The Erzurumspor Courier
Squad28 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Ali Celik
28 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Erzurumspor lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad28 Sep 2026
96 days out for Serkan Köse after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Erzurumspor will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Real improvement from Ada İbik at Erzurumspor
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Ada İbik is 17, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Erzurumspor
Martín Rodríguez 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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Martín Rodríguez runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Ali Ülgen stands above it all
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.55 on the card, and the Erzurumspor support went home talking about one name.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Okay Gunok chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Kauê Alves dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Match26 Sep 2026
Point won or two lost for Erzurumspor?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Bodrum FK? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
In brief
- Looking ahead A reunion for Fernando Andrade
- The dugout The plan did not have a place for Orhan Ovacıklı
- The dugout The manager makes Amar Gerxhaliu a promise