Baris Under

Right Forward - Eyupspor U18
15 Apr 2029
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The Eyupspor Post

11 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout

Baris Under says Eyupspor went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

Tempers go at Eyupspor

Jackson Muleka 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.

Squad

Lucas Calegari 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.

Squad

A muscle injury sidelines Metehan Altunbaş for 14 days

Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Eyupspor will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.

The dugout

No hiding place for Emre Akbaba

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Emre Akbaba, and the manager let it.

The dugout

Jackson Muleka 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 Jackson Muleka trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market

Buğra Çağlıyan told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Buğra Çağlıyan has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Eyupspor.

The dugout

Len Bakker is still being punished for one mistake

Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.

Market

Umut Bozok linked with a move away

The name of Umut Bozok keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Eyupspor say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

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The Eyupspor Post

16 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Eyupspor sell their best player to Besiktas

$15.0M is a serious amount of money and it does not play centre-forward. Everybody in the dressing room knows who used to be looked at when it went wrong.

Squad

The knee: Tibet Durakçay out for 83 days

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

Squad

23 days out for Dorin Rotariu after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Eyupspor will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Match

Eyupspor strike at the death to beat Bandirmaspor

There were 89 minutes on the clock and Bandirmaspor had all but banked the point. Football rarely reads the room, and Eyupspor did not stop to explain themselves.

The dugout

Lenny Pintor keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Eyupspor may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

The terraces

Supporters turn on the $15.0M sale of Mateusz Łęgowski

He is going to Besiktas, the club has $15.0M it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.

Transfer targets

Eyupspor rebuffed over Eren Aydın

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

Boardroom

Graduation day at Eyupspor

3 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Squad

Lucas Calegari 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.

In brief