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Crisis
Match6 Feb 2027
The wait goes on for Hatayspor
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.
Market8 Feb 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Hatayspor can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
At 39 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.80, and nobody on the pitch better.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
The paperwork begins on Halil Bağcı
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Hatayspor have done the hard part with Gaziantep, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Taylan Özgün has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Squad8 Feb 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Funsho Bamgboye and Hatayspor agree another 3 years.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Simão Bertelli and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Hatayspor
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Filip Mevlja was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
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.
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Uneasy
Squad1 Feb 2027
14 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Hatayspor lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market1 Feb 2027
“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 The request is on a desk at Hatayspor, and it is not being withdrawn.
Boardroom1 Feb 2027
Deadline passes with 1 signed and 1 gone
That is the business done at Hatayspor 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.
Market1 Feb 2027
Taylan Özgün has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Hatayspor they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at Hatayspor
Simão Bertelli 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 targets1 Feb 2027
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.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
Yasir Subaşı is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Words at Hatayspor training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sharif Osman 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.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
A loan enquiry to Gaziantep: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
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Crisis
Squad25 Jan 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 14 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Tunahan Taşçı damages knee ligaments — 23 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 23 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match23 Jan 2027
Nowhere to hide for Hatayspor
0‑8 against Besiktas, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Match23 Jan 2027
7 matches without a win for Hatayspor
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Hatayspor are no longer polite ones.
Market25 Jan 2027
“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.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
No thanks: Jesse Bal rejects the move
Hatayspor had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at ADO Den Haag, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Simão Bertelli 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.
Match23 Jan 2027
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 Hatayspor and Besiktas in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Match23 Jan 2027
Hatayspor cannot find the net
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.
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Crisis
Squad18 Jan 2027
32 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Hatayspor lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 11 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match16 Jan 2027
Nowhere to hide for Hatayspor
0‑4 against Galatasaray, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Match18 Jan 2027
Hatayspor sink to position 17
9 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Match16 Jan 2027
No end in sight to Hatayspor's wait for a win
6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Hatayspor has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad18 Jan 2027
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.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Kasimpasa have kept their man, and Hatayspor go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Simão Bertelli
“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.
Boardroom18 Jan 2027
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
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Crisis
Squad11 Jan 2027
41 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Hatayspor lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match9 Jan 2027
Nowhere to hide for Hatayspor
0‑3 against Kayserispor, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market11 Jan 2027
“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.
Match9 Jan 2027
No end in sight to Hatayspor's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Hatayspor has to find a result from somewhere.
Market11 Jan 2027
Giresunspor 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.
Boardroom11 Jan 2027
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Cenk Doğan has agreed terms with Istanbulspor for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad11 Jan 2027
The step up is real for Emir Dadük
At 18 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Simão Bertelli and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
In brief
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Transfer targets
Door shut on Kenneth Paal
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Boardroom
Nobody left the Hatayspor dressing room in a hurry
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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Uneasy
Market4 Jan 2027
“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 Hatayspor, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market4 Jan 2027
Giresunspor 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Edvan pulls a muscle — 14 days out
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 14 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
Match2 Jan 2027
The wait goes on for Hatayspor
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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Hatayspor
Simão Bertelli 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Home is on Jacsson's mind
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Hatayspor are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
Hatayspor 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.
Market4 Jan 2027
Add another name to the list: Giresunspor have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Taylan Özgün. The answer from Hatayspor has not changed — yet.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Words at Hatayspor training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jacsson 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.
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Crisis
Squad28 Dec 2026
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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Simão Bertelli 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.
Match26 Dec 2026
The goals have deserted Hatayspor
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Hatayspor can tell you which week it ends in.
Match26 Dec 2026
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
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Squad28 Dec 2026
Words at Hatayspor training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jacsson 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.
Match28 Dec 2026
The half-term report on Hatayspor
Position 17, 8 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 supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Recep Burak Yılmaz, and the manager let it.
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Crisis
Squad21 Dec 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 11 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match19 Dec 2026
Nowhere to hide for Hatayspor
0‑4 against Kasimpasa, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Match21 Dec 2026
Every point is an argument now for Hatayspor
Position 17 and 8 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Squad21 Dec 2026
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.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Simão Bertelli
“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.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Boardroom21 Dec 2026
Nobody left the Hatayspor dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑4, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Sharif Osman 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.
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Crisis
Squad14 Dec 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 14 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Simão Bertelli and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match12 Dec 2026
Sivasspor left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Market14 Dec 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Erkan Tokoz 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.
Market14 Dec 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Caner Inan 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
A muscle injury and 15 days out for Seyit Gazanfer
The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Hatayspor will quote 15 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Jacsson 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.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Jacsson 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.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Kerem Kokcu after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
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Uneasy
Market7 Dec 2026
“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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Hatayspor
Simão Bertelli 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 ratings7 Dec 2026
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.
Match5 Dec 2026
5 matches without a win, and then this, against Umraniyespor. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.
