Esat Alkurt

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Fatih Karagumruk
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155 Edition

The Fatih Karagumruk Courier

16 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Market16 Jul 2029

Salih Özcan wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Market16 Jul 2029

Fatih Karagumruk get their man

The chase for Muhammed Kiprit ended with $530.0K changing hands and Manisa FK out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.

Squad16 Jul 2029

Tempers go at Fatih Karagumruk

Manolis Siopis 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.

Squad16 Jul 2029

Noah Saviolo 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.

Market16 Jul 2029

Fatih Karagumruk and Marius Doh are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Squad16 Jul 2029

Görkem Bitin stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Görkem Bitin and Fatih Karagumruk agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad16 Jul 2029

The formation has left Muhammed Kiprit behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Fatih Karagumruk will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

The dugout16 Jul 2029

No hiding place for Esat Alkurt

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Esat Alkurt, and the manager let it.

Market16 Jul 2029

The Daniele Verde question follows Fatih Karagumruk around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Daniele Verde’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief

Back issues
152 Edition

The Fatih Karagumruk Courier

25 Jun 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad25 Jun 2029

Zeca breaks a bone — 22 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 22 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market25 Jun 2029

Robson Reis asks to leave Fatih Karagumruk

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market25 Jun 2029

Fatih Karagumruk get their man

The chase for Salih Özcan ended with $2.9M changing hands and Besiktas out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.

Transfer targets25 Jun 2029

Too dear: Fatih Karagumruk walk away from Ali Akman

$2.1M was the most the club would pay and Genclerbirligi were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Market25 Jun 2029

Fatih Karagumruk turn down Boluspor for Esat Alkurt

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

Squad25 Jun 2029

Manolis Siopis 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 Fatih Karagumruk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market25 Jun 2029

Furkan Bekleviç moves on

Erzurumspor pay $550.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

The terraces25 Jun 2029

The town asked, and Fatih Karagumruk paid $2.9M

Salih Özcan was the name on every phone-in, and the club has gone and signed him for $2.9M. For one week the board can do no wrong, which is a week most boards never get.

Squad25 Jun 2029

Words at Fatih Karagumruk training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. João Camacho 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.

In brief

144 Edition

The Fatih Karagumruk Courier

30 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad30 Apr 2029

A fracture rules Zeca out for 79 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Fatih Karagumruk will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market30 Apr 2029

Ahmed Traoré asks to leave Fatih Karagumruk

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad30 Apr 2029

Tempers go at Fatih Karagumruk

Furkan Bayır 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.

Squad30 Apr 2029

A row about effort at Fatih Karagumruk

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and João Camacho was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad30 Apr 2029

The decline has begun for Aleksandar Pešić

Everybody saw it before anybody said it. At 36 the numbers say 3 points down on what he was, and the question for Fatih Karagumruk is how to handle a man they owe a great deal.

Player ratings30 Apr 2029

Ahmed Traoré runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match28 Apr 2029

A bad afternoon for Fatih Karagumruk against Sariyer

0‑1 to Sariyer, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout30 Apr 2029

Ahmet Torun faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Ahmet Torun after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

The dugout30 Apr 2029

The manager makes an example of Esat Alkurt

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief

135 Edition

The Fatih Karagumruk Courier

26 Feb 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market26 Feb 2029

Enes Aydın asks to leave Fatih Karagumruk

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad26 Feb 2029

Manolis Siopis 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 Fatih Karagumruk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad26 Feb 2029

Words at Fatih Karagumruk training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. João Camacho 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.

Match24 Feb 2029

Fatih Karagumruk see off Umraniyespor

Three points for Fatih Karagumruk, 1‑0 the final word against Umraniyespor in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings26 Feb 2029

João Camacho runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings26 Feb 2029

Doğucan Haspolat in the eights

A performance of 8.06 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad26 Feb 2029

Esat Alkurt signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Esat Alkurt commits to Fatih Karagumruk for another 3 years.

The dugout26 Feb 2029

Ahmet Torun: “That is the standard”

“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 1‑0, already talking about the next one.

The dugout26 Feb 2029

No hiding place for Ahmed Traoré

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ahmed Traoré, and the manager let it.

In brief

70 Edition

The Fatih Karagumruk Courier

29 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad29 Nov 2027

Çağtay Kurukalıp damages knee ligaments — 56 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 56 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.

Market29 Nov 2027

Robson Reis puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Fatih Karagumruk, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings29 Nov 2027

Daniel Johnson, 35, rolls back the years — 8.08

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.08 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.

The dugout29 Nov 2027

Esat Alkurt: 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.” Fatih Karagumruk have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad29 Nov 2027

Ismail Jakobs 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 Fatih Karagumruk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad29 Nov 2027

A row about effort at Fatih Karagumruk

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Emin Bayram was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match27 Nov 2027

Fatih Karagumruk share the spoils with Kocaelispor

A 2‑2 draw with Kocaelispor leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

The dugout29 Nov 2027

Half-satisfied: Ahmet Torun on the draw

“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 2‑2, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.

Squad29 Nov 2027

Moussa Kone, 19, is the weekend’s best young player

Measured against every other kid in the division and first among them. The senior award is where Fatih Karagumruk would like this to lead.

In brief