Okay Yokuşlu

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21 Edition

The Besiktas Post

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout21 Dec 2026

Cengiz Ünder: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Besiktas have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market21 Dec 2026

Václav Černý wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Besiktas hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad21 Dec 2026

A row about effort at Besiktas

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

Squad21 Dec 2026

A falling-out at Besiktas

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

The dugout21 Dec 2026

When it matters, Leandro Trossard plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

The dugout21 Dec 2026

The manager makes an example of Okay Yokuşlu

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Boardroom21 Dec 2026

$72.0K lands at Besiktas thanks to Élan Ricardo

A clause somebody insisted on years ago, in a negotiation nobody remembers, has just paid Besiktas $72.0K. Élan Ricardo left a long time ago; the paperwork stayed.

Market21 Dec 2026

The Leandro Trossard question follows Besiktas around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Leandro Trossard’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Squad21 Dec 2026

Player of the week: Leandro Trossard

Somebody watched every match in the division at the weekend and decided he was the best thing in any of them. A small honour, and most careers end without one.

In brief

Back issues
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The Besiktas Post

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad21 Sep 2026

A knee injury of the worst kind for Salih Uçan

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

Match19 Sep 2026

Besiktas do the business in Europe

1‑1. Continental football is where a club finds out what it actually is, and Besiktas came through the finding-out well against Sporting CP.

Match19 Sep 2026

No mercy from Besiktas

Trabzonspor will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Besiktas were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.

Squad21 Sep 2026

A day Leandro Trossard will not forget

3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

Václav Černý was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 24. 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.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Tempers go at Besiktas

Václav Černý 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.

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

Leandro Trossard was on a different afternoon to everybody else

9.83. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

The terraces21 Sep 2026

The crowd has taken to Ernest Poku

At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

The dugout21 Sep 2026

Leandro Trossard has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Besiktas will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief

  • The dugout Okay Yokuşlu gets it from the manager
  • Squad Words at Besiktas training over how hard people work
  • The dugout The view from the dugout
3 Edition

The Besiktas Post

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match15 Aug 2026

Besiktas tear Fatih Karagumruk apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 10‑0 against Fatih Karagumruk, and it could have been more.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Leandro Trossard takes the match ball home

4 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.

Squad17 Aug 2026

4 goals for Václav Černý

The match ball belongs to Václav Černý, whose 4 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.

Market17 Aug 2026

Adana Demirspor come back empty-handed

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

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

Besiktas rebuffed over Jackson Muleka

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

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

Besiktas bid $2.2M for Miguel Cardoso

The offer went to Kayserispor 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.

Squad17 Aug 2026

A move Okay Yokuşlu would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Okay Yokuşlu is living that version at Besiktas, and it tends to show in the first month.

Market17 Aug 2026

Besiktas sign Okay Yokuşlu for $940.0K

The paperwork is done: Okay Yokuşlu joins from Trabzonspor in a deal worth $940.0K. Now comes the harder part.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Besiktas

Orkun Kökçü 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

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The Trabzonspor Sentinel

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match15 Aug 2026

Trabzonspor run riot against Kasimpasa

3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Squad17 Aug 2026

3 goals for Mohamed Salah

The match ball belongs to Mohamed Salah, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.

Market17 Aug 2026

Tim Jabol-Folcarelli moves on

Fatih Karagumruk pay $6.8M, 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.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Mohamed Salah, 34, rolls back the years — 8.48

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.48 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Market17 Aug 2026

Trabzonspor sign Kaan Ayhan for $2.6M

The paperwork is done: Kaan Ayhan joins from Galatasaray in a deal worth $2.6M. Now comes the harder part.

Market17 Aug 2026

Trabzonspor turn down Al Nasr for Onuralp Çevikkan

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Words exchanged at Trabzonspor

Fabinho 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.

Market17 Aug 2026

Business is business: Okay Yokuşlu goes

Besiktas paid $940.0K and Trabzonspor took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Words at Trabzonspor training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Batista Mendy 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.

In brief