The Konyaspor Courier
Boardroom28 Feb 2028
Muhammet Avan signs for Esenler Erokspor while still at Konyaspor
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Muhammet Avan has agreed terms with Esenler Erokspor for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad28 Feb 2028
Words at Konyaspor training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Diogo Gonçalves 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.
Match26 Feb 2028
Konyaspor see off Eyupspor
Three points for Konyaspor, 2‑0 the final word against Eyupspor in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Match26 Feb 2028
Konyaspor end the wait against Eyupspor
It had gone 5 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.
Player ratings28 Feb 2028
One of those days for Enis Bardhi
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.21, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings28 Feb 2028
Diogo Gonçalves in the eights
A performance of 8.23 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
The dugout28 Feb 2028
No place for Jean-Luc Dompé on the big day
He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Konyaspor pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.
Squad28 Feb 2028
A falling-out at Konyaspor
Luke Faxon and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout28 Feb 2028
Jean-Luc Dompé dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
In brief
- The dugout Melih İbrahimoğlu gets it from the manager
- The dugout Caner Tufan has his say
- Market Diogo Gonçalves linked with a move away