Luis Pérez

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29 Aug 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Luis Pérez

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The Gaziantep Gazette

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Gaziantep say no — this time

The offer from Trabzonspor for Luis Pérez was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Boardroom

Gaziantep go back to the board over Hüseyin Türkmen

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $344.9K — a club that wants Hüseyin Türkmen enough to be asked twice.

Transfer targets

Gaziantep make their move for Hüseyin Türkmen

$300.0K on the table at Antalyaspor. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Transfer targets

Gaziantep baulk at the price for Muhammed Şengezer

Basaksehir wanted more than $480.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Transfer targets

Gaziantep bid $110.0K for Hamza Güreler

The offer went to Basaksehir this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Transfer targets

Gaziantep rebuffed over Ertuğrul Çetin

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

Squad

Drissa Camara 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

Words exchanged at Gaziantep

Nihad Mujakić and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

The dugout

No hiding place for Trivante Stewart

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

In brief

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The Gaziantep Gazette

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Alexandru Maxim signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Alexandru Maxim and Gaziantep agree another 2 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Gaziantep

Sontje Hansen 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

Words at Gaziantep training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Drissa Camara 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.

Market

Still no ink between Gaziantep and Alexandru Maxim

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

Market

The clock runs on Luis Pérez's contract

36 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.

Squad

7 new faces, and Gaziantep are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

In brief