Ali Gunok

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Alanyaspor U18
3 Jan 2028
Monday
Process

Marked for Ali Gunok

26 Edition

The Alanyaspor Gazette

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Meschack Elia hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Alanyaspor can pretend not to have heard.

Match

The wait goes on for Alanyaspor

5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

Words exchanged at Alanyaspor

Yusuf Yazıcı and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Transfer targets

Galatasaray tell Alanyaspor: Yunus Akgün is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Match

A bad afternoon for Alanyaspor against Gaziantep

0‑1 to Gaziantep, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

A row about effort at Alanyaspor

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Arif Boşluk was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

Alanyaspor count the cost of losing Ertuğrul Taşkıran

42 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

The dugout

Maestro 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.

Squad

Alanyaspor lose Ali Gunok

19 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

In brief

Back issues
21 Edition

The Alanyaspor Gazette

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Meschack Elia asks to leave Alanyaspor

“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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Ruan

Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The terraces

One of their own: Ruan

He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Match

Alanyaspor get the job done against Genclerbirligi

A 1‑0 win over Genclerbirligi, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Nicolas Janvier

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Squad

Alanyaspor count the cost of losing Ali Gunok

23 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Player ratings

Steve Mounié was the difference for Alanyaspor

Marked 7.72. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

The dugout

Oguzhan Yildirim: “That is the standard”

“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 1‑0, already talking about the next one.

Squad

The weekend belonged to Yusuf Yazıcı

Player of the week, judged against every other man in the division. A small award, and one most careers never collect.

In brief

2 Edition

The Alanyaspor Gazette

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

Alanyaspor 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.

Market

Eyes on Yusuf Özdemir again

The phone has started ringing about Yusuf Özdemir again, and this time the name on the line is Gaziantep. Alanyaspor are listening politely and promising nothing.

Boardroom

Alanyaspor go back to the board over Muhammed Şengezer

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $3.2M — a club that wants Muhammed Şengezer enough to be asked twice.

Squad

Ruan stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Ruan and Alanyaspor agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Words exchanged at Alanyaspor

Ianis Hagi and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Transfer targets

Alanyaspor rebuffed over Ahmed Kutucu

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Galatasaray have kept their man, and Alanyaspor go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market

Okay Turuc steps up from the Alanyaspor academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Okay Turuc has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

Ozan Erkin steps up from the Alanyaspor academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ozan Erkin has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

One of our own: Ali Gunok joins the Alanyaspor first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ali Gunok is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief

  • Squad Too much change too quickly at Alanyaspor
  • The dugout Ruan knocks on the manager's door
  • Looking ahead A test against the best for Alanyaspor