Maestro

Defensive Midfielder - Alanyaspor
22 Aug 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Maestro

3 Edition

The Adana Demirspor Gazette

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Ramón Lentini

126 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Adana Demirspor lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

A move Dixon Vera would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Dixon Vera is living that version at Adana Demirspor, and it tends to show in the first month.

Transfer targets

Alanyaspor tell Adana Demirspor: Maestro 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.

Boardroom

1 academy graduates step up at Adana Demirspor

Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.

Squad

Words at Adana Demirspor training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dixon Vera 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.

Market

One of our own: Mehmet Ozdemir joins the Adana Demirspor first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Mehmet Ozdemir is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Squad

The formation has left Luiz Adriano behind

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

Market

Adana Demirspor and Dixon Vera are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Match

Adana Demirspor share the spoils with Amedspor

A 2‑2 draw with Amedspor leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The Alanyaspor Gazette

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Market

Alanyaspor turn down Adana Demirspor for Ruan

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Paulo Victor

There were 7 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.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Arda Okan Kurtulan

Alanyaspor asked and Goztepe said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Transfer targets

Alanyaspor agree $170.0K for Salih Malkoçoğlu

The clubs have shaken hands with Trabzonspor; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.

Player ratings

Maestro goes up and wins it — 7.75

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.75 for the rest of it.

Boardroom

Alanyaspor go back to the board over Necip Uysal

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $16.7K — a club that wants Necip Uysal enough to be asked twice.

Squad

Words exchanged at Alanyaspor

Ruan 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.

Transfer targets

Alanyaspor make their move for Necip Uysal

$15.0K on the table at Besiktas. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Match

Alanyaspor get the job done against Antalyaspor

A 2‑1 win over Antalyaspor, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

In brief