The Fatih Karagumruk Courier
Squad31 May 2027
A falling-out at Fatih Karagumruk
Bartuğ Elmaz and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad31 May 2027
Fatih Karagumruk count the cost of losing Umut Celik
24 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad31 May 2027
Tiago Çukur 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.
The dugout31 May 2027
Onuralp Çakıroğlu 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 dugout31 May 2027
Eduardo Doma knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Eduardo Doma trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout31 May 2027
The manager makes Bartuğ Elmaz a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Fatih Karagumruk. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
Squad31 May 2027
“I want to play”: Onuralp Çakıroğlu speaks
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
Market31 May 2027
Tiago Çukur placed on the list
Fatih Karagumruk have made Tiago Çukur available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
Market31 May 2027
The Bariş Kalaycı story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Bariş Kalaycı signs something — a contract at Fatih Karagumruk or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
In brief
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Shavy Babicka
- Loan watch Decision time nears on Davide Biraschi