The Besiktas Post
Match12 Dec 2026
Besiktas do the business in Europe
2‑0. Continental football is where a club finds out what it actually is, and Besiktas came through the finding-out well against Novi Pazar.
Match12 Dec 2026
Junior Olaitan leads the rout of Ankaragucu
4‑0, and Junior Olaitan took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Besiktas tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
A brace, and Oh Hyeon-Gyu takes the afternoon — 8.59
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Oh Hyeon-Gyu provided it, and the 8.59 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Cengiz Ünder says Besiktas went back on their word
“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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Besiktas
Václav Černý 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Amir Murillo 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.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Leandro Trossard in the eights
A performance of 8.31 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Orkun Kökçü was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.19. 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
No place for Luka Jović on the big day
He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Besiktas pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.
In brief
- Player ratings Cengiz Ünder runs at them all day
- Market Taylan Bulut linked with a move away
- The terraces The press cannot get enough of Leandro Trossard