What happened in Turkish football today? 29.06.2016

Clubs have hard job to convince foreign players that Istanbul safe after Ataturk airport attack.

Another terror attack has took place in Istanbul, this time at one of the most busiest airports in the world, Ataturk Airport which has led death of 42 innocent people and 239 injuries at the time of writing. This attack once again raises question of security of the players, and of course of the citizens and tourists in the overall in the Turkey.

As transfer season is under the way right now in the Turkey, this developments might also affect into signing of the foreign players in this summer transfer window. There are reports that Schalke 04 player Roman Neustadner has arrived to Istanbul one-hour before the terror attack and also
Kayserispor head coach Hakan Kutlu was present during the attack as he has arrived from Brasil after having negotiations with some players. Adanaspor newly-signed player didnt attend first pre-season training session due of cancellation of flights. Surely following events would play an important role at the decision of those players. As remembered, when Mario Gomez was loaned to Besiktas he was reluctant to stay in Istanbul due of all this terror events. Therefore, clubs around Turkey has hard job to convince foreign players that Istanbul safe, even through number of citizens in the country dont believe that themselves.

This event also could lead to star players leaving the country or not coming at all and hence there are arleady signs that number of international star players would fall down next season this could also affect their decision.

Mainz05 signs Galatasaray player Jose Rodriguez for 4 years.

German club Mainz 05 has transferred unwanted Galatasaray player Jose Rodriguez for 4 years and would allow hence to make some cash to Galatasaray for summer transfers while Rodriguez would have chance to prove himself as good player in the Germany.

Rodriguez was among players who was expecting to bring a lot to Galatasaray when he was signed but he didnt provide it with his full scale. It needs to be stated that Rodriguez is by himself, to all fairness to him, is not top player and in fact club like Mainz05 would be more suitable for him in sense of showing his quality. Galatasaray would just be happy that this transfer has taken place in first month of summer as there is also other players, like Tarik Camdal, who it plans to sell and find other transfers and use revenue from transfer fees to make them reality. The club has gained 2,750,000 euro from this transfer.

Galatasaray is likely to provide more help to the development to Jose Rodriguez rather than he did to the team and it is expected that he would be help to mediocre teams like Mainz.

Trabzonspor are interested to transfer Balazs Dzudsiak.

Trabzonspor are interested to transfer Bursaspor and Hungarian National Team player Balasz Dzudzsak who had shown great performance at the Euro2016 this summer for his country and becoming one of the memorable names at the whole tournament.

Bursaspor is reported to be interested to sell Dzudzsak this summer and make some cash from his good performance at the Euro2016 so it could be good news that Trabzonspor is showing interest for him. But Trabzonspor surely needs to work fast to conclude this transfer as number of European top teams are expected to also start negotiations with Hungarian star after Euro2016. In either way, it does seem that Bursaspor in the end of the day would be in winning side.

Trabzonspor would have an advantage by signing a quality player who is also used to Turkish Super League so it is expected that it would do anything which it can do to transfer him.

Schedule
Europa League, 1st qualifying round, 1st leg:
20:00 Zimbru Chisinau (Mol)- Chikhura Sachkere (Geo) (Winner of this tie will play against Osmanlispor at 2nd qualifying round)

In other news: 


- UEFA: We are sending our condolences to the families who were involved at the Ataturk Airport attacks. We are next to Turkish families.We will not have minute of silence at the quarter-final games at the Euro2016 since its not football related and doesnt involve nations who are still at the competition.

- Turkish sports minister Akif Cagaday Kilic: To my information UEFA will not organised minute of silence in memory of victims at Ataturk Airport. I am saddened with this because everyone around the world needs to give strong message and support

- TFF issues licences at the National Club System to Alanyaspor.

- Akhisar Belediyespor has loaned Sporting Lisbon player Miguel Lopez for 1 year.

- Galatasaray head coach Jan Olde Riekerink assistants will be Ayhan Akman, Orhan Atik and Claudio Taffarel next season.

- Trabzonspor CEO Muharrem Usta: We would have around 25 players at pre-season training including 5 youth players.According to budget we had agreed on 6-8 transfers. For now we only transferred left back.

