The Basaksehir Chronicle
Market7 Jun 2027
Terms done: Bertuğ Yıldırım is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Antalyaspor waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Basaksehir is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Efe Sarıkaya damages knee ligaments — 21 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 21 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.
Market7 Jun 2027
Basaksehir say no — this time
The offer from Galatasaray for Saba Kharebashvili was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
The dugout7 Jun 2027
Adil Demirbağ keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Basaksehir may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Transfer targets7 Jun 2027
Basaksehir rebuffed over Ayberk Karapo
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Manisa FK have kept their man, and Basaksehir go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Boardroom7 Jun 2027
Basaksehir go back to the board over Adem Arous
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $344.9K — a club that wants Adem Arous enough to be asked twice.
Transfer targets7 Jun 2027
Haluk Tan is a medical away from Basaksehir
The deal with Samsunspor 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.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Tempers go at Basaksehir
Abdülkerim Bardakcı 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 targets7 Jun 2027
Basaksehir make their move for Adem Arous
$290.0K on the table at Kasimpasa. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
In brief
- Squad Real improvement from Enes Öğrüce at Basaksehir
- Squad Words at Basaksehir training over how hard people work
- The dugout No hiding place for Ivan Brnić