Midfield, Turkey
Club football at Galatasaray SK.
Sourced facts, dated and on the record. Squad membership, and his club when a source names one. Nothing invented; we don’t make players up.
At a glance
age
25
sourced with the squad
position
Midfield
Turkey
club
Galatasaray SK
football-data.org
club tier
1684
ClubElo strength
our board
#851
of 1424 rated players
folded so far
2012′
32 appearances
On the pitch
Goals and assists for Turkey, on the record and counted.
goals
1
assists
1
goals and assists from our captured match events · caps and minutes from the appearance record
Sourced
- squad
- Turkey · Midfieldfootball-data.org · 2026-06-29
- club
- Galatasaray SKfootball-data.org · 2026-06-29
Sourced context, nothing more. It never touches a call.
Our rating · the working
the board →1700 ±45
his quality rating: club, age and measured output. The board orders by this plus his World Cup form, less a discount for how much we can measure him.
How the number is builtopenclose
1722 full roster Elo (+22 from national-team results)
the ± is how settled the number is, more minutes, tighter band
Tier 2, lineups + results, how rich the evidence is, not just how much
potential ~1722 ±45 a projection, not a measurement: room left on the midfield age curve
Where he starts (his team’s strength, we refuse to invent what we haven’t measured) plus two fixed nudges make the quality rating above; the last line is what national-team results have added since, taking it to his full roster Elo.
- starts at Turkey's strengththe fair club-over-national anchor, every player's starting point
- 1701
- age curve at 25 (midfields' curve)measured from the open archive by our own study (defenders: the published literature's shape), never fitted to our calls
- -1
- individual skill termour club xG models haven't seen enough of him for a confident read, so nothing is added, never guessed
- +0
- quality rating · club, age + measured output
- 1700
- form: national-team results, 32 appearances2012 minutes, weighted by margin, surprise and his match stats, but shared across the XI
- +22
- full roster Elo · with results
- 1722
A forward-only shadow signal, as of 2026-06-26. The skill term comes from our own xG models over the open archive; the rest is earned, recorded per appearance, auditable, never back-filled. It never moves a live call.
The notebook
The lines a beat writer keeps, except every one of ours is read off the ledger above, auditable to the night. Nothing invented.
standing
#851 of 1424 rated players on our board.
vs his seed
The folded nights have added +22 to the number he seeded with, he has outplayed his own prior.
What he’d cost · our estimate
€6.5m–€25m ≈ €13m
Not a figure from any valuation site; we don’t republish those. Our own model: the level he plays at, what we’ve measured of him, his age and his role. A band, not a point: we can’t see contract length or release clauses, the two biggest real drivers, so we say so.
The workingopenclose
- reference feea mid-tier-club, peak-age forward of average measured skill
- €8m
- club tier 1684the level he plays at, the strongest signal of what a club pays
- ×1.85
- ageage 25, in the fee-peak window (24–27)
- ×1.00
- midfielder fee factorstrikers set the market's top; midfield runs close; defence and goal at the record books' discounts
- ×0.90
- individual skillour xG model has no confident read on him, priced on club, age and role only, so the band is wide
- ×1.00
- our estimate
- ≈ €13m
fee-model v3 priors (panel-anchored, 2026-06), calibrated against our reported fees. The band is roughly two-in-three likely; contract length and release clauses are data we don’t hold. Context only, it never touches a call.
The fee record · sourced
- 2021-07-09Keçiörengücü → Galatasarayundisclosed
- 2020-09-10Ankara Demirspor → Keçiörengücüundisclosed
Reported moves, dated and attributed (api-football.com), news facts, not a valuation site’s estimates. It never touches a call.
In our coverage · Turkey’s record
- v USA3–2Missed it
- v Paraguay0–1Missed it
- at Australia2–0Missed it
The newsroom’s calls on Turkey. Team-level, never dressed up as a player stat.
Squad · sourced
- Abdülkerim Bardakcı
- Altay Bayındır
- Arda Guler
- Çağlar Söyüncü
- Can Uzun
- Deniz Gul
- Evren Eren Elmalı
- Ferdi Kadıoğlu
- Hakan Çalhanoğlu
- İrfan Kahveci
- İsmail Yüksek
- Kaan Ayhan
- Kenan Yıldız
- Merih Demiral
- Mert Günok
- Mert Müldür
- Muhammed Kerem Aktürkoğlu
- Oguz Aydin
- Orkun Kökçü
- Ozan Kabak
- Salih Özcan
- Samet Akaydın
- Uğurcan Çakır
- Yunus Akgün
- Zeki Çelik