- Antalyaspor CEO Gultekin Gencer: In upcoming election it would change of leadership. After my reign I would still give support to team.

- Eskisehirspor CEO Halil Unal: Fenerbahce and other teams wanted our player Ruud Boffin but we not selling him.

- Galatasaray would start pre-season training sessions on 1st July and will move to Gwatt, Switzealand on 10th July. Galatasaray will play pre-season friendly games against Thun (12/07), Zurich (17/07) and Young Boys(19/07).Galatasaray will move to Denmark on 23/07 and stay until 29/07.

- FC Wil trainer Ugur Tuteneker and assistant coach Necati Uzun were deported to Turkey for not having work permit in Switzealand.

- West Ham United are interested to transfer Besiktas player Andreas Beck.

- Fenerbahce are close to transfer Liverpool player Martin Skrtel.

- Galatasaray has offered 1.5 million euro for Copenhag player Thomas Delaney while team requests 3 million euro.

- Fiorentina is requesting 5 million euro for its player Mario Gomez while Besiktas offering 3 million euro.

- Galatasaray is looking for sponsors which would be able to help with some transfers this summer.

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Frosione player Arlind Ajeti

- Indepediente doesnt plan to sell its player Victor Cuesta this summer. Besiktas were interested with him.

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Deportivo Maldanodo player Willian Jose.

What happened in Turkish football today? 28.06.2016

UEFA sends Cuneyt Cakir early from Euro2016.

It became clear today that UEFA has send back to Turkey, Turkish referee Cuneyt Cakir from France where he was refereeing for Euro2016 games with his last game being yesterday's Spain and Italy game. This announcement has been seen as surprise but many people inside Turkey and probably around the world.

With Cuneyt Cakir being one of the most trusted referees at the UEFA, which could be seen from appointing him in most toughest last 16 at the Euro2016 between Spain and Italy it was surprise to send him so early and there was expectation that he would be refereeing at the semi-final stages. One of the theories why he was send so early was suggested as the fact that he will be refereeing football competitions at the Rio Olympics which would take place on August. He also did recieve lots of criticism by Spain for his refereeing at the game against Italy but it is unlikely to be reason as he did do great job from neutral perspective.

Turkish people should be proud of his performance at the Euro2016 and surely he did better job than footballers at the tournament. It is surely that he wasnt send earlier due of his performance at the tournament.

Valencia has made agreement to sign Luis Nani.

Valencia has announced today that it did make deal with Fenerbahce player Luis Nani for the transfer and is expected to make deal with club for 8.5 million euro due of release clause which was stated at the contract with the player.

Fenerbahce did announce as soon as previous season was over that it intends to sell Luis Nani, among Robin van Persie, this summer and it was clear due of age and performance wise that Nani would be easier transfer. It does needs to be clear that Luis Nani did had better performance at Euro2016 compare at Fenerbahce and also has good tournament for himself so it should not be suprise for such an interest given by Valencia in the beginning of transfer window. Fenerbahce would recieve extra 8.5 million euro from this transfer and use this cash for other transfers including with potential signing of PSG player Gregory van del Wiel.

It needs to be said that Luis Nani did have good moments at the Fenerbahce but he could not give consistency at the team which led him to leave the team and get a good transfer to La Liga side Valencia.

Super League 2016-17 season will start on 19th August.

Turkish Football Federation has confirmed that Turkish Super League starting date would be 19-20-21st August weekend with 1st half of the season taking place for 16 weeks. As would been expecting the season would conclude later this season on 27th May and will provide in fact longer winter break, lasting 2 weeks, which however as expected would be filled with Turkish Cup games.

The winter break would start on 26th December and will last for 2 weeks and it would be having extra week as it will be lasting for 18 weeks. As expected there will be always World Cup 2018 qualifiers during the season also.  Otherwise, the system would be same as previous season with only exception that their will not be mid-week games compare to previous season where it happened twice due of parliamentary election in Turkey and also due of international friendly game against England.

Fixture draw of the league is expected as usual to take place on mid-July after which the teams can have pre-season training session with having clear aims for next season.

In other news:

- Osmanlispor has drawn friendly game against CSMS Iasi with 1:1 scoreline. 

