The Kocaelispor Herald
Squad14 Aug 2028
Serdar Dursun damages knee ligaments — 59 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 59 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.
Match12 Aug 2028
Kocaelispor run riot against Boluspor
4‑1, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
The dugout14 Aug 2028
Mbaye Diagne: 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.” Kocaelispor have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Player ratings14 Aug 2028
Both of them Marius Mouandilmadji's — 9.12
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.12, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings14 Aug 2028
A brace, and Abbosbek Fayzullayev takes the afternoon — 8.37
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Abbosbek Fayzullayev provided it, and the 8.37 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market14 Aug 2028
Kocaelispor sell Serhat Öztaşdelen for $1.1M
Serhat Öztaşdelen has left for Rizespor in a $1.1M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Squad14 Aug 2028
Tempers go at Kocaelispor
Anfernee Dijksteel 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.
Market14 Aug 2028
Besiktas are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Kocaelispor will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Boardroom14 Aug 2028
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Kocaelispor
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.
In brief
- Squad A row about effort at Kocaelispor
- Transfer targets Fenerbahce tell Kocaelispor: Taha Şahin is not for sale
- Market Abdullah Ozan steps up from the Kocaelispor academy