Ertaç Özbir

Goalkeeper - Ankaragucu
19 Sep 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Ertaç Özbir

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The Ankaragucu Post

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

A hiding for Ankaragucu

Beaten 0‑3 by Fatih Karagumruk, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Transfer targets

Fee done, terms next for Jadel Katongo

Ankaragucu and Kayserispor have settled on $1.7M. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.

Squad

Cássio gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Cássio has just signed for Ankaragucu, and for once the answer mattered.

Transfer targets

Istanbulspor tell Ankaragucu: Yusuf Özer 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.

Squad

Words exchanged at Ankaragucu

Ítalo Pica-Pau 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.

Boardroom

Inquest at Ankaragucu

The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.

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 0‑3 defeat, delivered by Mustafa Muldur to a room that had heard them before.

Transfer targets

Ankaragucu ask about Sinan Bakış

A loan enquiry to Zaragoza: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Player ratings

Alan Cardoso was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 13. 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.

In brief

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4 Edition

The Ankaragucu Post

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Ertaç Özbir

There were 10 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Market

Ahmet Emre Polat puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Ankaragucu, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets

Cássio due for a Ankaragucu medical

Everything agreed with another club, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Transfer targets

Dinis Rodrigues will not be coming to Ankaragucu

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Napoli is saying, and nobody at Ankaragucu is enjoying the guessing.

Squad

Tempers go at Ankaragucu

Diogo Ferreira 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.

Transfer targets

Trabzonspor tell Ankaragucu: René Mitongo 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

Alanyaspor take the points off Ankaragucu

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout

Mustafa Muldur: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

Squad

The formation has left Mateus Anderson behind

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

In brief