The Erzurumspor Courier
The dugout14 Aug 2028
Cheikne Sylla keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Erzurumspor may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad14 Aug 2028
Words exchanged at Erzurumspor
Giovanni Crociata 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.
Boardroom14 Aug 2028
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Erzurumspor
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.
Squad14 Aug 2028
Bruno Sávio 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.
Transfer targets14 Aug 2028
Basaksehir tell Erzurumspor: Samet Karakoç 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.
Match12 Aug 2028
A bad afternoon for Erzurumspor against Eyupspor
0‑2 to Eyupspor, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout14 Aug 2028
The manager makes an example of Matija Orbanić
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market14 Aug 2028
Halil Gunok steps up from the Erzurumspor academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Halil Gunok has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market14 Aug 2028
One of our own: Serdar Turuc joins the Erzurumspor first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Serdar Turuc is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Mahmut Ozil joins the Erzurumspor first team
- Market Erzurumspor promote Enes Turuc from within
- Boardroom Erzurumspor board go back on their word