The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Salih Tasci has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.
Nothing has been announced and everybody understands what it means. A board that summons the whole football department on a Tuesday morning is a board that has stopped believing the problem will fix itself.
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Eyupspor are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Mateusz Łęgowski 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.
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Emre Akbaba commits to Eyupspor for another 2 years.
Squad8 May 2028
Words at Eyupspor training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Fredrick Asare 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.
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Yusuf Özdemir signs something — a contract at Eyupspor or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Successful dribbles: 31. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Player ratings17 Apr 2028
A brace, and Güven Yalçın takes the afternoon — 8.99
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Güven Yalçın provided it, and the 8.99 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Eyupspor this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Apr 2028
Words at Eyupspor training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Fredrick Asare 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.
Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Emre Akbaba.
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Salih Tasci on a 2‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
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.
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout20 Mar 2028
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Salih Tasci left the room before anybody could ask which.
Squad20 Mar 2028
Words at Eyupspor training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sebastián Giraldo 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.
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.
Mateusz Łęgowski 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Fredrick Asare was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Eyupspor can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
7.98, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Eyupspor had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
The dugout13 Mar 2028
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Salih Tasci, on a 1‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Salih Tasci has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.
Nothing has been announced and everybody understands what it means. A board that summons the whole football department on a Tuesday morning is a board that has stopped believing the problem will fix itself.
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Eyupspor can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Mateusz Łęgowski 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Tim Jabol-Folcarelli was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Gaziantep left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout6 Mar 2028
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Salih Tasci left the room before anybody could ask which.
He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Eyupspor pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.
Emre Akbaba 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.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Esenler Erokspor have kept their man, and Eyupspor go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Baran Gezek 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.
8.15. 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.
100 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Umut Meraş was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
16 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
In brief
The dugoutThe manager’s verdict
Player ratingsPrince Ampem beats them one at a time
Güven Yalçın had done his part in building a 2-goal cushion. What happened after that was collective, and Kasimpasa were allowed back into a match that had been finished with.
Player ratings27 Dec 2027
A brace, and Güven Yalçın takes the afternoon — 8.94
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Güven Yalçın provided it, and the 8.94 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Lucas Calegari 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.
Successful dribbles: 17. 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.
2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
The dugout27 Dec 2027
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Salih Tasci was not hiding it after 2‑2, and nobody in the Eyupspor dressing room was either.
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Eyupspor know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 19 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
“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.
Something was said to Hamza Čataković and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Sivasspor defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Eyupspor have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Eyupspor will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Eyupspor this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
“I watch every Eyupspor game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Trabzonspor runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
At 20 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Eyupspor will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Emre Akbaba 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.
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Salih Tasci after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Something was said to Dorin Rotariu and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
In brief
The dugoutErdem Gökçe dropped after a run of poor form
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Eyupspor this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Eyupspor can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
“I watch every Eyupspor game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Rizespor runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Samsunspor next, and one man in the Eyupspor dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Eyupspor would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Eyupspor has been clear about where Jonah te Fruchte stands, which is more than many ever get.
Nobody at Eyupspor will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Emre Akbaba trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Umut Bozok signs something — a contract at Eyupspor or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
“I am not asking anybody to be better than they are. I am asking everybody to be as good as they are, every week.” Said out loud, in front of everybody, and the room at Eyupspor was different afterwards.
In brief
Player ratingsThe afternoon ran through Umut Bozok
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Eyupspor this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad18 Oct 2027
Words at Eyupspor training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Fredrick Asare 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.
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Güven Yalçın. 1‑0 against Rizespor, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Salih Tasci could afford to be generous.
In brief
The dugoutEmre Akbaba knocks on the manager's door
Güven Yalçın 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.
“I watch every Eyupspor game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Sakaryaspor runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The dugout4 Oct 2027
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑2 Salih Tasci left the room before anybody could ask which.
