Ivan Brnić

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Basaksehir
12 Feb 2027
Friday
Process

Marked for Ivan Brnić

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The Basaksehir Chronicle

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

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 ratings

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.

Squad

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 targets

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 targets

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.

Match

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 ratings

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 ratings

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 watch

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

Back issues
4 Edition

The Basaksehir Chronicle

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

8 saves: Muhammed Şengezer was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Market

Yeison Moreno says no to Zulte Waregem

“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Yeison Moreno had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.

Transfer targets

Sivasspor tell Basaksehir: Charis Charisis is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Market

Kaan Ayhan arrives at Basaksehir in a $2.6M statement of intent

There comes a point where a club either backs its own ambition or admits it does not have any. Basaksehir have paid $2.6M for Kaan Ayhan, which is the loudest way there is of saying which one it chose.

Squad

A falling-out at Basaksehir

Amine Harit and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

A row about effort at Basaksehir

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jerome Opoku was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Market

Ekrem Stancic moves on

Ankaragucu pay $32.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Market

Doğan Alemdar attracts admirers

The name of Doğan Alemdar has come up in conversations Basaksehir were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Match

A bad afternoon for Basaksehir against Trabzonspor

0‑2 to Trabzonspor, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

In brief