- Osmanlispor CEO Sadik Dik:We have ended 1st part of pre-season training session.On 1st July we will fly to Holland.2-3 players will join us

- Besiktas player Veli Kavlak: I am this team player, I only talked with Slaven Bilic about injury not about transfers.

- Osmanlispor has loaned Trabzonspor player Aykut Demir for 1 season. Trabzonspor will pay 250,000 euro part of salary.

- Alanyaspor has transferred Stal Dniprodzerzhynsk player Akeem Latifu for 2 years.

- Adanaspor has loaned Sao Paulo player Ronei Gleison Rodrigues.

- Galatasaray general meeting has been moved to 30th June due of death of club administrator Alp Yalman mother.

- Karabukspor has transferred Osmanlispor player Serdar Deliktas for 2 years.

- Rizespor has transferred Persepolis player Ramin Rezaeian for 2 years.

- Kayserispor has had 1st pre-season training session with only 10 players.

- Porto has offered 6.5 million euro to Galatasaray player Alex Telles.

- Besiktas has announced that it would sell its players Pedro Franco and Alexander Milosevic this summer.

- Goztepe has signed Galatasaray player Emre Can for 2 years with 500,000 euro transfer fee.

- Rizespor has transferred FUS Rubat player Marwane Saadane for 3 years.

- Valencia has made an agreement with Fenerbahce player Luis Nani.

- West Ham United are interested to transfer Fiorentina player Mario Gomez, who was loaned to Besiktas last season.

- Rizespor head coach Hikmet Karaman:We had made transfer agreeement with Kasimpasa player Oscar Scarione and Hertha Berlin player Ceyhun Gulselam

- Gaziantepspor has declined Galatasaray offer for Orkan Cinar.

- Fenerbahce will play pre-season friendly game against Panathinaikos on 13th July.

- Besiktas, Fenerbahce and Galatasaray are interested to transfer Hannover 96 player Kenan Karaman.

- Besiktas: News about fight between Gokhan Tore and person who wanted to take picture with him dont represent truth.

- Fiorentina player Mario Gomez is requestion 5 million euro salary from Besiktas. Player manager Uli Ferber will have negotiations withclub

- Besiktas are interested to transfer Sevilla player Fernando Llorente.

- Akhisar Belediyespor player has agreed to drop his salary from 1.7 million euro to 1.2 million from Galatasaray offer.

- Galatasaray has opened criminal case against Fenerbahce CEO Aziz Yildirim with compensation of 1905 TL for events at Turkish Cup final.

- Besiktas are interested to transfer Indepediente player Victor Custa.

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Porto player Hyun Jun Suk.

- Trabzonspor has offered 2 million euro + Sefa Yilmaz for Basaksehirspor player Edin Visca.

- Qatar and Chinese clubs are interested to transfer Besiktas player Ricardo Quaresma.

- Besiktas has offered 1.8 million euro salary for 3 years to ex-Fenerbahce player Gokhan Gonul

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Las Palmas player Willian Jose.

- Kayserispor are interested to transfer Mersin Idman Yurdu player Welliton.

- Valencia has offered 6 million euro to Fenerbahce player Luis Nani.

- Eskisehirspor are interested to transfer Trabzonspor player Erkan Zengin.

- Galatasaray player Wesley Sneijder would join pre-season training session of the team which will start on 1st July.

What happened in Turkish football today? 27.06.2016

Bursaspor has announced agreement to transfer Serdar Kurtulus

Bursaspor has announced today that it has made 3 year deal with Besiktas player Serdar Kurtulus, and this transfer would surely help assist them to become stronger team and be a good alternative for the Serdar Aziz who it had sold to Galatasaray earlier this summer.

Serdar Kurtulus is a quality player who unfortunately to him is not in same level as other Besiktas players and sadly doesnt fit into the aims which team are looking for next season. However, Bursaspor does need player like him for next season as it is surely looking for much better performance compare to previous season as the team in overall, both administrator and supporters. Bursaspor as a team has always been aiming to get to the Europa League contention in the end of the season but some things didnt work out this season especially with the poor start of previous season. Team does need to make some quality transfers and Serdar Aziz is start for them for sure.

