Abdullah Tekdemir

Striker - Free Agent
22 Feb 2032
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The Fenerbahce Sentinel

23 Dec 2030
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match21 Dec 2030

Whatever happens, Fenerbahce do not lose

33 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.

Match21 Dec 2030

Nobody wins at Fenerbahce

19 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.

Market23 Dec 2030

Abdullah Tekdemir 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 Fenerbahce can pretend not to have heard.

Player ratings23 Dec 2030

Can Uzun runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad23 Dec 2030

Pablo Hurtado falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad23 Dec 2030

Defences have started doubling up on Abbosbek Fayzullayev

8 goals and a season average of 7.42 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Match21 Dec 2030

Fenerbahce get the job done against Istanbulspor

A 1‑0 win over Istanbulspor, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Market23 Dec 2030

Fenerbahce may not be able to give Marcelo Pitaluga what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Marcelo Pitaluga wants continental football; whether Fenerbahce can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Player ratings23 Dec 2030

One of those days for Abbosbek Fayzullayev

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.46, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

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The Fenerbahce Sentinel

16 Sep 2030
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad16 Sep 2030

Lorenzo Montipò breaks a bone — 55 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 55 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match14 Sep 2030

Whatever happens, Fenerbahce do not lose

15 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.

Market16 Sep 2030

Diogo Gonçalves is on his way

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

Squad16 Sep 2030

Kayra Cihan is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 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.

Match14 Sep 2030

Fenerbahce get the job done against Basaksehir

A 1‑0 win over Basaksehir, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Player ratings16 Sep 2030

A masterclass from Abbosbek Fayzullayev

Marked 8.47 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Player ratings16 Sep 2030

Ninety minutes of Pablo Hurtado at his very best

Marked 8.19. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Fenerbahce.

Squad16 Sep 2030

Tempers go at Fenerbahce

Eray Özbek 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.

Squad16 Sep 2030

Abdullah Tekdemir signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Abdullah Tekdemir commits to Fenerbahce for another 3 years.

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