The Goztepe Herald
Match3 Oct 2026
Goztepe make it 3 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Goztepe have 3 straight wins of it.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Héliton shuts the door
Defensive actions: 21, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Loan watch5 Oct 2026
Arda Özçimen has seen enough of Boluspor
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Goztepe, and 1 appearances in 6 say he has earned the hearing.
The terraces5 Oct 2026
One of their own: Arda Okan Kurtulan
He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Match3 Oct 2026
Goztepe see off Basaksehir
Three points for Goztepe, 1‑0 the final word against Basaksehir in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Onur Ayık is not the player he was
It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 37 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Allan Godói wants to go home
“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 Goztepe know it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Goztepe
Mateusz Lis 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.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Juan Santos was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.03. 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.
In brief
- Player ratings Malcom Bokélé was immovable
- Squad Héliton falls out with a teammate over standards
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Jeh