This transfer, assuming signaturies would be done in upcoming days, would be also great opportunity for Kurtulus where he would be able to get lots more playing time and once again show his quality in the league.

Salih Ucan and Emmanuel Emenike join Fenerbahce pre-season training.

Fenerbahce has organised today its first pre-season training session where it has called its two player Emmanuel Emenike and Salih Ucan who were loaned last season to West Ham United and Roma respectively.

There are talks that both players are very likely to stay at the team for next season and giving them chance to join with the team during pre-season training session is a good sign and does seem that it aims to make advantage of this players during next season. Meanwhile, there is also no inclusion at pre-season squad of Diego Rybas which once again shows that he is being unwanted man at the team right now. Club is awaiting for him to find another team or otherwise he would either train alone or with 2nd team squad next season.

This pre-season period is very important for Fenerbahce and so are transfers as it would aim to improve a lot from the past season performance and hence would work into ways on how to make team more stronger and together for next season.

Besiktas carries on negotiations with Gustavo Gomez.

The interest of the Besiktas with Lanus player Gustavo Gomez carries on as the manager of the player Augusto Paraja has stated that he has recieved an offer from Besiktas.

He also stated that there were offer from Fenerbahce but right now Besiktas is showing much more seriousness and the fact that Besiktas were interested with him for long time is not been secret around Turkish footballing world. It is reported that Lanus is requesting 7 million euro for transfer which needs to be stated is not big fee compare to other names which are taking place around Turkey this summer. It does seem that Besiktas is taking this transfer seriously and would go until the end to transfer him.

We would see in upcoming days or even weeks if this transfer would come into reality but it would surely solve defence issue which team has right now.

In other news:

- UEFA has appointed referee Ali Palabayik to referee Europa League qualifying 1st round game between Iceland Valur and Danish Brondby

- UEFA has appointed observer Kuddisi Muftioglu toobserve Europa League qualifying 1st round game between Georgian Dila and Armenian Shirak

- Galatasaray: Our club has terminated contract with our players Furkan Ozcal, Sercan Yildirim and Bilal Kisa.

- Adanaspor has transferred Zrinjski Mostar player Goran Karacic for 4 years.

- Fenerbahce player Diego Rybas didnt attend to today's pre-season training session.

- Advocate Sedat Vural has opened case against TFF demanding that Euro2016 attendance bonus would be paid back within 7 days.

- Trabzonspor general secretary Gencaga Meric: We didnt recieve any offers from Galatasaray for Cavanda.

- Trabzonspor head coach Ersun Yanal has attended his first training session with his new club.

- Akhisar Belediyespor has frozen transfer negotiation with Newcastle United player Gabriel Obertan as he requested 850,000 euro salary.

- Cordoba player Florin Andone has agreed for 5 year transfer to Galatasaray with 1 million euro salary.

- Manchester United are interested to transfer Valencia 14-year old youth player Ferhat Cogalan.

- Trabzonspor has offered 4 year contract to Fiorentina player Facondo Roncaglia.

- Besiktas will not sell its player Ricardo Quaresma for less than 15 million euro.

- Besiktas are interested to appoint Croatian National Team goalkeeper trainer Marjin Mrmic as club's goalkeeper trainer.

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Borussia Dortmund player Jakub Blaszkywski.

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Bastia player Julian Palmieri.

- Besiktas has offered between 2-3 million euro to Legia Warsaw player Michal Pazdan

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Zenit Petersburg player Hulk.

- Galatasaray are aiming to transfer 2 forward players this summer.

- Mainz05 has offered 2.2 million euro for Galatasaray player Koray Gunter.

- Bursaspor is expected to announce transfers of Bilal Kisa, Furkan Ozcal and Vieux Sane within the week.

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer ADO Den Haag player Mike Havenaar.

- Fenerbahce player Ozan Tufan transfer fee is expected to be no less than 20 million euro.

- Fenerbahce plans to use money recieved from potential transfer of Luis Nani to purchase Bayern Munich player Arjen Robben.

- Trabzonspor has offered 1,400,000 euro to Dallas for Fabian Castillo.

What happened in Turkish football today? 26.06.2016

Besiktas expects to transfer Gokhan Gonul as early as 28th June.

