Semih Under

Right Midfielder - Samsunspor U18
15 Apr 2029
Sunday
Process

Marked for Semih Under

101 Edition

The Samsunspor Chronicle

3 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Semih Under out for 15 days

15 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Samsunspor lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad

Ezequiel breaks a bone — 30 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 30 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Terms done: Enes Albak is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Alanyaspor waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Samsunspor is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Transfer targets

Samsunspor agree $920.0K for Ege Bilsel

The clubs have shaken hands with Bodrum FK; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.

Market

Samsunspor say no — this time

The offer from Kasimpasa for Muhammet Özbaskıcı 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.

Market

Ezequiel is a Samsunspor player

The fee is $760.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Istanbulspor drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.

Boardroom

Samsunspor go back to the board over Ege Bilsel

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $1.1M — a club that wants Ege Bilsel enough to be asked twice.

Transfer targets

Tibet Durakçay due for a Samsunspor medical

Everything agreed with Eyupspor, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Squad

Tempers go at Samsunspor

Jayden Oosterwolde 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.

In brief

Back issues
100 Edition

The Samsunspor Chronicle

26 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Semih Under out for 23 days

23 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Samsunspor lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market

Business is business: Tim Jabol-Folcarelli goes

Fenerbahce paid $20.4M and Samsunspor took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Market

Samsunspor say no — this time

The offer from Fenerbahce for Tanguy Coulibaly 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.

The terraces

A $20.4M sale, and a town that did not want it

Tim Jabol-Folcarelli has gone, the accounts have $20.4M in them, and the supporters have the feeling of having been sold something themselves. Good business and a good decision are not always the same thing.

Market

Jayden Oosterwolde has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Samsunspor can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Transfer targets

Samsunspor bid $760.0K for Ezequiel

The offer went to Istanbulspor this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Boardroom

Franck Atoen has agreed to leave Samsunspor for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Squad

Tempers go at Samsunspor

Chérif N'Diaye 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.

Squad

Rick van Drongelen 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.

In brief

99 Edition

The Samsunspor Chronicle

19 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Semih Under

33 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Samsunspor lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market

Samsunspor say no — this time

The offer from Stade Rennais for Tim Jabol-Folcarelli 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.

Market

Samsunspor sell Yalçın Kayan for $2.6M

Yalçın Kayan has left for Basaksehir in a $2.6M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Market

Joakim Mæhle wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad

Words exchanged at Samsunspor

Joe Mendes and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

Chérif N'Diaye 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.

Transfer targets

Samsunspor rebuffed over Ali Yavuz Kol

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Kasimpasa have kept their man, and Samsunspor go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

Samsunspor lose Kerem Fidan

39 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

The dugout

Logi Tómasson 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.

In brief