The Basaksehir Chronicle
Squad21 Sep 2026
A muscle injury and 14 days out for Olivier Kemen
The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Basaksehir will quote 14 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Amine Harit beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 23. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Basaksehir
Eldor Shomurodov 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.
Transfer targets21 Sep 2026
Yohan Boli stays at Antalyaspor as time runs out
A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Basaksehir will try again when the window opens; Antalyaspor may not be selling by then.
Transfer targets21 Sep 2026
Basaksehir rebuffed over Deniz Dönmezer
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Kayserispor have kept their man, and Basaksehir go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match19 Sep 2026
Basaksehir find a way past Alanyaspor
Alanyaspor made Basaksehir work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of Abbosbek Fayzullayev at his very best
Marked 8.29. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Basaksehir.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
A masterclass from Bertuğ Yıldırım
Marked 8.05 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Loan watch21 Sep 2026
Tugra Turhan wants to come home
“I did not go to Omonoia to sit and watch. I want to come back to Basaksehir and fight for my place.” 2 appearances in 6 matches say the rest.
In brief
- Market Ivan Brnić told to find a new club
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Ömer Ali Şahiner
- The dugout The manager’s verdict