Besiktas are getting closer to sign ex-Fenerbahce player Gokhan Gonul with rumours coming out that official signing will take place on 28th June at the Vodafone Arena. He would become first player to sign with the team at the Vodafone Arena since its opening back in May.

As soon as it became clear that Gokhan Gonul will not stay at the Fenerbahce and even prior to that
Besiktas has started intensive negotiations with him and did manage to make deal as soon as he ended contract with Fenerbahce and when  Euro2016 has started. Besiktas has made a deal of 3 years with a salary of 1,700,000 euro and has made a very good transfer which surely would put into winning positions of both party even through it is known that Gokhan Gonul wanted to stay at his previous club but didnt happen due of conflicts between both sides.

Besiktas plans also to bring some supporters at the transfer ceremony and make it memorable one for everyone as it would be first one at the stadium. But more importantly it does look like Gokhan Gonul is capable to make team stronger for next season.

Fenerbahce will sign Gregory van del Wiel on 4th July.

Fenerbahce is starting having countdown until its first transfer which is expects to be PSG player Gregory van del Wiel who has informed to the club that he will be ready to sign contract on 4th July in Istanbul, according to the rumours around Turkish sports media.

As been mentioned at our previous blog entry, Gregory van del Wiel will be great transfer for the team for both sides and compare to the previous star players he does have chance to become player who would provide good performance as did Mario Gomez in Besiktas but of course it could be similar as Robin van Persie and Nani. Fenerbahce expects to sign him for 4 years. One of the important decision for Gregory van del Wiel was city of Istanbul itself which always been advantage for foreign players joining Istanbul clubs to extend that ex-Besiktas player Pascal Nouma is decided to live in the city.

Gregory van del Wiel as the player would make Fenerbahce much stronger as it aims to get to the Champions League while qualification or at least do good at Europa League in upcoming season.

Trabzonspor are close to sign Fabian Castillo.

Trabzonspor is known at showing strong interest to Dallas player Fabian Castillo in the way to make their team stronger for the next season as it tries to make team which would be able to fight for league title.

Fabian Castillo might not be well known for Turkish media and in fact it is hard to analyse him but statistics show that he is one of the leading players at the team. It is estimated that his value is around 1.2 million dollars which would mean that their will purchase him for not too much price as it needs also be careful with its transfer budget due of UEFA agreement as many other Turkish  clubs had with them. It is reported that Castillo wants to join the team and carry on his career at the Europe. This transfer, if Castillo shows his best performance and does come into reality can make team much stronger.

Trabzonspor is going through big revision and does look to do some signings without spending too much cash so it does need to look over good not-to-expensive players to make their team stronger next season.

In other news: 

- Galatasaray will play friendly game against Atletico Madrid at TT Telekom Arena on 6th August.

- Akhisar Belediyespor player Newcastle United player Gabriel Obertan.

- Osmanlispor are interested to loan Trabzonspor player Aykut Demir.

- Hull City are interested to transfer Osmanlispor player Umar Aminu.

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Porto player Juan Fernando Quintero.

- Galatasaray has ended negotiations with Barcelona player Alex Song without success.

- Fenerbahce player Salih Ucan would join team's pre-season training camp.

- Besiktas 2nd CEO Ahmet Nur Cebi: West Ham United wanted to loan Gokhan Tore but we are not interested to. We waiting for better offer.

- Ayhan Akman has stated that he will be appointed as Galatasaray assistant coach.

- Fiorentina player Mario Gomez: I told my manager that we can do negotiations with Besiktas but after Euro2016.

- Galatasaray plans to introduce bonus system where players will be paid only for draw and win of the games.

- Trabzonspor plans to sell its player Luis Cavanda and Aykut Demir this summer.

- Kasimpasa doesnt plan to sell its player Eren Derdiyok for less than 3.5 million euro.

- Fenerbahce has started negotiations with Olympique Marseille player Nicolas Nkoulau.

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Everton player Oumar Niasse.

- Trabzonspor are close to transfer Dallas player Fabian Castillo.

- Galatasaray has offer 2 million euro to Milan player Kevin Prince Boateng while Boateng wants to sign at least 3 year contract.

- Galatasaray player Hamit Altintop might consider leaving the team in upcoming days.

