The Hatayspor Courier
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Hatayspor
Yılmaz Cin 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 targets10 Aug 2026
Door shut on Mücahit Serbest
Hatayspor asked and Istanbulspor said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Mert Yildiz joins the Hatayspor first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Mert Yildiz is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Can Guler joins the Hatayspor first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Can Guler is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Hakan Topcu steps up from the Hatayspor academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Hakan Topcu 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Erkan Demiral joins the Hatayspor first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Erkan Demiral is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad10 Aug 2026
No place for Allan Dias in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Hatayspor are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Hatayspor are still strangers to each other
8 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Hatayspor
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Emre Bilgin was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
In brief
- Looking ahead Hatayspor host Basaksehir
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Taylan Özgün