Emre Kaplan

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15 Mar 2027
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The Umraniyespor Post

1 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The wait goes on for Umraniyespor

11 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Match

Umraniyespor taken apart

0‑8 to Galatasaray, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

The terraces

18th and falling: the mood at Umraniyespor has gone

19 points and a position everybody in the ground can do the arithmetic on. The songs have stopped being about the team and started being about surviving, which is a different noise entirely.

Match

Umraniyespor are shipping goals every week

Two or more conceded in each of the last 6 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.

Squad

A long afternoon for Cihan Topaloğlu

Beaten 8 times, with 3 saves for company. Goalkeepers carry these scorelines on their record whoever actually caused them, which is the quiet injustice of the job.

Squad

Tempers go at Umraniyespor

Cebio Soukou 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.

Match

Nobody could stop scoring

8 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Umraniyespor and Galatasaray in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

Squad

Words at Umraniyespor training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Engjëll Hoti 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.

Squad

Emre Kaplan gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

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The Umraniyespor Post

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Kubilay Aktaş asks to leave Umraniyespor

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Boardroom

The Umraniyespor board want somebody sold

The instruction has come from upstairs rather than from the dugout, which is the version of this conversation no manager enjoys. Somebody in that squad is now available whether the man who picks the team thinks so or not.

Match

4 matches without a win for Umraniyespor

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Umraniyespor are no longer polite ones.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Barış Ekincier

Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Umraniyespor lose Atalay Babacan

52 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad

Engjëll Hoti 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

Erdem Çetinkaya in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Umraniyespor this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Umraniyespor come up short against Ankaragucu

Ankaragucu left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Emre Kaplan

“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.

In brief