- Galatasaray plans to offer Ryan Donk and Umut Bulut for Trabzonspor player Luis Cavanda.

- Galatasaray goalkeeper trainer Claudio Taffarel will sign new contract with the team.

- Cordoba has asked 4 million euro for its player Florin Andone.

- Bursaspor has reduced transfer fee from 4 million euro to 3.5 million euro for their player Emre Tasdemir.

- Besiktas CEO Fikret Orman: We had made deal with 2 defence players who are competing at Copa America 2016

What happened in Turkish football today? 25.06.2016

Cuneyt Cakir will referee Euro2016 last 16 game between Italy and Spain.

Turkish referee Cuneyt Cakir, compare to the Turkish National Team, carries on his successful Euro2016 campaign with probably most exciting last 16 game at the tournament between Italy and Spain. UEFA has once again has shown its trust which it gives to Turkish referee.

Cuneyt Cakir has recieved lots of criticism inside Turkey and around Europe, as do most of the referees around the continent, in his previous performance for years but UEFA carries on putting into very important and crucial games including Champions League final last season for him to referee.
This time UEFA has appointed  him into the game which has been analysed as early final at the Euro2016 last 16 stage between Italy and Spain. With both teams being very successful so far at the tournament and with high egos of the players at the both sides of the teams it will be hard game to manage for Cakir but he is used to this level of games. As always, his decision will not be 100% correct but he does have strong capability to manage this game well.

Cuneyt Cakir has great chance to put another great game into his CV and mark his point as one of the top referees at the tournament and who knows maybe even get final even if it does seen as far aim right now.

Hamit Altintop would only recieve cash for games played at the next season.

Galatasaray administrators and player Hamit Altintop are reported to make a deal which would keep player at the side for next season without club wasting cash into him for nothing. It is reported that both sides has agreed with Hamit Altintop would only recieve cash for the games he will play and there will be no yearly salary at the deal between both sides.

Last season due of injury Hamit Altintop didnt recieve almost any gaming time which has led for team to pay salary to the player who didnt do anything during season. With FFP issues it has with UEFA it is seen as money wasted for nothing and this was among biggest issues which club needed to solve this summer. With Altintop getting older and recieving high number of injuries, with reports stating that it could be chronic injury, unsurprisingly teams doesnt want to purchase him. Hamit Altintop has suggested to make deal where he would only recieve cash for games he would play at as he wants to stay at the team and end his career, which does look coming to conclusion for him.

This deal surely would save cash to Galatasaray and make both sides satisfied regarding of conditions of the Hamit Altintop.

Roman Neustadner is close to be transferred to Fenerbahce.

Fenerbahce are getting close at making transfer deal with Schalke04 player Roman Neustadner in upcoming days with reported deal of 4 years with 2,000,000 euro salary. This transfer would help to issue defense question, which Fenerbahce having right now as there is no supporter for Simon Kjaer at the side right now.

It could been argued that Neustadner didnt show any satisfying performance at the Euro2016 with Russian National Team but it needs to be stated not  a single player did great job during the tournament in Russia and its hard to state out any specific player. Therefore, to state that Neustadner is not good player would be too harsh even through it could be seen that he is not playing to take a lead, but again you would not expect such an important role by defence player. Neustadner did play at the youth team back in German National Team and recieved lots of gaming time at Schalke 04.

Assuming that he would not cost much for a team is also good thing due of UEFA budget agreement.
Neustadner is quality player and could make an important role at the defence of the team and would be good transfer for sure.

In other news:

- Adanaspor has transferred Trabzonspor player Salih Dursun.

- Napoli has send an invitation to Besiktas to play pre-season friendly game and also celebration of its 90th birthday on 1st August

- Kosova national team head coach Albert Bunjaki: We are interest to send an offer to Serdar Aziz to play for our national team.

- Osmanlispor player Engin Bekdemir has joined team's first pre-season training session since being transferred to team.

- Bursaspor player Sinan Bakis has arrived to Bursaspor facilties to take tour around it.

- San Lorenzo has declined Besiktas 1.2 million dollar transfer fee for Emmanuel Mas.

