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Steady
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 40. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Transfer targets15 Feb 2027
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Olimpia is saying, and nobody at Kasimpasa is enjoying the guessing.
Squad15 Feb 2027
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.
Transfer targets15 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.
Loan watch15 Feb 2027
“I watch every Kasimpasa game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Adana Demirspor runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Words at Kasimpasa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matei Ilie 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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
6 goals and a season average of 7.21. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Kenan Unai after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Kubilay Kanatsızkuş, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 52. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 17 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Kasimpasa may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
7.99, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Kasimpasa had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Tigre, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Ogün Özçiçek 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
7 goals and a season average of 7.23. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Match6 Feb 2027
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
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Upbeat
Squad1 Feb 2027
A fracture rules Pape Habib Guèye out for 24 days
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.
Match30 Jan 2027
Ninety minutes of very little, and then everything at once. The winner arrived in the 88th, and Umraniyespor spent what remained of the match appealing to the referee rather than chasing the ball.
Boardroom1 Feb 2027
Kasimpasa close the window on a squad of their own making
1 in and 4 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 targets1 Feb 2027
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Kasimpasa have done the hard part with Tigre, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Cláudio Winck 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 targets1 Feb 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. St. Gallen have kept their man, and Kasimpasa go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match30 Jan 2027
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Jim Allevinah. 1‑0 against Umraniyespor, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad1 Feb 2027
38 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
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Steady
Squad25 Jan 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 32 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market25 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 Kasimpasa, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market25 Jan 2027
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 targets25 Jan 2027
Everything agreed with Gaziantep, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Flamengo keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad25 Jan 2027
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 targets25 Jan 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Coventry City have kept their man, and Kasimpasa go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match23 Jan 2027
Three points for Kasimpasa, 2‑0 the final word against Alanyaspor in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
Ninety minutes of Jim Allevinah at his very best
Marked 8.07. 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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Steady
Match13 Jan 2027
Besiktas ended it 1‑4. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 32. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 39 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market18 Jan 2027
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Kasimpasa people have started saying his name in the past tense.
The terraces18 Jan 2027
Kasimpasa are taken apart by Besiktas — and the town wants answers
It finished 1-4. 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.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
The deal with Flamengo 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.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Grasshopper is saying, and nobody at Kasimpasa is enjoying the guessing.
Squad18 Jan 2027
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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
The medical room confirms 35 days on the sidelines for Burak Gültekin, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
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Upbeat
Match9 Jan 2027
0‑4 to Fenerbahce, 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
9 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
47 days out for Pape Habib Guèye after a fracture
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.
Market11 Jan 2027
Fenerbahce pay $7.9M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
The terraces11 Jan 2027
Supporters turn on the $7.9M sale of Adrian Benedyczak
He is going to Fenerbahce, the club has $7.9M it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
No thanks: Jadel Katongo rejects the move
Kasimpasa had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Kayserispor, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad11 Jan 2027
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 targets11 Jan 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.
Market11 Jan 2027
The name of Yusuf Barasi has come up in conversations Kasimpasa were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
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Triumph
Squad4 Jan 2027
A fracture rules Pape Habib Guèye out for 55 days
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.
Market4 Jan 2027
Besiktas 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
The kind of year that ends with a name being read out in a hall. Kasimpasa had the benefit of it every week and now have the problem of everybody else knowing.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Kasimpasa have done the hard part with Leyton Orient, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad4 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 Kasimpasa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
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.
Match2 Jan 2027
A 2‑1 win over Istanbulspor, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Match2 Jan 2027
Kasimpasa are at home on the road
3 straight away victories. Sides that win away are usually sides that can defend and can counter, and the table has begun to reflect what those journeys have earned.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
A performance of 8.26 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
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Upbeat
Match26 Dec 2026
Beaten 0‑4 by Trabzonspor, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Squad28 Dec 2026
63 days out for Pape Habib Guèye after a fracture
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.
Squad28 Dec 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.
Match26 Dec 2026
After 4 games, Kasimpasa finally taste it again
The first defeat in 4 matches. The manager will say it had to come; the dressing room will say it did not have to come against Trabzonspor; the supporters will say both, in that order, all week.
Match28 Dec 2026
The half-term report on Kasimpasa
Position 7, 37 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.
Boardroom28 Dec 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 dugout28 Dec 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Kenan Unai after 0‑4, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
The dugout28 Dec 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Whether it was the goalkeeper or the ten in front of him is the argument that will fill every conversation in town this week. 5 saves does not settle it either way.
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Upbeat
Match19 Dec 2026
4‑0, and Pape Habib Guèye took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Kasimpasa tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 72 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.53 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Match19 Dec 2026
Nobody wants to play Kasimpasa right now
4 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
A performance of 8.35 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
A performance of 8.28 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
The dugout21 Dec 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 4‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
Looking ahead21 Dec 2026
A test against the best for Kasimpasa
The team at the top of the table next, and the honest measure of where this side actually is. Anybody can beat the club below them; the question is what happens against Trabzonspor.
