The Basaksehir Chronicle
Player ratings8 Nov 2027
Nobody could get near Yunus Akgün
Successful dribbles: 44. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match7 Nov 2027
Basaksehir do the business in Europe
0‑0. Continental football is where a club finds out what it actually is, and Basaksehir came through the finding-out well against HNK Rijeka.
Match7 Nov 2027
Whatever happens, Basaksehir do not lose
13 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.
Market8 Nov 2027
Joazhiño Arroé is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Basaksehir is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad8 Nov 2027
Tempers go at Basaksehir
Muhammed Şengezer 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.
Market8 Nov 2027
Basaksehir may not be able to give Erik Bodencer what he wants
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Erik Bodencer wants continental football; whether Basaksehir can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad8 Nov 2027
Yusuf Sarı signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Yusuf Sarı commits to Basaksehir for another 4 years.
Squad8 Nov 2027
Yusuf Sarı 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.
Squad8 Nov 2027
Serdar Unal pulls a muscle — 14 days out
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 14 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
In brief
- Player ratings Both jobs done by Davie Selke — 6.77
- Boardroom Basaksehir release $9.0M for the manager
- Player ratings The afternoon belonged to Festy Ebosele