- Galatasaray has send an offer to ex-Sevilla player Jose Antonio Reyes

- WestHamUnited plans to provide new offer to Besiktas for Gokhan Gonul after 13 million euro decline.

- Manchester United, Everton, Sunderland and Southampton are interested to transfer Fenerbahce player Ozan Tufan.

- Fenerbahce declines offers from Santos, Cruzeiro and Flamengo offers for Diego as it is below 3.5 million Euro.

- Shanghai Shenhua has offered 5 million euro to Fenerbahce player Fernandao, but offer was declined by club.

- Besiktas considers to sell its player Gokhan Tore to West Ham United.

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Juventus player Caceres.

- Besiktas might consider selling its player Atiba Hutchinson if its offer which is reasonable for such important player.

- Fenerbahce doesnt plan to sell its player Robin van Persie for less than 12 million euro.

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Palmeiras player Gabriel Jesus, Gremio player Luan and Club Brugge player Abdoulaye Diaby.

- Galatasaray plans to appoint coach Ayhan Akman as Jan Olde Riekerink assistant coach.

- Fenerbahce head coach Vitor Pereira wants for club to end transfers of two players until 2nd July.

- Besiktas and Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Bayern Munich player Arjen Robben.

- Trabzonspor has offered Dame N'doye + 1 million euro for loan of the West Ham United player Enner Valencia.

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer PSG player Alphonso Areole, Granada player Andres Fernandez, Valencia player Yoel Rodriguez.

- Galatasaray has requested 8.5 million euro from Porto for Alex Telles.

- Besiktas are interested to transfer Arsenal player Mathieu Debauchy

- Fenerbahce has offered 4 year contract to Schalke04 player Roman Neustadner for 1.8 million euro salary.

- Besiktas are interested to transfer Norwich player Martin Olsson.

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Cordoba player Florin Andone.

What happened in Turkish football today? 24.06.2016

Fatih Terim could be best option for Galatasaray head coach place.

Galatasaray is been known to have an interest towards Turkish National Team head coach Fatih Terim for long time now and since Turkey has been eliminated from Euro2016 it might start negotiations with him and Turkish Football Federation.

Fatih Terim has been done his coaching career both at the Galatasaray and national team in which both areas he has recieved great accomplishments even through this campaign at Euro2016 would be seen not being so good. It will be seen as surprising for Galatasaray to be interested with Terim after his failure at the Euro2016 however he is known always to provide great results at the team and might be person to lift up performance next season as his done many times before. There is even rumours that Bursaspor player Emre Tasdemir will only come to team if their appoint Fatih Terim. Right now its all depending on the national team and federation and would their like for Fatih Terim to carry on at the team for World Cup qualifier, and there are stronger signs that their do.

Fatih Terim does seem to be right now best option for Galatasaray but it does have any other choices including caring on with Jan Olde Riekerink which many players and administrators within the team seem to be seeing as good option.

Improving Pereira and van Persie relations could be good option as it is unclear if Persie would leave.

There are possibly will be taking place negotiations between Fenerbahce head coach Vitor Pereira with Robin van Persie to discuss about solutions to the problems which both sides has had past seasons and outcome of this meeting could make decision if he is going to stay at the team or not.

There are strong rumours meanwhile taking place that Lazio are very close to signing him and each party at this negotiations does seem to agree. It is hard to find team which could purchase with nice price so options right now does seem to be Lazio, China or for him staying at the team. It is unlikely that Lazio would offer high transfer amount for Robin van Persie as he is being 35 years old and with Holland not being at the Euro2016 was not able to raise his value. So the option to try to improve with Pereira and van Persie could be the best one. It does also look like van Persie doesnt want to stay at the club either.

If Robin van Persie will be sold successfully than from returned money it could transfer Gregory van del Wiel and Roman Neustadner among other cash which would come from 8 players it has ended contract with.

For now it looks Mario Gomez stays in Besiktas.

The uncertainty regarding of future of the Mario Gomez with Besiktas stays unclear however there is strong rumours going around that Gomez doesnt want to stay at the club.

If that is a case Gomez might have negotiations taking place with his team Fiorentina to try to sort out transfer fee issues and possibly try to reduce that price, this could be good outcome for Besiktas who according to contract was purchasing almost for free but since duration has been expired Besiktas has left with difficulty conditions. Mario Gomez has had good season last year and played an important role for the title and he liked Istanbul, and since club wants him to stay it is likely he would be at the team.