Match5 Dec 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Maxwell. 1‑0 against Umraniyespor, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Jacsson 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Birhan Vatansever commits to Hatayspor for another 3 years.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Nobody on the pitch touched Maxwell
7.91, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Hatayspor had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Squad7 Dec 2026
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.
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Crisis
Match28 Nov 2026
Beaten 0‑3 by Alanyaspor, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Squad30 Nov 2026
8 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Match28 Nov 2026
No end in sight to Hatayspor's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Hatayspor has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Simão Bertelli 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 dugout30 Nov 2026
No hiding place for Maxwell
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Maxwell, and the manager let it.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
The dugout30 Nov 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 0‑3 Kerem Kokcu left the room before anybody could ask which.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words at Hatayspor training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ali Yıldız 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 dugout30 Nov 2026
The form table has caught Jacsson
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.
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Uneasy
Squad23 Nov 2026
7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Match21 Nov 2026
The wait goes on for Hatayspor
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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Jacsson 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.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“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.
Match21 Nov 2026
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 dugout23 Nov 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.” Kerem Kokcu chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Somebody else is better right now than Jacsson
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.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 12. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
In brief
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The dugout
Maxwell asks for a word with the manager
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Squad
Edvan speaks, and the room listens
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Player ratings
Musa Danjuma on a tightrope all afternoon
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Crisis
Squad16 Nov 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 12 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match14 Nov 2026
Chastening afternoon for Hatayspor
A 1‑4 beating by Fenerbahce was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Simão Bertelli 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
Jacsson 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.
Boardroom16 Nov 2026
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Kerem Kokcu after 1‑4, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Prince Ating, and the manager let it.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Jacsson dropped after a run of poor form
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 dugout16 Nov 2026
The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
In brief
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Player ratings
Maxwell runs at them all day
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Squad
The room hears from Edvan
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Player ratings
The referee tires of Musa Danjuma
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Crisis
Match9 Nov 2026
Hatayspor are in real trouble now
Position 18, 4 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Market9 Nov 2026
“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 Hatayspor, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Hatayspor
Simão Bertelli 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.
Match7 Nov 2026
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words at Hatayspor training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sharif Osman 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 dugout9 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Seyit Gazanfer, and the manager let it.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
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.
Looking ahead9 Nov 2026
Hatayspor take on the side everybody is chasing
Fenerbahce arrive as leaders. A side at the top is beaten roughly once a month, and the club that does it gets a week it remembers for a year.
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Crisis
Squad2 Nov 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 25 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Simão Bertelli 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.
Match31 Oct 2026
Trabzonspor left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Hatayspor
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jacsson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Appearance number 100 for Baran Sarka
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.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
No hiding place for Jacsson
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jacsson, and the manager let it.
Market2 Nov 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Hatayspor, another week without a signature from Simão Bertelli.
The dugout2 Nov 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 1‑3 Kerem Kokcu left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
The form table has caught Jacsson
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.
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Uneasy
Match24 Oct 2026
10 matches without a win, and then this, against Ankaragucu. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.
Squad26 Oct 2026
6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Squad26 Oct 2026
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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Hatayspor
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Edvan was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The terraces26 Oct 2026
He is 19 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Funsho Bamgboye’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Hatayspor.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Ninety minutes of Funsho Bamgboye at his very best
Marked 8.03. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Hatayspor.
Squad26 Oct 2026
100 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
In brief
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The dugout
A satisfied Kerem Kokcu
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The dugout
The manager makes an example of Vefa Temel
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The dugout
Somebody else is better right now than Jacsson
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Crisis
Squad19 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 11 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match17 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Hatayspor
10 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Emir Dadük is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
A hand in 2 of them from Maxwell — 7.63
Marked 7.63. There is a kind of forward whose value only shows up when you count what he was involved in rather than what he finished, and this is the day that argument makes itself.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Simão Bertelli and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match17 Oct 2026
2‑3 to Konyaspor, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Hatayspor
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Edvan was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Taylan Özgün was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.16. 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
Conceding is one thing; the response is what tells you about a dressing room. Maxwell had Hatayspor level again within 1 minutes, and Konyaspor never got to play with a lead at all.
In brief
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The dugout
No hiding place for Baran Sarka
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The dugout
Kerem Kokcu: “No excuses”
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The dugout
Edvan is still being punished for one mistake
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Uneasy
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 43. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match10 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Hatayspor's wait for a win
9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Hatayspor has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Ali Yıldız is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Hatayspor
Simão Bertelli 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.
Match10 Oct 2026
The goals have deserted Hatayspor
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Hatayspor can tell you which week it ends in.
Market12 Oct 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Kenan Topcu 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
The medical room confirms 37 days on the sidelines for Eren Güler, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Maxwell
“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 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Hatayspor
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Onur Ayık was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Crisis
Match3 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Hatayspor
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.
Match3 Oct 2026
Hatayspor leaking at the back
8 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.
