Behram Bağcı

Defensive Midfielder - Nafta 1903 U20
30 Sep 2029
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Marked for Behram Bağcı

164 Edition

The Nafta 1903 Courier

17 Sep 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Balázs Bakti runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 32. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Kimi Lavrenčič’s move to Olimpija Ljubljana falls through

The deal that would have taken Kimi Lavrenčič to Olimpija Ljubljana has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Nafta 1903 with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.

Match

Whatever happens, Nafta 1903 do not lose

9 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Market

Halvor Tollan asks to leave Nafta 1903

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market

Halvor Tollan is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Nafta 1903 is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Words exchanged at Nafta 1903

Balázs Bakti 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Nafta 1903

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Aljaž Antolin was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Jan Bijol

Nafta 1903 asked and NK Maribor said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Match

Nafta 1903 see off Bilje

Three points for Nafta 1903, 1‑0 the final word against Bilje in a contest settled by the finer margins.

In brief

Back issues
108 Edition

The Yenisey 2 Courier

21 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Bogdan Ruppel asks to leave Yenisey 2

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Match

4 matches without a win for Yenisey 2

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Yenisey 2 are no longer polite ones.

Squad

The step up is real for Behram Bağcı

At 19 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.

The terraces

One of their own: Anzor Kasradze

He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Squad

Yenisey 2 are still strangers to each other

9 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

Squad

Words exchanged at Yenisey 2

Arseny Golovin 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.

Squad

Words at Yenisey 2 training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Cəvid Yadullayev 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

The manager makes an example of Cəvid Yadullayev

“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.

Market

Anzor Kasradze is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Yenisey 2 has been clear about where Anzor Kasradze stands, which is more than many ever get.

In brief

105 Edition

The Yenisey 2 Courier

31 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Alexandr Yudin hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Yenisey 2 can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Words exchanged at Yenisey 2

Ivan Lapitskiy 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.

Match

Yenisey 2 come up short against Saturn

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

The dugout

Artem Pogosov 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.

The dugout

Ivan Oborocha knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Yenisey 2, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Squad

The formation has left Liam Flight behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Yenisey 2 will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

Squad

A row about effort at Yenisey 2

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Cəvid Yadullayev was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

A first team debut at 19 for Behram Bağcı

Off the academy pitches and into a senior shirt, at 19. The parents in the stand will keep the programme, and so will he.

Market

The Mikhail Tikhonov story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Mikhail Tikhonov signs something — a contract at Yenisey 2 or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

In brief