Leader of the Turkish championship with four victories in as many matches, Galatasaray started well on his way to a fourth national title in a row after 2023, 2024 and 2025. The club of Istanbul will also be keen to shine in the Champions League. Unable to pass the group stage since the 2013/2014 season, the Bosphorus Rives club will have a nice program with the reception of Liverpool, Bodo/Glimt, the Union Saint-Gilloise and Atlético de Madrid, but also trips against Eintracht Frankfurt, Ajax Amsterdam, AS Monaco and Manchester City. And to get out of this hen and shine in Europe, the Turks have put the means in the big ones.
Fourteenth most spending club in summer, Galatasaray is even in the top five of clubs outside the Premier League behind Bayer Leverkusen, Atlético de Madrid, Real Madrid and AC Milan with 148.27 million euros paid. A historic transfer window for Galatasaray who had never spent so much money in a summer. It is much more than last summer, the date of the last record with in particular the arrivals of Gabriel Sara, Elias Jelert, Carlos Cuesta or Rolland Sollai for 61.65 million euros. And more than the money spent, it is the standing of these recruits that challenges.
An XXL market
Loaned last year, the Nigerian scorer Victor Osimhen was the main summer take. Fifth most expensive player in the summer transfer window, the former Napoli will intend to continue in line with last season when he had scored 37 goals and 8 assists in 43 matches. The main take of the Stambouliote club, the former Lille is not the only weight reinforcement. In defense, Wilfried Singo landed from Monaco for the impressive sum of 30.77 million euros. For his part, the guardian of the Turkish selection Uğurcan çakır arrived from Trabzonspor for 27.5 million euros while the name of Gianluigi Donnarumma had been previously linked.
Galatasaray also managed to attract two players freely with Leroy Sané and İlkay Gündoğan who arrived from Bayern Munich and Manchester City respectively. Guardian, defense, midfielder, wings and attack, all sectors have been filled to strengthen an already very efficient team. And that could even have been more important with the possible arrival of Hakan çalhanoğlu who will finally stay in Inter Milan. “” Hakan çalhanoğlu was also a player we were looking forward to. He is a big supporter of Galatasaray. He clearly announced that he would make a big sacrifice to come. »
« We made a new attempt last week, but Inter said he didn’t want to leave him. They said they would do it if they offered a much higher price than usual. This is what we did. But the Inter declared that he did not want the transfer. If this transfer did not take place, it is because the Inter did not want to do it “Said Coach Okan Büruk on NOW TV. Galatasaray achieved a crazy summer, it only remains to transform the shot on the ground.
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