The Hatayspor Courier
Squad20 Sep 2027
Arda Topal damages knee ligaments — 21 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 21 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match15 Sep 2027
Hatayspor bow out of the cup
Istanbulspor go through and Hatayspor go home, 0‑1 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Squad20 Sep 2027
A fracture rules Engin Aksoy out for 19 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Hatayspor will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match15 Sep 2027
The wait goes on for Hatayspor
8 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.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Alex Moretti: 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.” Hatayspor have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market20 Sep 2027
Only the photograph left for Lucas Rodrigues
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Lucas Rodrigues will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Hatayspor the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Real improvement from Demir Sarıcalı at Hatayspor
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Demir Sarıcalı is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Loan watch20 Sep 2027
Emir Dadük wants to come home
“I did not go to Trabzonspor to sit and watch. I want to come back to Hatayspor and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 10 matches say the rest.
Player ratings20 Sep 2027
Nobody could get near Dorgéles Néné
Successful dribbles: 13. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
In brief
- Player ratings An afternoon Prince Ating will want back
- Player ratings Cemil Aksu never got going
- Market The shop window has Taylan Özgün in it