The Kasimpasa Herald
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
- Player ratings Mamadou Fall beats them one at a time
- The dugout Abdullah Sinik has his say
- The dugout Kamil Ahmet Çörekçi is still being punished for one mistake