Mahmut Calhanoglu

Left Forward - Umraniyespor U18
26 May 2029
Saturday
Process

Marked for Mahmut Calhanoglu

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The Umraniyespor Post

25 Dec 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Umraniyespor end the wait against Corum FK

It had gone 9 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.

Player ratings

Vintage Dionísio — 7.82

At 34 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.82, and nobody on the pitch better.

Squad

Tempers go at Umraniyespor

Cebio Soukou 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.

Match

Damián London the difference as Umraniyespor beat Corum FK

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Damián London. 3‑1 against Corum FK, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad

Tomislav Glumac 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 terraces

Umraniyespor supporters have found a favourite in Maxim Khokhlov

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Maxim Khokhlov has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Squad

Umraniyespor count the cost of losing Mahmut Calhanoglu

18 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

The dugout

Doğukan Tuzcu 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 dugout

Gabriel Dias 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.

In brief

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The Umraniyespor Post

27 Nov 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Baris Dervisoglu damages knee ligaments — 14 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 14 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.

The dugout

Doğukan Tuzcu keeps the receipts

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

Squad

7 saves: Deniz Dilmen was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Match

No end in sight to Umraniyespor's wait for a win

6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Umraniyespor has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Tempers go at Umraniyespor

Novatus Miroshi 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.

Match

Umraniyespor come up short against Sakaryaspor

Sakaryaspor left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Mahmut Calhanoglu out for 47 days

The medical room confirms 47 days on the sidelines for Mahmut Calhanoglu, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

The dugout

Maxim Khokhlov 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 dugout

Okay Erkin: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

In brief