The Adana Demirspor Gazette
Match11 Nov 2026
The small margins put Adana Demirspor out
Out, 1‑3 to Sivasspor, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Yusuf Demirkıran, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 8.19
A mark of 8.19 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Age has not caught Mariano Vázquez yet — 8.75
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.75 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Junior Mendieta 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 Adana Demirspor this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces16 Nov 2026
The crowd has taken to Yusuf Demirkıran
At 20 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Tarık Çetin gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Match14 Nov 2026
Adana Demirspor and Umraniyespor take a point apiece
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Diyar Zengin 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
The plan did not have a place for Salih Özcan
Nobody at Adana Demirspor is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
In brief
- Player ratings Junior Mendieta keeps on missing
- Player ratings Yücel Gürol never got going
- The terraces The press have found their man in Mariano Vázquez