The Galatasaray Courier
Squad9 Aug 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Lucas Torreira
54 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Galatasaray lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market9 Aug 2027
Terms done: Eyüp Aydın is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Isloch waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Galatasaray is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Match9 Aug 2027
Galatasaray are in among the leaders
Position 3 and 86 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Leroy Sané 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 Galatasaray this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Hamza Güreler is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Words at Galatasaray training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexey Batrakov 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.
Market9 Aug 2027
Kasimpasa join the queue for Can Armando Güner
Add another name to the list: Kasimpasa have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Can Armando Güner. The answer from Galatasaray has not changed — yet.
The dugout9 Aug 2027
Hakan Çalhanoğlu gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Hakan Çalhanoğlu is on it.
Market9 Aug 2027
The Alexey Batrakov talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Galatasaray know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
In brief
- Market Mustafa Duru leaves for nothing
- The dugout The manager comes out for Abdülkerim Bardakcı