The Esenler Erokspor Gazette
Squad20 Sep 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Mbaye Diagne
81 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Esenler Erokspor lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match15 Sep 2027
The small margins put Esenler Erokspor out
Out, 1‑2 to Pendikspor, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
The dugout20 Sep 2027
Onur Ulaş keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Esenler Erokspor may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market20 Sep 2027
Vinicius Balieiro has his eye on Europe
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Esenler Erokspor can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Tempers go at Esenler Erokspor
Ronaldo 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 dugout20 Sep 2027
No hiding place for Tarık Çetin
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Tarık Çetin, and the manager let it.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Moryké Fofana 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.
Player ratings20 Sep 2027
Nobody could get near Yusuf İnci
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad20 Sep 2027
No place for Moryké Fofana in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Esenler Erokspor are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
In brief
- Loan watch Harun Genç has seen enough of Umraniyespor
- The dugout The view from the dugout
- The dugout Esenler Erokspor pick somebody else ahead of Yunus Emre Gedik