The Goztepe Herald
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Goztepe make their move for Orkun Kökçü
$11.4M on the table at Besiktas. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Goztepe bid $3.0M for Muhammed Şengezer
The offer went to Basaksehir this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Market10 Aug 2026
As if he never left: Doğan Erdoğan returns
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Doğan Erdoğan is a Goztepe player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Goztepe go back to the board over Orkun Kökçü
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $12.2M — a club that wants Orkun Kökçü enough to be asked twice.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Janderson signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Janderson commits to Goztepe for another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Doğan Erdoğan arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Doğan Erdoğan has, at Goztepe, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
$730.0K for Doğan Erdoğan, and Goztepe supporters approve
Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Doğan Erdoğan from Igdir FK for $730.0K, and a ticket office having a very good morning.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Goztepe
Guilherme Luiz and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market10 Aug 2026
Besiktas join the queue for Arda Okan Kurtulan
Add another name to the list: Besiktas have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Arda Okan Kurtulan. The answer from Goztepe has not changed — yet.
In brief
- The dugout No hiding place for Janderson
- Market One of our own: Abdullah Tekdemir joins the Goztepe first team
- Market One of our own: Hakan Dervisoglu joins the Goztepe first team