Squad5 Oct 2026
There were 6 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.
Market5 Oct 2026
Taylan Özgün hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Hatayspor can pretend not to have heard.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Simão Bertelli 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
Adana Demirspor left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Jacsson
“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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Onur Ayık 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.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Kerem Kokcu after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
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Crisis
Match26 Sep 2026
Beaten 0‑3 by Fatih Karagumruk, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match26 Sep 2026
No end in sight to Hatayspor's wait for a win
7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Hatayspor has to find a result from somewhere.
Match26 Sep 2026
No clean sheets in sight for Hatayspor
7 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.
Squad28 Sep 2026
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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Mücahit Serbest is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 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 dugout28 Sep 2026
“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.
Boardroom28 Sep 2026
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
Squad28 Sep 2026
11 new faces, and Hatayspor 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
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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The dugout
Somebody else is better right now than Jacsson
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Looking ahead
A reunion for Hakan Çinemre
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Crisis
Match16 Sep 2026
The cup run ends for Hatayspor
3‑4 against Istanbulspor, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Squad21 Sep 2026
3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
No sign of nerves from Prince Ating at 19 — 8.90
The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Prince Ating did not need any: 8.90, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match16 Sep 2026
No end in sight to Hatayspor's wait for a win
6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Hatayspor has to find a result from somewhere.
Match16 Sep 2026
No clean sheets in sight for Hatayspor
6 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Simão Bertelli and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match16 Sep 2026
7 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Hatayspor and Istanbulspor in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Transfer targets21 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Grasshopper have kept their man, and Hatayspor go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
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Crisis
Squad14 Sep 2026
There were 11 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Chastening afternoon for Hatayspor
A 0‑4 beating by Besiktas was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Match12 Sep 2026
No end in sight to Hatayspor's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Hatayspor has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Hatayspor
Simão Bertelli 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
No clean sheets in sight for Hatayspor
5 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Edvan 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 targets14 Sep 2026
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.
Market14 Sep 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Sinan Yildirim is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Ali Yıldız and Hatayspor agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
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Crisis
Squad7 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 15 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match5 Sep 2026
Nowhere to hide for Hatayspor
0‑5 against Galatasaray, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Market7 Sep 2026
Taylan Özgün hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Hatayspor can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Hatayspor close the window on a squad of their own making
25 in and 0 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Hatayspor had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Napoli, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Match5 Sep 2026
4 matches without a win for Hatayspor
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Hatayspor are no longer polite ones.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Simão Bertelli 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Edvan 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 targets7 Sep 2026
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.
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Crisis
Match29 Aug 2026
Chastening afternoon for Hatayspor
A 1‑4 beating by Kayserispor was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market31 Aug 2026
“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 Hatayspor, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Hatayspor had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Mouscron, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad31 Aug 2026
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.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
$39.0K was the most the club would pay and Konyaspor were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Hatayspor asked and FC Copenhagen 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 dugout31 Aug 2026
“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.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
In brief
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Squad
Words at Hatayspor training over how hard people work
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The dugout
Kerem Kokcu faces the questions
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Transfer targets
A loan move for Lee Young-Jun is in the works
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Crisis
Squad24 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market24 Aug 2026
“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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
$1.6M was the most the club would pay and Atlanta United FC were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Market24 Aug 2026
The fee is $490.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Istanbulspor drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Simão Bertelli and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Hatayspor asked and Antalyaspor said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Match22 Aug 2026
0‑2 to Gaziantep, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
Yılmaz Cin 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Onur Ayık 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.
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Crisis
Match15 Aug 2026
0‑7 to Basaksehir, 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Hatayspor have gone to Atlanta United FC 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Everything agreed with Istanbulspor, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Hatayspor
Simão Bertelli 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 targets17 Aug 2026
An offer of $36.0K for Eren Yağmur
Hatayspor have gone to Konyaspor 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 7 goals between Hatayspor and Basaksehir, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. 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.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Edvan
“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.
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Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
Hatayspor spend $930.0K to raise the standard
This is not cover and nobody is pretending it is. $930.0K has been paid because Tunahan Taşçı is straightforwardly better than what was already here, and the club has decided to stop waiting.
Market10 Aug 2026
Konyaspor did not want to sell and the number is why they did. $520.0K for Yasir Subaşı, and the expectation that arrives with him is the kind no amount of settling-in period softens.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Atakan Özenir commits to Hatayspor for another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Alper Ozcan 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Fatih Kahveci 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Hatayspor training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Onur Ayık 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
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.
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Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
Simão Bertelli arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Simão Bertelli has, at Hatayspor, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Market3 Aug 2026
“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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Hatayspor have gone to Konyaspor 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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Gaziantep have kept their man, and Hatayspor go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
$520.0K on the table at Konyaspor. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Baran Sarka and Hatayspor agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Emir Dadük 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Hatayspor, another week without a signature from Simão Bertelli.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Hatayspor
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Onur Ayık was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.