Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Fredrick Asare has, at Eyupspor, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Everything agreed with Serikspor, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
Deadline passes with 15 signed and 13 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.
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.
A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Eyupspor will try again when the window opens; Amedspor may not be selling by then.
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.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Keciorengucu have kept their man, and Eyupspor go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Eyupspor will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
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 offer from Gornik Zabrze for Mateusz Łęgowski was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
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.
Tim Jabol-Folcarelli 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.
Eyupspor asked and Galatasaray said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
200 games in this shirt, through managers and relegations and everything else. Service like it is disappearing from the game and the crowd knows what it is watching.
Güven Yalçın 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.
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.
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Semih Demiral has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
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.
Successful dribbles: 18. 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.
A date was given and it came and went. Nobody upstairs will call it a broken promise, and nobody downstairs will call it anything else for a long time.
In brief
Player ratingsNobody on the pitch touched Umut Bozok
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.
Squad9 Aug 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.
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Mateusz Łęgowski trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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.
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Eyupspor. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
Add another name to the list: Rizespor have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Gilbert Mendy. The answer from Eyupspor has not changed — yet.
Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.
Squad2 Aug 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.
He used to be one of the options. He is now one of the men the options are picked around, and the change happened quietly enough that only the dressing room noticed on the day.
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Lucas Calegari signs something — a contract at Eyupspor or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
In brief
The dugoutFethi Özer asks for a word with the manager
The dugoutThe manager makes Taşkın İlter a promise
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.
Eyupspor asked and Besiktas said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad26 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.
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.
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.
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Eyupspor. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
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.
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.
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.
Tim Jabol-Folcarelli 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 academy exists for exactly this morning. Ufuk Akgun has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Erdem Guler is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
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.
The chase for Tim Jabol-Folcarelli ended with $3.9M changing hands and Trabzonspor out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Alanyaspor have kept their man, and Eyupspor go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
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.
It is the least glamorous business a club does and the reason seasons do not collapse in February. Aaron Drinan is here for the weeks when three men are injured and somebody still has to play.
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
Squad28 Jun 2027
5 new faces, and Eyupspor are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Eyupspor have gone to Swindon Town with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
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.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Besiktas have kept their man, and Eyupspor go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad21 Jun 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.
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.
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Mateusz Łęgowski trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $1.2M — a club that wants Fatih Tultak enough to be asked twice.
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Eyupspor have done the hard part with Alanyaspor, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Eyupspor had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Sivasspor, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
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.
Eyupspor asked and Bodrum FK said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
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.
Eyupspor have made the call to Alanyaspor. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
$18.4M on the table at Basaksehir. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Eyupspor asked and Pendikspor said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The offer went to Manisa FK this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Eyupspor have gone to Istanbulspor with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $22.0M — a club that wants Bertuğ Yıldırım enough to be asked twice.
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.
Squad31 May 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.
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Taşkın İlter trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Buğra Çağlıyan has written the date down.
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
“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.
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 Mateusz Łęgowski signs something — a contract at Eyupspor or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Abdou Sy trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Eyupspor will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Taha Tepe has written the date down.
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.
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 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.
“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.
The dugout26 Apr 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 0‑0, and nobody in the Eyupspor dressing room was either.
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.
At 19 he is being measured against the rest of the division's kids and coming out in front. The senior version of this award is where the club would like this to lead.
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.
4 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.
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.
“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.
Squad12 Apr 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.
“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.
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
The dugout12 Apr 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 1‑1, and nobody in the Eyupspor dressing room was either.
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Umut Bozok’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Eyupspor needing him to play as if none of it matters.
In brief
Player ratingsÁngel Torres beats them one at a time
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
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.
“I watch every Eyupspor game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Igdir FK runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
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.
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.
“The easiest signature of my career.” Gilbert Mendy and Eyupspor agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad29 Mar 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.
Besiktas 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.
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
2 in front and in complete control, and it finished with Antalyaspor the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that Eyupspor will enjoy reviewing.
“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.
Successful dribbles: 22. 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mateusz Łęgowski was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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.
9 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.
“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.
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.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Fethi Özer was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 1‑1 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 9 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
8 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.
“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.
Successful dribbles: 21. 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.
Eyupspor asked and Galatasaray said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Burak Bekaroğlu 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.
17 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.
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
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Eyupspor have done the hard part with Volga, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
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.
Eyupspor asked and Serikspor said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Fethi Özer was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The deal with Fenerbahce is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
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.
Eyupspor asked and Corum FK said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The name of Erdem Gökçe has come up in conversations Eyupspor were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
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.
The offer from Igdir FK for Hüseyin Maldar was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
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.
Yusuf Özdemir 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.
Eyupspor asked and Boluspor said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
“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 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.
At 19 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.
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
The name of Hüseyin Maldar has come up in conversations Eyupspor were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
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.
