Halil Ozil

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The Kayserispor Post

14 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

No end in sight to Kayserispor's wait for a win

10 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Kayserispor has to find a result from somewhere.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Denis Makarov

Successful dribbles: 34. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Real improvement from Henrijs Auseklis at Kayserispor

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Henrijs Auseklis is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

Stefano Denswil 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 Kayserispor this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A late step up for Youssef Aït Bennasser

At 32 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 4 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.

Boardroom

5 academy players handed senior numbers at Kayserispor

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Squad

João Mendes falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Boardroom

Still nobody in the Kayserispor dugout

13 days with the chair empty, a list of names that grows and shrinks by the day, and not one signature on anything. Every week that passes takes the best candidates off it.

Market

One of our own: Halil Ozil joins the Kayserispor first team

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

In brief