Ryan Jack

Defensive Midfielder - Esenler Erokspor
2 Feb 2027
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Ryan Jack

8 Edition

The Esenler Erokspor Gazette

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Esenler Erokspor bow out of the cup

Umraniyespor go through and Esenler Erokspor go home, 0‑1 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

Player ratings

Zé Vitor runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 30. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

The step up is real for Anísio Cabral

At 18 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Match

4 matches without a win for Esenler Erokspor

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Esenler Erokspor are no longer polite ones.

Match

4 matches without a goal for Esenler Erokspor

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Squad

A falling-out at Esenler Erokspor

Anísio Cabral and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

A move João Rafael would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. João Rafael is living that version at Esenler Erokspor, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad

Ryan Jack 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 dugout

Ufuk Kabak: “We have to be better”

“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

In brief

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5 Edition

The Esenler Erokspor Gazette

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Transfer targets

Ivan Mandić turns down Esenler Erokspor

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Casa Pia keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad

A falling-out at Esenler Erokspor

Guélor Kanga and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

A row about effort at Esenler Erokspor

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ryan Jack was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets

Casa Pia tell Esenler Erokspor: Ivan Mandić 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.

Match

Corum FK take the points off Esenler Erokspor

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout

Ömer Beyaz 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.

Squad

The formation has left Zé Vitor behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Esenler Erokspor will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

Market

Still no ink between Esenler Erokspor and Zé Vitor

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Esenler Erokspor, another week without a signature from Zé Vitor.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑2 defeat, delivered by Ufuk Kabak to a room that had heard them before.

In brief

2 Edition

The Esenler Erokspor Gazette

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Gaziantep come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Esenler Erokspor did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

Thalis arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Thalis has, at Esenler Erokspor, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Squad

Ertuğrul Çetin stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Ertuğrul Çetin and Esenler Erokspor agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

A falling-out at Esenler Erokspor

Guélor Kanga and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Words at Esenler Erokspor training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ryan Jack 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.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Kojo Peprah Oppong

Esenler Erokspor asked and Fenerbahce said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market

One of our own: Mustafa Kokcu joins the Esenler Erokspor first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Mustafa Kokcu is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

One of our own: Alper Sahin joins the Esenler Erokspor first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Alper Sahin is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

One of our own: Salih Akgun joins the Esenler Erokspor first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Salih Akgun is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief