The Antalyaspor Herald
The dugout10 May 2027
Georgy Djikia says Antalyaspor 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.
Squad10 May 2027
Tempers go at Antalyaspor
Erdoğan Yeşilyurt 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.
Squad10 May 2027
Words at Antalyaspor training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Soner Dikmen 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.
The dugout10 May 2027
Veysel Sarı 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.
The dugout10 May 2027
Julián Cuesta knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Antalyaspor, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market10 May 2027
The Kenneth Paal talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Antalyaspor know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad10 May 2027
A wage question at Antalyaspor
Julián Cuesta has done the arithmetic and does not like the answer. Nothing corrodes a squad faster, and no club has ever solved it by explaining the wage structure to a footballer.
The dugout10 May 2027
The manager makes Bahadır Öztürk a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Antalyaspor. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
Loan watch10 May 2027
Istanbulspor cannot leave Ufuk Akyol out
10 starts and an average of 6.47. He went there to play and he is playing, which is the only thing a loan was ever for.
In brief
- Squad Baris Omur is starting to look at home
- Loan watch The clock runs down on Francis Nzaba at Adana Demirspor
- Match A season winding down at Antalyaspor