The Fenerbahce Sentinel
Squad14 Sep 2026
Vedat Muriqi damages knee ligaments — 121 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 121 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market14 Sep 2026
Mason Greenwood’s move to Lokomotiv Moscow falls through
The deal that would have taken Mason Greenwood to Lokomotiv Moscow has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Fenerbahce with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Match12 Sep 2026
Fenerbahce cannot stop winning
5 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Age has not caught Romelu Lukaku yet — 8.14
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.14 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Fenerbahce
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Milan Škriniar was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match12 Sep 2026
Fenerbahce see off Gaziantep
Three points for Fenerbahce, 2‑0 the final word against Gaziantep in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Marco Asensio was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.21. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Kerem Ucar signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Kerem Ucar commits to Fenerbahce for another 3 years.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
A satisfied Oguzhan Yazici
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 2‑0, Oguzhan Yazici could afford to be generous.
In brief
- Player ratings Mason Greenwood was unplayable
- Market The İsmail Yüksek talk will not go away
- Squad Romelu Lukaku makes the position his own