The Rizespor Sentinel
Squad6 Dec 2032
A fracture rules Halil Bayindir out for 25 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Rizespor will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match4 Dec 2032
Whatever happens, Rizespor do not lose
12 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
The dugout6 Dec 2032
Moustapha Camara says Rizespor 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.
Market6 Dec 2032
Caner Dervisoglu 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 Rizespor can pretend not to have heard.
Squad6 Dec 2032
Tempers go at Rizespor
Muhamed Buljubašić 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.
Squad6 Dec 2032
Ege Yıldırım signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ege Yıldırım and Rizespor agree another 4 years.
Squad6 Dec 2032
Bruno Fuchs 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.
Player ratings6 Dec 2032
Batuhan Çelik was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 19. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Match4 Dec 2032
Özder Özcan the difference as Rizespor beat Sivasspor
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Özder Özcan. 1‑0 against Sivasspor, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
In brief
- Player ratings Özder Özcan in the eights
- Market Talks stall between Rizespor and Uğurcan Çakır
- The dugout Bruno Fuchs has become a man the manager trusts