The Besiktas Post
Match15 Aug 2026
No mercy from Besiktas
Fatih Karagumruk will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Besiktas were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Market17 Aug 2026
Trabzonspor come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Besiktas did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market17 Aug 2026
Besiktas get their man
The chase for Aral Şimşir ended with $7.3M changing hands and Trabzonspor out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
El Bilal Touré scores twice — 8.02
Two goals and a mark of 8.02 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A move Aral Şimşir would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Aral Şimşir is living that version at Besiktas, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Besiktas
Orkun Kökçü 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Amir Murillo signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Amir Murillo commits to Besiktas for another 3 years.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Besiktas
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Kristjan Asllani runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
In brief
- Market Ibrahim Yildirim steps up from the Besiktas academy
- Market Besiktas promote Halil Erkin from within
- Squad Wilfred Ndidi falls out with a teammate over standards