Squad

Guilherme Luiz makes the team of the month

Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.

The dugout

Onur Ayık 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

Luka Gugeshashvili asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief

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The Goztepe Herald

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Rhaldney has said yes to Sivasspor

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Goztepe have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Transfer targets

Goztepe make their move for Orkun Kökçü

$11.4M on the table at Besiktas. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Market

Arda Özçimen says no to Boluspor

“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Arda Özçimen had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.

Transfer targets

Goztepe rebuffed over İbrahim Kaya

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Alanyaspor have kept their man, and Goztepe go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Boardroom

Goztepe go back to the board over Orkun Kökçü

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $12.2M — a club that wants Orkun Kökçü enough to be asked twice.

Transfer targets

Taylan Bulut will not be coming to Goztepe

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Besiktas is saying, and nobody at Goztepe is enjoying the guessing.

Squad

Janderson signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Janderson commits to Goztepe for another 4 years.

Transfer targets

An offer of $300.0K for Hüseyin Türkmen

Goztepe have gone to Antalyaspor with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Squad

A falling-out at Goztepe

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

In brief