Abdullah Unal

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Istanbulspor
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569 Edition

The Istanbulspor Gazette

22 Jun 2037
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces22 Jun 2037

Anger at Istanbulspor spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Squad22 Jun 2037

Abdullah Unal damages knee ligaments — 20 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 20 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad22 Jun 2037

Kaan Sarman says Istanbulspor went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

In brief

Back issues
568 Edition

The Istanbulspor Gazette

15 Jun 2037
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom15 Jun 2037

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Istanbulspor

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Squad15 Jun 2037

Abdullah Unal damages knee ligaments — 27 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 27 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad15 Jun 2037

Boran Başkan 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 Istanbulspor this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad15 Jun 2037

Words at Istanbulspor training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ramil Mustafaev 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.

Squad15 Jun 2037

Cengiz Calhanoglu signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Cengiz Calhanoglu commits to Istanbulspor for another 3 years.

Market15 Jun 2037

The Ramil Mustafaev story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Ramil Mustafaev signs something — a contract at Istanbulspor or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

In brief

567 Edition

The Istanbulspor Gazette

8 Jun 2037
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad8 Jun 2037

Abdullah Unal damages knee ligaments — 34 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 34 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Boardroom8 Jun 2037

Istanbulspor spell it out for Interim Coach

The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Interim Coach has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.

Boardroom8 Jun 2037

The Istanbulspor board call everybody in

Nothing has been announced and everybody understands what it means. A board that summons the whole football department on a Tuesday morning is a board that has stopped believing the problem will fix itself.

Market8 Jun 2037

Only the photograph left for Jan Campos

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Jan Campos will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Istanbulspor the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad8 Jun 2037

Tempers go at Istanbulspor

Boran Başkan was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Boardroom8 Jun 2037

Jan Campos signs for Umraniyespor while still at Istanbulspor

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Jan Campos has agreed terms with Umraniyespor for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Squad8 Jun 2037

Ramil Mustafaev 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.

Squad8 Jun 2037

Renato 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.

Market8 Jun 2037

The Mustafa Sol question follows Istanbulspor around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Mustafa Sol’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief