Okay Ozil

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Fenerbahce U18
18 Sep 2038
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Marked for Okay Ozil

622 Edition

The Fenerbahce Sentinel

28 Jun 2038
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad28 Jun 2038

A knee injury of the worst kind for Okay Ozil

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

Squad28 Jun 2038

Fenerbahce count the cost of losing Mattéo Guendouzi

80 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Market28 Jun 2038

Hatayspor come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Fenerbahce did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market28 Jun 2038

Diego Barros 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.

Squad28 Jun 2038

Words at Fenerbahce training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kostas Koulierakis is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad28 Jun 2038

Kristjan Asllani 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 Fenerbahce this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

Back issues
621 Edition

The Fenerbahce Sentinel

21 Jun 2038
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad21 Jun 2038

A knee injury of the worst kind for Okay Ozil

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

Squad21 Jun 2038

Kristjan Asllani keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Fenerbahce may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Match21 Jun 2038

Fenerbahce refuse to drop out of the race

Position 3, 77 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Market21 Jun 2038

Ozan Ozan 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.

Squad21 Jun 2038

Kostas Koulierakis 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.

Squad21 Jun 2038

Tempers go at Fenerbahce

Kristjan Asllani 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

620 Edition

The Fenerbahce Sentinel

14 Jun 2038
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad14 Jun 2038

Okay Ozil damages knee ligaments — 46 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 46 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.

Squad14 Jun 2038

Bryan De Jongh says Fenerbahce went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad14 Jun 2038

Giannis Konstantelias 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 Fenerbahce this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad14 Jun 2038

Erdem Ozcan gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Erdem Ozcan has just signed for Fenerbahce, and for once the answer mattered.

Market14 Jun 2038

Yiğit Efe Demir raises the bar for Fenerbahce

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Fenerbahce heard it as anything else.

Market14 Jun 2038

Vince Osuji arrives at Fenerbahce as the heir apparent

Every dressing room knows how to read a signing like this one. Vince Osuji is not here to sit and wait indefinitely, and the man whose place he has been bought to take knows it better than anyone.

In brief