From our football correspondent
Triumph
Squad12 Oct 2026
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Kasimpasa will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad12 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 Kasimpasa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match10 Oct 2026
Still nobody has beaten Kasimpasa
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Match10 Oct 2026
Basaksehir made Kasimpasa work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Ninety minutes of Jesurun Rak-Sakyi at his very best
Marked 8.30. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Kasimpasa.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Ninety minutes of İrfan Can Kahveci at his very best
Marked 8.31. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Kasimpasa.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Kerem Demirbay, and the manager let it.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Kenan Unai kept it short after the 2‑1 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
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Upbeat
Match3 Oct 2026
5‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 55 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.55 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad5 Oct 2026
İrfan Can Kahveci and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Adrian Benedyczak was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.63. 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.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Marked 8.41 — 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.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Marked 8.43 — 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Kasimpasa
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Haris Hajradinović was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Kerem Demirbay slips down the pecking order
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Kerem Demirbay is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
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Upbeat
Squad28 Sep 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 64 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Kasimpasa
İrfan Can Kahveci 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 ratings28 Sep 2026
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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Haris Hajradinović 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 dugout28 Sep 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.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Kenan Unai: “We have to be better”
“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.
Match26 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Sivasspor will be the happier side with the point.
Looking ahead28 Sep 2026
Ankaragucu next, and one man in the Kasimpasa dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
No place in the plan for Cenk Tosun
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.
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Upbeat
Squad21 Sep 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Kasimpasa will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match19 Sep 2026
Kasimpasa make it 3 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Kasimpasa have 3 straight wins of it.
Squad21 Sep 2026
İrfan Can Kahveci 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The medical room confirms 16 days on the sidelines for Kerem Demirbay, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match19 Sep 2026
A 2‑0 win over Umraniyespor, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.39, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
A performance of 8.16 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
In brief
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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The dugout
The manager has not finished forgetting Andri Fannar Baldursson's mistake
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Squad
Words at Kasimpasa training over how hard people work
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Upbeat
Squad14 Sep 2026
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Kasimpasa will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Age has not caught Cenk Tosun yet — 7.98
At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.98 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Match12 Sep 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Fousseni Diabaté. 3‑2 against Alanyaspor, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Andreas Gianniotis, and the manager let it.
Market14 Sep 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Baris Bayindir is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
A performance of 8.19 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.17, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Marked 8.11 — 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.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 3‑2, Kenan Unai could afford to be generous.
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Upbeat
Squad7 Sep 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 88 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Deadline passes with 13 signed and 1 gone
That is the business done at Kasimpasa 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.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Antalyaspor have kept their man, and Kasimpasa go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match5 Sep 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Jesurun Rak-Sakyi’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Kasimpasa.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Marked 8.18 — 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Adem Arous 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 Kasimpasa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Kenan Unai could afford to be generous.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Every signing waits for it and every press conference asks about it until it comes. It has come, Kasimpasa have their man off the mark, and the second one is always easier.
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Crisis
Squad31 Aug 2026
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Kasimpasa will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market31 Aug 2026
Giresunspor come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Kasimpasa did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Kasimpasa offered $1.4M; Antalyaspor said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Kasimpasa
İrfan Can Kahveci 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Fenerbahce left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad31 Aug 2026
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.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
Adem Arous 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Elson Mendes 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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Upbeat
Match22 Aug 2026
5‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Kasimpasa will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad24 Aug 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Kasimpasa say no — this time
The offer from Trabzonspor for Kerem Demirbay 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Kasimpasa offered $3.7M; Basaksehir said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The medical room confirms 51 days on the sidelines for Kerem Demirbay, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad24 Aug 2026
İrfan Can Kahveci 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
$130.0K on the table at Galatasaray. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Ninety minutes of Adrian Benedyczak at his very best
Marked 9.67. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Kasimpasa.
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Crisis
Squad17 Aug 2026
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Kasimpasa will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match15 Aug 2026
Beaten 0‑3 by Trabzonspor, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Market17 Aug 2026
The bid was some way short and Kasimpasa did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Kasimpasa offered $5.5M; Konyaspor said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
$870.0K on the table at Antalyaspor. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Squad17 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 Kasimpasa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Kasimpasa asked and Gaziantep said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Nobody left the Kasimpasa 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 dugout17 Aug 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑3, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
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Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Kasimpasa will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Kasimpasa 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 targets10 Aug 2026
Kasimpasa 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The offer went to Basaksehir 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Cláudio Winck and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Adrian Benedyczak and Kasimpasa agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Kasimpasa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. İrfan Can Kahveci 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Oguzhan Unai is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Abdullah Tufan 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.
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Steady
Market3 Aug 2026
Giresunspor come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Kasimpasa did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Cláudio Winck commits to Kasimpasa for another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
İrfan Can Kahveci and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Kasimpasa asked and Gimnasia La Plata said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market3 Aug 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Cláudio Winck’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
KAA Gent have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.