The Sivasspor Herald
Squad31 May 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Cengiz Gunok
17 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Sivasspor lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad31 May 2027
Rey Manaj is named among the best
There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Sivasspor will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.
Squad31 May 2027
Words exchanged at Sivasspor
Cihat Çelik 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.
Squad31 May 2027
Clinton Duodu is the real thing at 21
A season average of 7.01 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Sivasspor know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.
Boardroom31 May 2027
Wages swallow 90% of the Sivasspor income
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
The dugout31 May 2027
No hiding place for Turaç Böke
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Turaç Böke, and the manager let it.
Market31 May 2027
The Rey Manaj story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Rey Manaj signs something — a contract at Sivasspor or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout31 May 2027
Turaç Böke gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Turaç Böke is on it.
The dugout31 May 2027
The manager makes Aly Mallé a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Sivasspor. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
In brief
- The dugout Emre Gökay knocks on the manager's door
- Loan watch Decision time nears on Yılmaz Cin