The Hatayspor Courier
Squad17 Aug 2026
6 saves: Arda Özçimen was the team
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Baran Sarka goes up and wins it — 7.73
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 7.73 for the rest of it.
Market17 Aug 2026
Adana Demirspor come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Hatayspor did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Giovane Gomes 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 Hatayspor this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match15 Aug 2026
Hatayspor come up short against Corum FK
Corum FK left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Martijn Berden 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Door shut on Jovan Marković
Hatayspor asked and Farul Constanța 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 dugout17 Aug 2026
Rafael Gladiador 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Chandrel Massanga wants to go home
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Hatayspor can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
In brief
- Market Talks stall between Hatayspor and Deyson Copete
- The dugout Erkan Ucar faces the questions
- Boardroom Hatayspor say no to the training-ground money