Oğulcan Başol

Central Defender - Umraniyespor
11 May 2028
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Marked for Oğulcan Başol

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The Umraniyespor Post

24 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Vicente Valor 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 Umraniyespor this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Umraniyespor training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Furkan Özhan 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 dugout

No hiding place for Furkan Akyüz

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Furkan Akyüz, and the manager let it.

Match

Umraniyespor come up short against Igdir FK

Igdir FK left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Kenan Tosun to a room that had heard them before.

The dugout

The team sheet said everything about Nolhan Assafoua

Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Nolhan Assafoua.

Boardroom

Umraniyespor bank $160.0K from an old deal

The unglamorous genius of a well-written contract. Engjëll Hoti is somebody else's player now, and $160.0K has arrived because the people who sold him thought further ahead than the transfer window.

Market

The Álex Blanco question follows Umraniyespor around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Álex Blanco’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

The dugout

No place in the plan for Nolhan Assafoua

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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The Bodrum FK Chronicle

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Gustavo Blanco goes up and wins it — 7.93

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.93 for the rest of it.

The dugout

Bahri Can Tosun keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Bodrum FK may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Match

4 matches without a win for Bodrum FK

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Bodrum FK are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Renato Nhaga 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 Bodrum FK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

The step up is real for Oğulcan Başol

At 21 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.

Match

Bodrum FK come up short against Amedspor

Amedspor left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout

No hiding place for Léo Alaba

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Léo Alaba, and the manager let it.

Squad

A late step up for Bahri Can Tosun

At 24 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.

Squad

Words at Bodrum FK training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bruninho 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.

In brief