The Goztepe Herald
Transfer targets16 Aug 2027
Fee done, terms next for Gökdeniz Bayrakdar
Goztepe and Bodrum FK have settled on $6.6M. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.
Match14 Aug 2027
Goztepe leave it late against Gaziantep
Ninety minutes of very little, and then everything at once. The winner arrived in the 87th, and Gaziantep spent what remained of the match appealing to the referee rather than chasing the ball.
Market16 Aug 2027
Alexis Antunes 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 The request is on a desk at Goztepe, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match14 Aug 2027
Nobody wants to play Goztepe right now
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Malcom Bokélé in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Goztepe this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market16 Aug 2027
Jeh wants European nights
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Boardroom16 Aug 2027
Graduation day at Goztepe
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Words at Goztepe training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Juan Santos 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.
Market16 Aug 2027
One of our own: Semih Unal joins the Goztepe first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Semih Unal is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Erkan Torun joins the Goztepe first team
- Match Goztepe find a way past Gaziantep
- Squad Allan Godói wants to go home