Yılmaz Cin

Striker - Sivasspor U20
7 Nov 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Yılmaz Cin

44 Edition

The Sivasspor Herald

31 May 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Boardroom

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 dugout

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.

Market

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 dugout

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 dugout

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

Back issues
41 Edition

The Hatayspor Courier

10 May 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Chandrel Massanga 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 The request is on a desk at Hatayspor, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings

Musa Danjuma, 19, steals the show — 8.30

Marked 8.30 at 19, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Squad

A falling-out at Hatayspor

Giovanni and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Mertcan Ayhan 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.

Match

Hatayspor find a way past Istanbulspor

Istanbulspor made Hatayspor work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Yılmaz Cin

At 18 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.

Squad

Diogo Travassos is carrying Hatayspor

8 goals and a season average of 7.20. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Squad

Halil Can Cemali stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Halil Can Cemali and Hatayspor agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout

Somebody else is better right now than Cristian Arroyave

The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.

In brief

  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • The dugout The manager makes an example of Seyit Gazanfer
  • The dugout No place in the plan for Luiz Otávio