The dugout21 Dec 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.
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Upbeat
Match12 Dec 2026
Kasimpasa cannot stop winning
3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Match12 Dec 2026
10 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Match12 Dec 2026
Three points for Kasimpasa, 2‑1 the final word against Konyaspor in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
A performance of 8.11 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Kasimpasa
Adem Arous 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
7 goals and a season average of 7.24. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Loan watch14 Dec 2026
“I watch every Kasimpasa game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Adana Demirspor runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The dugout14 Dec 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Kasimpasa
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Elson Mendes was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Steady
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 38. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match5 Dec 2026
Giresunspor will want this one forgotten quickly: 5‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Kasimpasa were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Squad7 Dec 2026
3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Squad7 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 Kasimpasa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Adrian Benedyczak was on a different afternoon to everybody else
10.00. 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.
Match5 Dec 2026
9 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.48, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Match5 Dec 2026
There is a particular helplessness in conceding 2 times before the twentieth minute. Giresunspor tried to reorganise, Kasimpasa did not allow it, and the result was written long before it was confirmed.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.46, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
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Steady
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad30 Nov 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.
Match28 Nov 2026
A 2‑0 win over Adana Demirspor, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words at Kasimpasa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matei Ilie 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.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Marked 8.29 — 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 ratings30 Nov 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.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Cenk Tosun
“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.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Kenan Unai: “That is the standard”
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 2‑0, already talking about the next one.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Somebody else is better right now than Cenk Tosun
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.
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Uneasy
Match21 Nov 2026
Fousseni Diabaté had done his part in building a 2-goal cushion. What happened after that was collective, and Fatih Karagumruk were allowed back into a match that had been finished with.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 17 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match21 Nov 2026
The wait goes on for Kasimpasa
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
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 ratings23 Nov 2026
A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 12 actions, 7.28, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.
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
The run at home goes on for Kasimpasa
8 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Kasimpasa
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Matei Ilie was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Ninety minutes of Jim Allevinah at his very best
Marked 8.11. 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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Steady
Squad16 Nov 2026
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Ali Emre Yanar: 2 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Match11 Nov 2026
Kasimpasa through in the cup
A 1‑1 win over Antalyaspor, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 26 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad16 Nov 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.
Match11 Nov 2026
A point taken on 94 minutes is worth exactly one point and considerably more than that to a dressing room. This side does not stop, which is a reputation worth more than the result.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Cenk Tosun misses from twelve yards
It was his to settle and he did not settle it. A long walk back to the halfway line, and a considerably longer week.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Marked 7.69 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Kasimpasa had the best player on the pitch.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Kenan Unai after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
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Steady
Squad9 Nov 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.
Squad9 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 Kasimpasa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market9 Nov 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Hakan Soyuncu is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market9 Nov 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Hakan Yildirim 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.
Player ratings9 Nov 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 ratings9 Nov 2026
10 combined actions and 7.80. 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.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
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.
Match7 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 dugout9 Nov 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Kenan Unai was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the Kasimpasa dressing room was either.
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Steady
Match31 Oct 2026
1‑4 to Galatasaray, 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 40 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match31 Oct 2026
The run is over for Kasimpasa
8 matches without defeat, and then Galatasaray. Nobody at the ground pretended it would go on forever; nobody expected it to stop here either.
Boardroom2 Nov 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.
Loan watch2 Nov 2026
“I watch every Kasimpasa game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Adana Demirspor runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
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 1‑4 Kenan Unai left the room before anybody could ask which.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Cláudio Winck makes the team of the month
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
Squad2 Nov 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
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.
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Upbeat
Squad26 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 8 matches without defeat is a foundation Kasimpasa did not have in the autumn.
Match24 Oct 2026
Kayserispor made Kasimpasa work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑2 at the end and the table does not ask how.
The dugout26 Oct 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.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
A performance of 8.50 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
İrfan Can Kahveci was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.26. 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 ratings26 Oct 2026
Ninety minutes of Fousseni Diabaté at his very best
Marked 8.12. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Kasimpasa.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
A performance of 8.00 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Adem Arous 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.
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Upbeat
Squad19 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 56 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match17 Oct 2026
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 7 matches without defeat is a foundation Kasimpasa did not have in the autumn.
Squad19 Oct 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Appearance number 100 for Matei Ilie
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 dugout19 Oct 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.” Kenan Unai chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
The dugout19 Oct 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
One yellow too many, and a match watched from the stand. The most avoidable absence in football, and Kasimpasa will feel it on Saturday.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 12. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match17 Oct 2026
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Gaziantep will be the happier side with the point.
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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
From our football correspondent
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.
From our football correspondent
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.
From our football correspondent
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.
From our football correspondent
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.
From our football correspondent
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.