Erol Çolak

Goalkeeper - Kasimpasa
14 Aug 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Erol Çolak

54 Edition

The Kasimpasa Herald

9 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

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.

Market

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 targets

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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 targets

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 targets

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 targets

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

Back issues
54 Edition

The Trabzonspor Sentinel

9 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Market

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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 dugout

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.

Market

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 dugout

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