09 March 2016

What happened in Turkish football today? 08.03.2016


Besiktas is once again at the top of its performance and at the peak of morale

Besiktas is carrying on its title race with head up following a comfortable win against Eskisehirspor during Super League 24th week game yesterday with 3:1 win. With 11 games left for the Besiktas, including postponed game against Trabzonspor, their dont have any right to make mistake in similar manner as Fenerbahce.

There was a big worry with a team regarding of stress prior to game as Besiktas has lost to Fenerbahce last week and was knocked out by Konyaspor at the Turkish Cup in the midweek. Therefore it needed to win a game against Eskisehirspor as the chance to bounce back from the bad period and the poor performance without any focus and control by Eskisehirspor has provided big help for a team to get result it was seeking for. With following game yesterday, the team is once again fully motivated and focussed to the league title aim which it awaits for 7 years as a team. One of the advantage of Besiktas, and also at Fenerbahce, compare to other clubs at the league is togetherness of the side within which is seen at the game and outside of the game.

Besiktas for next week is going to play an important game against Rizespor on Saturday and postponed game 19th week game against Trabzonspor next Tuesday, and this games would provide rather big motivation or more stress to the team for the upcoming weeks.

Galatasaray is been managed very poorly.

Galatasaray as among most criticised teams at the Super League this season focussing both at the internal issues at the team and also administrators aspects in the media. The problem is that most
Galatasaray administrators dont have control of activity which are happening inside the club.

The following administrators is been criticised, mostly rightly, for not able to control situation at the team both at financially and also with players which had raised especially ego of players like Wesley Snejder. The team can change its head coaches several times but when the team still performs poorly it becomes clearly visible that issue is not with them and hence management of team should be done more. It is observed that number of younger administrators have huge ego, coming mainly for being at Galatasaray rather than made any big achievements, and this issue pulls surely club down.

Galatasaray needs some revision within administrators and self-criticism to find solutions as been mentioned before at previous blogs. One of the people who needs to do that is by the way Fatih Isbecer who did make many mistakes this season including over-confident statements.

Aykut Kocaman plays key role for success of Konyaspor.

One of the main surprises of this season at the Super League is undoubtedly is Konyaspor with its impressive performance with leadership of its head coach Aykut Kocaman. Kocaman has been so succesfully that club plans to extend contract with him for next 2 years.

It does look right now, that Konyaspor with such performance could clinch direct entrance to Europa League through Super League while also competing at the Turkish Cup, playing against Fenerbahce at the Turkish Cup semi-final stage. Noone was expecting, including inside the club, such a top performance even through as a team it always had that potential by looking at the squad and Kocaman experience as the head coach. Main thing for a team is to keep feet at the ground and not get overexcited by being at the 3rd place at the table, if it achieved that it can beat most of the teams at the league right now.

Konyaspor will likely extend contract with Kocaman latest next week and if it does that than team will improve at the future and be most spoken club in Turkey in upcoming seasons.

In other news:

Besiktas has recieved 2,500 TL fine from Professional Football Disciplinary Committee due of behaviour of fans

Turkish Football Federation has announced following referrals to Professional Football Disciplinary Committee:
- Kasimpasa, Antalyaspor and Besiktas were referred for behaviour of fans.
- Galatasaray has been referred for activities happening at the field.

UEFA has announced that referee of Europa League last 16 1st leg game between Fenerbahce and Braga would be French referee Clement Turpin

UEFA has announced that referee Cuneyt Cakir will referee Europa League last 16 1st leg game between Tottenham Hotspur and Borussia Dortmund

Trabzonspor football coordinator Yilmaz Buyukaydin: We are not having key players in this important games and due of this we lose points. There was no penalty given at the last game. We lost 18 points because of referees.

Turkish Football Federation has changed kick-off time of Galatasaray-Fenerbahce Super League game on 20th March from 7pm to 8pm

Besiktas: Our players Gokhan Tore and Ricardo Quaresma are currently injured. Seriousness of situation will be clear in 1-2 days.

Galatasaray administrator Fatih Isbecer: As everywhere in a world, we paid 1 million euro as commission in China for Burak Yilmaz transfer.

Kayserispor has signed head coach Hakan Kutlu for 1.5 years.

Galatasaray ex-CEO Unal Aysal: For now I am not interested to become club's CEO.

Konyaspor assistant CEO Guven Oten: We would sign 2 year extension with our head coach Aykut Kocaman this or next week.

Galatasaray academy coach Jan Olde Riekering is unhappy with club player Umut Bulut performance.

Fenerbahce will start Europa League game against Braga with Luis Nani at starting 11.

BeijingGuoan player Burak Yilmaz is currently going through acupuncture treatment to recover from injury.

Galatasaray are thinking to appoint to goalkeeper trainer Faryd Mondragon.

Trabzonspor are unhappy with club head coach Hami Mandirali performance and thinking to replace him.

Fenerbahce player Volkan Sen has felt unwell after Akhisar Belediyespor game on 6th March.

UEFA was planning to give ban to Galatasaray of 3 years and 10 million euro for not following FFP regulations.

Konyaspor players Dimitar Rangelov was selected to Bulgaria team and Nejc Skubic was selected to  Slovakia team for international friendly

Liverpool are interested to bring back its loaned player Lazar Markovic from Fenerbahce.

Galatasaray are close to appoint head coach Lucien Favre.

Galatasaray are interested to appoint Shakhtar Donetsk head coach Mircea Lucescu and Dnipro head coach Myron Markevich.

Galatasaray is willing to sell to Trabzonspor its loaned player Salih Dursun.

Trabzonspor CEO Muharrem Usta has calmed down club players Muharret Demir and Claudio Esteban heated argumentand told team to stay together

Galatasaray could sell its players Fernando Muslera, Wesley Snejder and Lukas Podolski for good offer

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