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  • Turkish Football And The Dawn of a New Era

    With all of the end of season excitement going on currently, the inevitably surprising eventual winner belies a larger story of upheaval, disarray, and change in a league that has always...

  • 2017/18 Beşiktaş Transfer Review – Part 1/2

    Beşiktaş brought in a hefty 11 players in the two transfer windows, though they managed to not break the bank in the process. The front office adopted a thrifty approach to...

  • Fans Kepler reflects on Pepe’s first months at Beşiktaş

    After a decade filled with success, Pepe said goodbye to Real Madrid. Clubs from many countries wanted him: France, Italy, England… but ultimately, in a surprising turn of events, he chose...

  • Why Quaresma should stay another year

    As I wrote in my last piece “Ricardo Quaresma, mission complete?”, Beşiktaş have received a lucrative offers from China for their Portuguese wizard. I wanted to point out in my last article...

  • Eagles abroad: Sam Irvine

    With a short delay we present to you our third edition of the ‘Eagles abroad’ editorials, today we focus on one of our Eagles living in the UK! Sam Irvine, I...

  • Everything you need to know about King Kong Boyko

    It seems like Beşiktaş have finally found their new goalkeeper and as you all know by now his name is Denys Boyko. But who is Denys Boyko, what kind of goalkeeper...

  • The Curious Story of Oğuzhan Özyakup

    Going into the opener, Beşiktaş had a big hole to fill next to Atiba Hutchinson in the center of the midfield. On the transfer front, Beşiktaş recently, and in demoralizing fashion,...

  • In search of the right transfer policy

    This season Beşiktaş couldn’t win the league, nor qualify for the Champions League qualifiers. But with the football they played, they gave joy to fans, sometimes they dominated, sometimes they played the...

  • In defense of Fikret Orman, Slaven Bilic, et al.

    It may seem easy to defend the group of people who just secured for Beşiktaş the team’s best signing in recent history (Demba Ba), yet there has been a torrent of...