Only problem which could arise if during knockout stages Gomez will recieve game time and score goals which would change everything as big clubs would start sending impressive offers to him.

In other news:

- - Genclerbirligi has transferred Radnik Surdurica player Samuel Kwame Owusu for 3 years.

- Galatasaray: We had made an agreement with our player Serdar Aziz for 4 years with 2,000,000 euro salary/year.

- Galatasaray administrator Levent Nazifoglu: There is noone at the administration who doesnt want to work with Fatih Terim.FatihTerim first needs to resign from his Turkish National Team post however.We are in contact with many coaches. We would have meeting on Tuesday and possibly there about coach.

- Antalyaspor CEO candidate Ali Safak Ozturk: Our aim is to make foundation of club at first season and then build on youth academy.My aim is to make a team which would fight for title each season, not only 1-2 times.I want SamuelEto'o but only as footballer.

- Karabukspor football coordinator Tolga Gul: Our transfer season is going well. We know have negoations with 7-8 players.

- Everton are interested to transfer Galatasaray player Wesley Sneijder.

- Turkish National Team assistant coach Tumer Metin: We didnt have argument with Turkish National Team player Caner Erkin. I dont understand how this news are made up.

- Besiktas are interested to transfer Montpellier player Remy Cabella.

- Galatasaray has made an agreement of transfer with Antalyaspor player Emrah Bassan for 3 years.

- Fenerbahce player Volkan Sen will have an operation after medical control at the team.

- Trabzonspor player Yatabare has declined transfer offer from Kayserispor.

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Wil 1900 player Egemen Korkmaz.

- Bursaspor 2nd CEO Ali Ademoglu:We did have talks with Galatasaray about Emre Tasdemir but our head coach Hamza Hamzaoglu wants him to stay

- Kasimpasa plans to sell its player Eren Derdiyok for no less than 3.5 million euro.

- Trabzonspor are interested to transfer Besiktas player Dusko Tosic.

- Southampton has requested 11 million euro transfer fee for Graziano Pelle from Besiktas.

- Antalyaspor CEO Gultekin Gencer:We are as club has paid 9 million euro to Samuel Eto'o for 3 years stay.

- Number of Galatasaray administrators want to carry on with Jan Olde Riekerink as club head coach.

- Fenerbahce player Fernandao has declined transfer offers for last 15 days.

- Fenerbahce ended with negotiations with Olympique Marseille player Nicolas Nkoulou as didnt agree with his manager bonuses.

- Bursaspor plans to sell its player Tom de Sutter this summer.

- Besiktas would follow Legia Warsaw player Michael Pazdan at Suitzeland vs Poland game at the Euro2016 on 25th June.

- Mainz05 are interested to transfer Galatasaray player Jose Rodriguez.

- Besiktas are interested to transfer Copenhagen player Eric Johanneson.

- Italian media: Lazio has made transfer deal with Fenerbahce player Robin van Persie

- Galatasaray could be interested to loan Barcelona player Arda Turan, transfer Inter Milan player Felipo Melo and Akhisar Belediyespor HugoRodallega if Turkish National Team head coach Fatih Terim will be appointed.

- InterMilan player Felipe Melo has told to Galatasaray that he could go for reduction of salary from 2,750,000 if he joins club.

- Besiktas has informed its player Jose Sosa that he can leave club if he bring 12 million euro.

- Trabzonspor will start negotiations with Bursaspor player Tomas Necid in upcoming days.

- Galatasaray has requested 8 million euro from Porto for its player Alex Telles and has declined 5 million euro for Bruma.

- Besiktas are interested to transfer Borussia Dortmund player Neven Subotic.

- Fiorentina player Mario Gomez will meet with club administrators to make his transfer to Besiktas easier.

- Trabzonspor wants its player Erkan Zengin to decide if he wants to stay at the club or not in upcoming days.

- Everton and Sunderland are interested to transfer Fenerbahce player Ozan Tufan.

- Fenerbahce aims to keep its player Simon Kjaer this summer.