The Istanbulspor Gazette
The terraces9 Aug 2032
Supporters organise against the Istanbulspor board
A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.
Squad9 Aug 2032
A row about effort at Istanbulspor
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mario Krstovski was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets9 Aug 2032
Juventud tell Istanbulspor: Emiliano Machado is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad9 Aug 2032
Tempers go at Istanbulspor
Michael Ologo 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.
Market9 Aug 2032
Sarp Yavrucu attracts admirers
The name of Sarp Yavrucu has come up in conversations Istanbulspor were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
The dugout9 Aug 2032
Mustafa Sol gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Mustafa Sol is on it.
Market9 Aug 2032
The Noah Saviolo talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Istanbulspor know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout9 Aug 2032
Ertuğrul Sandıkcı 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 Istanbulspor, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad9 Aug 2032
Mustafa Sol can feel the drop
The table is being checked before the results are in, which is always the tell. Nobody at Istanbulspor says the word and every senior player in the building is thinking it.
In brief
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Mustafa Sol
- Squad The penny has dropped for Kenneth Aké