The Hatayspor Courier
Squad19 Jul 2027
95 days out for Alaaddin Okumuş after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Hatayspor will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market19 Jul 2027
Melih Şen asks to leave Hatayspor
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Tempers go at Hatayspor
Giovanni 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.
Squad19 Jul 2027
A row about effort at Hatayspor
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Yiğit Efe Demir was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
Door shut on Željko Samčović
Hatayspor asked and Mladost Lucani said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The dugout19 Jul 2027
Funsho Bamgboye 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.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Too much change too quickly at Hatayspor
7 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
Hatayspor try to borrow Željko Samčović
Mladost Lucani have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
The dugout19 Jul 2027
Chandrel Massanga knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Chandrel Massanga trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
In brief
- The dugout A door opens for Seyit Gazanfer
- Market Taylan Özgün placed on the list
- Market Cristian Arroyave leaves for nothing