Tolga Tokoz

Striker - Adana Demirspor
26 Jan 2027
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Tolga Tokoz

7 Edition

The Adana Demirspor Gazette

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Tolga Tokoz damages knee ligaments — 14 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 14 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.

Market

Gökdeniz Tunç puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Adana Demirspor, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match

4 matches without a win for Adana Demirspor

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Adana Demirspor are no longer polite ones.

Transfer targets

Too dear: Adana Demirspor walk away from Edin Višća

$120.0K was the most the club would pay and Trabzonspor were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Squad

A falling-out at Adana Demirspor

Richard and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets

Adana Demirspor rebuffed over Pavlo Isenko

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Universitatea Craiova have kept their man, and Adana Demirspor go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

Words at Adana Demirspor training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Josip Ćalušić 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.

Squad

Ali Fidan stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Ali Fidan and Adana Demirspor agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Player ratings

Julien Bègue was the difference for Adana Demirspor

Marked 7.68. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

In brief

Back issues
6 Edition

The Adana Demirspor Gazette

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

The knee: Tolga Tokoz out for 23 days

23 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Adana Demirspor lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad

8 saves: Ali Şaşal Vural was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Boardroom

Deadline passes with 20 signed and 0 gone

That is the business done at Adana Demirspor until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

Transfer targets

Vladimir Lučić turns down Adana Demirspor

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Crvena Zvezda keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad

Words exchanged at Adana Demirspor

Mattheus Oliveira 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 targets

Adana Demirspor bid $120.0K for Edin Višća

The offer went to Trabzonspor this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Darlan Mendes

Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Transfer targets

Adana Demirspor baulk at the price for Ensar Arslan

Hatayspor wanted more than $82.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Match

Fatih Karagumruk take the points off Adana Demirspor

Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

In brief