Corum FK did not want this conversation and are having it anyway. A manager wanted elsewhere is a manager whose next contract talk just became more expensive.
At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.92 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Braian Samudio 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.
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Arda Şengül will call it something else in private.
22 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Corum FK lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Successful dribbles: 26. 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.
Fredy 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.
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.
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Cengiz Dervisoglu after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
Not a new contract, not a new number: a new place in the manager’s thinking, which is the only promotion in football that actually matters. Mame Thiam has moved up it.
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Erzurumspor? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Bodrum FK in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
26 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Corum FK lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Successful dribbles: 14. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Osman Şahin 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 dugout23 Nov 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Cengiz Dervisoglu was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the Corum FK dressing room was either.
84 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Corum FK lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Ronei 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.
Everybody saw it before anybody said it. At 36 the numbers say 3 points down on what he was, and the question for Corum FK is how to handle a man they owe a great deal.
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Adana Demirspor in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Corum FK. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.