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Mateusz Łęgowski has come out of that comparison in the side, and Eyupspor have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
Successful dribbles: 14. 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.
It will be explained as a change for the team and it may even be one. Nobody who has worn one believes that, and neither does the man who has just had it taken away.
Up for the corner, and Baran Gezek delivers — 7.78
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Baran Gezek scored, was marked 7.78, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Mateusz Łęgowski 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.
A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Eyupspor will try again when the window opens; Serikspor may not be selling by then.
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
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.
7 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
“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.
The fee is $1.4M, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Esenler Erokspor drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Mateusz Łęgowski 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 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.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Words at Eyupspor training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lucas Calegari 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.
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Eyupspor are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Eyupspor told Taşkın İlter something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Eyupspor know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Everything agreed with Esenler Erokspor, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Mateusz Łęgowski 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 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.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Fethi Özer 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.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Eyupspor, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Eyupspor know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Mateusz Łęgowski 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Lucas Calegari was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Eyupspor know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Eyupspor, and both men came out saying it was fine.
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Eyupspor can pretend not to have heard.
Emre Akbaba 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.
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Yusuf Özdemir signs something — a contract at Eyupspor or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
In brief
The dugoutMarcos Felipe knocks on the manager’s door
The last league game has been played and the table has stopped moving: 34 points. The summer begins on Monday, and so does the argument about what it all meant.
Squad3 May 2027
Words at Eyupspor training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mateusz Łęgowski 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.
Goztepe left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout3 May 2027
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑2 Salih Tasci left the room before anybody could ask which.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Eyupspor, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Successful dribbles: 14. 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.
Two goals and a mark of 9.13 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Eyupspor can pretend not to have heard.
Mateusz Łęgowski 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.
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 19-year-old it feels ownership of. Abdou Sy 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.
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Words at Eyupspor training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Fethi Özer 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.
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Salih Tasci on a 3‑1 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
Nobody at Eyupspor is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
1‑4 against Galatasaray, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Emre Akbaba 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Lucas Calegari was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Something was said to Mert Müldür and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
The dugout22 Mar 2027
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑4 Salih Tasci left the room before anybody could ask which.
Successful dribbles: 15. 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.
Successful dribbles: 36. 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.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Eyupspor this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
At 22 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Lucas Calegari was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Eyupspor pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Salih Tasci after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
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.
At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.18 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Eyupspor know it.
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 17 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Every long career reaches the week the player starts thinking about the last one. He would like it to be at the club that first put him on a pitch, and Eyupspor now know that too.
In brief
The dugoutThe manager makes an example of Luccas Claro
A brace, and Güven Yalçın takes the afternoon — 9.34
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Güven Yalçın provided it, and the 9.34 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.12 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.
9 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Gaziantep were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.
Mateusz Łęgowski 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Lucas Calegari was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
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.
1 for Mateusz Łęgowski, marked 7.72, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Boardroom1 Feb 2027
Deadline passes with 2 signed and 2 gone
That is the business done at Eyupspor until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
11 combined actions and 6.78. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
In brief
SquadWords at Eyupspor training over how hard people work
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Eyupspor have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Mateusz Łęgowski and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words at Eyupspor training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lucas Calegari 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.
Something was said to Yusuf Özdemir and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
One weekend, judged against everybody else's. Güven Yalçın has come out on top of it, and for most footballers a weekly award is the only silverware a career ever produces.
Galatasaray next, and one man in the Eyupspor dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Mateusz Łęgowski signs something — a contract at Eyupspor or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Burak Bekaroğlu has done the arithmetic and does not like the answer. Nothing corrodes a squad faster, and no club has ever solved it by explaining the wage structure to a footballer.
In brief
The dugoutLenny Pintor knocks on the manager’s door
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Jankat Yılmaz is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Mateusz Łęgowski and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Eyupspor training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luccas Claro 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.
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.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Salih Tasci was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Eyupspor dressing room was either.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Eyupspor, and both men came out saying it was fine.