Marked for Ebrima Colley
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Steady
Squad11 Oct 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Ahmet Tırpancı
106 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Konyaspor lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Guilherme in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Konyaspor this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match9 Oct 2027
Ankaragucu left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Market11 Oct 2027
Konyaspor may not be able to give Pedrinho what he wants
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Pedrinho wants continental football; whether Konyaspor can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Player ratings11 Oct 2027
Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Words at Konyaspor training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Guillermo Ortiz is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
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Player ratings20 Sep 2027
Two goals and a mark of 9.08 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad20 Sep 2027
A fracture rules Bruno Bianchi out for 19 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Konyaspor will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match18 Sep 2027
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 11 matches without defeat is a foundation Konyaspor did not have in the autumn.
Player ratings20 Sep 2027
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Ebrima Colley: 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.” Konyaspor have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Deniz Ertaş is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Match18 Sep 2027
11 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Squad20 Sep 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Konyaspor this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match18 Sep 2027
A 2‑1 win over Fatih Karagumruk, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
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Squad30 Aug 2027
Bruno Bianchi breaks a bone — 47 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 47 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market30 Aug 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Match28 Aug 2027
Still nobody has beaten Konyaspor
The unbeaten run reaches 9. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Enis Destan 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.
Squad30 Aug 2027
A last season at home is what Bruno Bianchi is after
It is sentimental, it is completely genuine, and it is the beginning of a departure nobody has announced. The club can be gracious about it or it can pretend not to have heard.
The terraces30 Aug 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Deniz Ertaş 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.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Ebrima Colley has improved at 27, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Market30 Aug 2027
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Rodrigo Arciero has his answer from Konyaspor; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Player ratings30 Aug 2027
A day to forget for Jo Jin-Ho
Marked 4.82, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.
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Squad3 May 2027
Gastón Sauro: 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.” Konyaspor have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad3 May 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Konyaspor this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match1 May 2027
Whatever happens, Konyaspor do not lose
6 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.
Squad3 May 2027
11 goals and a season average of 7.35. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Match1 May 2027
8 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Squad3 May 2027
Words at Konyaspor training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yhoan Andzouana is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Player ratings3 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match1 May 2027
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Basaksehir came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Market3 May 2027
The name of Diogo Gonçalves keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Konyaspor say nothing, which says plenty.
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Match10 Apr 2027
3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Squad12 Apr 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Konyaspor this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Words at Konyaspor training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yhoan Andzouana is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Player ratings12 Apr 2027
Marked 8.32 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings12 Apr 2027
Ebrima Colley was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.17. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Player ratings12 Apr 2027
Ninety minutes of Enis Destan at his very best
Marked 8.10. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Konyaspor.
Squad12 Apr 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Chidozie Awaziem, and the manager let it.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Guilherme asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Market12 Apr 2027
The name of Jean-Luc Dompé keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Konyaspor say nothing, which says plenty.
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Market14 Dec 2026
Bruno Bianchi 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 Konyaspor can pretend not to have heard.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Guilherme in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Konyaspor this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Words at Konyaspor training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Adil Demirbağ is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad14 Dec 2026
No hiding place for Guilherme
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Guilherme, and the manager let it.
Squad14 Dec 2026
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Konyaspor told Adil Demirbağ something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
Match12 Dec 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
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Match11 Nov 2026
A 1‑0 win over Alanyaspor, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Market16 Nov 2026
Bruno Bianchi 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 Konyaspor can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Diogo Gonçalves 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.
Match14 Nov 2026
Antalyaspor left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words at Konyaspor training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Chidozie Awaziem is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Marius Ştefănescu was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.23. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad16 Nov 2026
No hiding place for Guilherme
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Guilherme, and the manager let it.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Neuton dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.