The Basaksehir Chronicle
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
An offer of $13.9M for Kerem Aktürkoğlu
Basaksehir have gone to Fenerbahce with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Yusuf Yazıcı due for a Basaksehir medical
Everything agreed with Olympiacos, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Market10 Aug 2026
Basaksehir say no — this time
The offer from Luzern for Davie Selke was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Too dear: Basaksehir walk away from Çağlar Söyüncü
$1.6M was the most the club would pay and Fenerbahce were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Basaksehir go back to the board over Kerem Aktürkoğlu
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $15.3M — a club that wants Kerem Aktürkoğlu enough to be asked twice.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Muhammed Şengezer signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Muhammed Şengezer commits to Basaksehir for another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Amine Harit 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 Basaksehir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
Bertuğ Yıldırım 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Can Celik steps up from the Basaksehir academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Can Celik 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.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Halil Dervisoglu joins the Basaksehir first team
- Market One of our own: Enes Calhanoglu joins the Basaksehir first team
- Squad 7 new faces, and Basaksehir are still learning each other