The Gaziantep Gazette
Squad24 Jul 2028
Karamba Gassama is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad24 Jul 2028
Abakar Sylla has improved at 25, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Squad24 Jul 2028
A row about effort at Gaziantep
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Abakar Sylla was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad24 Jul 2028
Tempers go at Gaziantep
Onur Ergün 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.
Market24 Jul 2028
The Drissa Camara story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Drissa Camara signs something — a contract at Gaziantep or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout24 Jul 2028
The manager makes Onur Ergün a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Gaziantep. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
In brief
- The dugout İsmail Çokçalış knocks on the manager's door
- Market The shop window has Adam El Ouali in it
- Market Nazım Sangaré's people are making calls
- The dugout The manager comes out for Alexandru Maxim