The Genclerbirligi Post
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Basaksehir tell Genclerbirligi: Muhammed Şengezer is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Genclerbirligi go back to the board over Muhammed Şengezer
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $2.9M — a club that wants Muhammed Şengezer enough to be asked twice.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Franco Tongya 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 Genclerbirligi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Genclerbirligi baulk at the price for Emre Bilgin
Besiktas wanted more than $150.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Market10 Aug 2026
Genclerbirligi promote Gokhan Aktorkoglu from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Gokhan Aktorkoglu has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Can Dervisoglu joins the Genclerbirligi first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Can Dervisoglu is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Fatih Omur joins the Genclerbirligi first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Fatih Omur is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Ali Demiral steps up from the Genclerbirligi academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ali Demiral has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Squad10 Aug 2026
No place for Taha Balcı in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Genclerbirligi are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
In brief
- Squad Words at Genclerbirligi training over how hard people work
- Looking ahead Oğulcan Ülgün faces his old club
- Squad Taha Balcı still has not settled