The Samsunspor Chronicle
Market14 Aug 2028
Logi Tómasson hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Samsunspor can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings14 Aug 2028
Chérif N'Diaye scores twice — 8.58
Two goals and a mark of 8.58 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
The dugout14 Aug 2028
Erkam Develi: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Samsunspor have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Boardroom14 Aug 2028
A new deal for Can Kahveci
The board have signed the man in the dugout to a longer contract, which says more than any statement of support. Stability is easy to promise and costly to keep.
Squad14 Aug 2028
A falling-out at Samsunspor
Jayden Oosterwolde and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad14 Aug 2028
A row about effort at Samsunspor
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Chérif N'Diaye was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom14 Aug 2028
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Samsunspor
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Player ratings14 Aug 2028
Jayden Oosterwolde was immovable
21 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
Boardroom14 Aug 2028
Samsunspor beat the market to Fethi Özer from Keciorengucu
Keciorengucu will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Fethi Özer has pre-agreed a move to Samsunspor, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
In brief
- Match Samsunspor get the job done against Basaksehir
- Market Samsunspor promote Sinan Tasci from within
- Market Samsunspor promote Halil Dervisoglu from within