Goztepe left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad28 Dec 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.
Position 12, 17 points, and every result so far reduced to one line. The second half of the season starts with the same squad and a different set of expectations.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
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.
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Umut Bozok’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Eyupspor needing him to play as if none of it matters.
In brief
The dugoutThe plan did not have a place for Luccas Claro
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Eyupspor, and it is not being withdrawn.
“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.
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.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Luccas Claro was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
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.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Somebody else is better right now than Marcos Felipe
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
10 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Kasimpasa were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.
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.
Successful dribbles: 20. 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.
200 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
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.
“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.
In brief
The dugoutMarcos Felipe dropped after a run of poor form
The dugoutMarcos Felipe knocks on the manager’s door
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.
Squad7 Dec 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.
100 games in this shirt, through managers and relegations and everything else. Service like it is disappearing from the game and the crowd knows what it is watching.
It needed Güven Yalçın to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Fatih Karagumruk, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 10 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
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.
“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.
Level with 96 minutes on the clock, after an afternoon Eyupspor had all but put away. Besiktas will call it a point earned; the home dressing room will call it two given away, and both of them are right.
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Luccas Claro 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.
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 11 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
8 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.
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.
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad23 Nov 2026
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.
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Somebody else is better right now than Marcos Felipe
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
“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
Güven Yalçın had done his part in building a 2-goal cushion. What happened after that was collective, and Kayserispor were allowed back into a match that had been finished with.
It finished 0-3. A cup exit is a disappointment; this was a public dismantling, and the difference between the two is the number of people who will still be talking about it in August.
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.
Lucas Calegari 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.
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Eyupspor can tell you which week it ends in.
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad2 Nov 2026
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.
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Salih Tasci after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Squad2 Nov 2026
5 new faces, and Eyupspor are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
In brief
SquadA place in the month's best eleven for Hüseyin Maldar
4 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.
Burak Bekaroğlu 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.
Successful dribbles: 16. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Somebody else is better right now than Marcos Felipe
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
“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.
14 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
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.
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.
At 19 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 Taşkın İlter was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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.
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
1‑3 to Konyaspor, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad5 Oct 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.
“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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
10 new faces, and Eyupspor are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑3, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
In brief
The dugoutThe plan did not have a place for Luccas Claro
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 pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Horaţiu Moldovan, and the manager let it.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Umut Bozok was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.42. 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 this shirt, through managers and relegations and everything else. Service like it is disappearing from the game and the crowd knows what it is watching.
“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.
2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad28 Sep 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 dugout28 Sep 2026
Somebody else is better right now than Marcos Felipe
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Salih Tasci chose the glass-half-full version of 2‑2; the supporters left with the other one.
Dorin Rotariu wins it after the whistle should have gone
95 minutes played. Dorin Rotariu found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Alanyaspor went from a point to nothing inside one movement.
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.
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Dorin Rotariu. 1‑0 against Alanyaspor, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
A mark of 7.95, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
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.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Taşkın İlter was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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.
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.
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.
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.
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Eyupspor have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 15 arrived, 0 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Hüseyin Maldar reports back to Eyupspor with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Lucas Calegari 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.
Eyupspor ran out of time with Corum FK. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.
Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.
Squad7 Sep 2026
10 new faces, and Eyupspor are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Luccas Claro was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Prince Ampem trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $739.4K — a club that wants Dean Liço enough to be asked twice.
Eyupspor have gone to Corum FK with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
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.
Marked 8.08 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
This is not cover and nobody is pretending it is. $4.7M has been paid because Güven Yalçın is straightforwardly better than what was already here, and the club has decided to stop waiting.
“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.
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Burak Bekaroğlu is living that version at Eyupspor, and it tends to show in the first month.
The offer went to Esenler Erokspor this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
The offer went to Boluspor this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $625.6K — a club that wants Ertuğrul Çetin enough to be asked twice.
The fee is $540.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Sakaryaspor drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 13 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
There comes a point where a club either backs its own ambition or admits it does not have any. Eyupspor have paid $7.2M for Yusuf Özdemir, which is the loudest way there is of saying which one it chose.
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 7.64 for the rest of it.
The offer from Erzurumspor for Hüseyin Maldar was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $568.8K — a club that wants Taha Tepe enough to be asked twice.
$490.0K on the table at Igdir FK. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
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.
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.
Yusuf Özdemir was the name on every phone-in, and the club has gone and signed him for $7.2M. For one week the board can do no wrong, which is a week most boards never get.
The clubs have shaken hands with Alanyaspor; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
The offer went to Alanyaspor this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
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.
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Murat Akgun has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Emre Sinik has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Tolga Akgun has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Serdar Calhanoglu has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
In brief
SquadA last season at home is what Luccas Claro is after
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Galatasaray have kept their man, and Eyupspor go back to a list with one name crossed off 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.
Squad3 Aug 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.
“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.