Erol Çolak

Goalkeeper - Kasimpasa
28 Aug 2027
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Marked for Erol Çolak

56 Edition

The Kasimpasa Herald

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad23 Aug 2027

The knee: Cüneyt Köz out for 77 days

77 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Kasimpasa lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Transfer targets23 Aug 2027

Patrick Ouotro turns down Kasimpasa

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Vitoria Guimaraes keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Market23 Aug 2027

Kasimpasa turn down Tskhinvali for Erol Çolak

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad23 Aug 2027

Erol Çolak 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.

Squad23 Aug 2027

Words at Kasimpasa training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Cláudio Winck is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Transfer targets23 Aug 2027

Door shut on Yoël van den Ban

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

Squad23 Aug 2027

Jeferson 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 Kasimpasa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match21 Aug 2027

Ali Yavuz Kol sends Kasimpasa past Istanbulspor

It finished 2‑1, and it was Ali Yavuz Kol’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Kasimpasa.

Player ratings23 Aug 2027

A masterclass from Fousseni Diabaté

Marked 8.02 — 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.

In brief

Back issues
54 Edition

The Kasimpasa Herald

9 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad9 Aug 2027

Cüneyt Köz damages knee ligaments — 91 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 91 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.

Market9 Aug 2027

Kamil Ahmet Çörekçi 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 Kasimpasa can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets9 Aug 2027

David Stückler will not be coming to Kasimpasa

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

Squad9 Aug 2027

Words exchanged at Kasimpasa

Mamadou Fall 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.

Squad9 Aug 2027

Erol Çolak gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Erol Çolak has just signed for Kasimpasa, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad9 Aug 2027

Cláudio Winck 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.

Transfer targets9 Aug 2027

Gornik Zabrze tell Kasimpasa: Piotr Parzyszek is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Transfer targets9 Aug 2027

Kasimpasa try to borrow Yoël van den Ban

AZ have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Transfer targets9 Aug 2027

A loan move for Alexandr Koksharov is in the works

Kasimpasa have made the call to Krasnodar. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

In brief

54 Edition

The Trabzonspor Sentinel

9 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match9 Aug 2027

The view from the top for Trabzonspor

96 points, and the rest of the division looking up. Every side that finishes first spends the season pretending it is not thinking about it, and this one has started pretending.

Squad9 Aug 2027

Boran Başkan 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.

Squad9 Aug 2027

Words exchanged at Trabzonspor

Mustafa Eskihellaç 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.

Market9 Aug 2027

Noah Saviolo attracts admirers

The name of Noah Saviolo has come up in conversations Trabzonspor were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad9 Aug 2027

Benjamin Bouchouari has improved at 25, 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.

Squad9 Aug 2027

Jackson Muleka 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 dugout9 Aug 2027

When it matters, Fabinho plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Market9 Aug 2027

The Ernest Muçi story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Ernest Muçi signs something — a contract at Trabzonspor or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

The dugout9 Aug 2027

A door opens for Umut Nayir

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

In brief