The Gaziantep Gazette
Transfer targets5 Jun 2028
$630.0K settles it between the clubs for Ussumane Djabi
Keciorengucu have accepted the money. What Gaziantep do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Squad5 Jun 2028
Tempers go at Gaziantep
Enver Kulašin 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.
Transfer targets5 Jun 2028
Gaziantep rebuffed over Agustín Campos
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Erzurumspor have kept their man, and Gaziantep go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad5 Jun 2028
Words at Gaziantep training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexandru Maxim is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad5 Jun 2028
A muscle injury and 14 days out for Mervan Müjdeci
The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Gaziantep will quote 14 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad5 Jun 2028
Gaziantep have started building around Rodrigo Ramos
He used to be one of the options. He is now one of the men the options are picked around, and the change happened quietly enough that only the dressing room noticed on the day.
The dugout5 Jun 2028
Rodrigo Ramos 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 Rodrigo Ramos trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market5 Jun 2028
Talks stall between Gaziantep and Victor Gidado
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Boardroom5 Jun 2028
The window opens at Gaziantep
A month in which every rumour is possible and most of them are nonsense. The manager has a list, the board has a number, and neither is telling the other the whole of it.
In brief
- The dugout Victor Gidado has been promised minutes
- Market Nazım Sangaré runs his contract down
- The dugout The manager comes out for Ivan Brnić