The Basaksehir Chronicle
Market17 Aug 2026
Basaksehir say no — this time
The offer from Fenerbahce for Christopher Opéri was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A defender's afternoon for Olivier Kemen
Defensive actions: 29. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Jerome Opoku 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 Basaksehir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Jerome Opoku was on a different afternoon to everybody else
9.59. 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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Basaksehir
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Amine Harit 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Abbosbek Fayzullayev
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Nuno Da Costa gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market17 Aug 2026
Basaksehir promote Serdar Yazici from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Serdar Yazici has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Enes Ozil joins the Basaksehir first team
- Market Recep Sahin steps up from the Basaksehir academy
- Match Jerome Opoku sends Basaksehir past Hatayspor