The Besiktas Post
Market27 Sep 2027
Mustafa Hekimoğlu asks to leave Besiktas
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Player ratings27 Sep 2027
Both of them Milot Rashica's — 8.46
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.46, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Match25 Sep 2027
Nobody wants to play Besiktas right now
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Amir Murillo 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 Besiktas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad27 Sep 2027
A row about effort at Besiktas
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Orkun Kökçü was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Besiktas lose Elayis Tavşan
25 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Match25 Sep 2027
Besiktas get the job done against Kocaelispor
A 2‑0 win over Kocaelispor, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings27 Sep 2027
Václav Černý was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 18. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Semih Yildirim out for 15 days
The medical room confirms 15 days on the sidelines for Semih Yildirim, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
In brief
- Loan watch Emre Bilgin wants to come home
- Market Besiktas put Václav Černý up for sale
- The dugout Alexander Nübel has become a man the manager trusts