Turkey national team has won calmly against Kosovo despite of internal issues.
It was important for Turkish National Team to get a confident win against Kosovo during World Cup Qualifier game both as their aim to be travelling to Russia next year and also to reduce pressure which it has during Arda Turan and Bilal Mese crises.
Even through it could been argued that Turkey didnt play its best football it did get a positive notes following the game and that is not only confident scoreline of 4:1. It needs to be stated that even through quality did play an important role during the game, Kosovo did provide great opposition to the Turkey and staying inside the game until it had lost its motivation when scoreline has turned to 3:1. It is obviously that Kosovo are aware that their likely to end group at the last place but their giving their best football. Coming to the Turkish National Team performance, youngsters at the team especially Caglar Soyuncu and Yusuf Yazici has provided a great performance with former scoring 2nd goal at the game while Yazici has provided his 1st assist to Ozan Tufan. As Mehmet Topal has stated after game that due of situation at the group it is in the hand to qualify to World Cup 2018 or to be out.This is good chance for Turkey to take everything in their hand and possibly fight for group leadership.
Iceland and Croatia who are 2 points ahead of Turkey and same points Ukraine all have good chances to get to the World Cup directly or through play-off even through Croatia and Iceland does have an upper hand, 2 point is low point different with 3 point system. And hence Turkey should focus for 1st place mentally and see where it brings them in October.
Fatih Terim shows that crises at national team is very serious.
Due of structure of this blog, games does come first at the blog entry however it needs to be noted, and everyone who has access to Turkish sports media among our visitors, would know that topic which has been dominated is post-match press conference by Fatih Terim.
Turkish National Team head coach Fatih Terim press conference has lasted for 87 minutes and with taking almost as same football game it needs to be stated that it was much more intriquing that game itself. Fatih Terim in his speech both back to the Euro 2016, Arda Turan - Bilal Mese case and to the future. Even through the amount of questions after that press conference still have left almost same amount of questions, some things did become clear. Fatih Terim for instance did state that the aim for Arda Turan was to provide apology and the text was written in that way but Arda has decided to announce his resignation. Meanwhile, after Fatih Terim conference Arda has connected to Turkish sports channel, NTV Spor (connected to one of the leading Turkish news channel NTV) stating that he has made decision to end his career at national team before hand. Fatih Terim also stated that bonuses discussion, which has been number one topic at national team coverage since Euro 2016, is only catalyst of crises and their been other negative things happening inside national team.
As been mentioned Fatih Terim statement didnt provide much light and did reduce number of questions but most crucial ones are still unaswered, but it did provide an image that crises which was seen to be inside team might be even worser than it seems. This is dangerous issue as its not any team which is under such condition. Its countries most important team, the team which (theoritically) every single citizen supports, regardless background, city and club s/he supports.
Flamengo has transferred Besiktas player Rhodolfo for 1,400,000 euro.
Coming back to the transfer front which slowly starts taking place prior to 17th June transfer window openning, Flamengo yesterday night (while people involved at the sports media were sleeping or had after shock from Fatih Terim conference) has announced that it has made transfer deal with Rhodolfo.
Today daytime Besiktas has also announced transfer and send farewell message to Rhodolfo.
According to Besiktas statement, Rhodolfo has been sold with 1,400,000 euro transfer fee and even through in previous year Rhodolfo has played an important role at the team he didnt recieve much playing opportunity during this season and has been logically for such transfer with player returning to his country. It was important for Besiktas to provide such a transfer due of FFP regulations and even the cash is not particularly much it now can focus more into Domagoj Vida transfer among others as it would aim to slightly make squad stronger if it wants to have good season at the Champions League. Besiktas does in fact mainly focus to sell players which doesnt have much chance to use players who would be playing this season and use coming cash into new players.
Besiktas doesnt aim to change much its existing starting 11 but it does aim quite naturally to make it even stronger and get also alternative players for next season.
In other news:
- Kayserispor would start training camp on 28/06 - 5/07 in Kayseri, 1st pre-season camp in Erzurum between 6/07-15/07 and after Austria 18/07-31/07.
- Antalyaspor will have 1st pre-season camp in Bolu between 2/07-16/07 and 2nd camp at Salzburg between 18/07-30/07.
- Galatasaray will have administrative meeting on 14th June.
Antalyaspor has transferred Genclerbirligi player Aydin Karabulut for 2 years.
- Mathieu Valbuena has went through medical checkup for Fenerbahce:
- I am aware of the big aims for next season. We would aim for league title and I hope to end this wait for title of fans.:I had conversations with Aykut Kocaman and administator Hasan Cetinkaya. Team has exciting projects. I am glad to be part.
- Hamburg has set transfer fee of their player Alen Halilovic as 4 million euro. Galatasaray are interested to transfer him.
- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Sunderland player Fabio Borini.
- Freiburg are interested to transfer Basaksehirspor player Cengiz Under, meanwhile club has set transfer fee as 15 million euro.
- Altay has transferred Sivasspor player Ibrahim Ozturk for 2 years.
- Bursaspor has made 3-year principal agreement with Kayserispor player Guray Vural.
- Borussia Dortmund player Emre Mor manager Muzzi Ozcan: We had recived transfer offers but Dortmund wants to keep him so is new coach. But there is option to loan him, we could consider this option.
- Fenerbahce player Volkan Demirel manager Erdinc Sehit: We had recieved transfer offers but we declined them all. He would end career at Fenerbahce.
- Trabzonspor are interested to transfer Empoli player Levan Mchelidze
- Lazio are interested to transfer Bayer Leverkusen player Hakan Calhanoglu.
- Besiktas are interested to transfer Bayern Munich player Erdal Ozturk.
- Bursaspor has made an agreement with Azerbaijan National Team head coach Robert Prosinecki for 2 years
- Besiktas and Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Deportivo La Coruna player Celso Borges.
- Besiktas: Our player Rhodolfo has been sold to Flamengo with 1,400,000 euro transfer fee.
- Feyenoord are interested to transfer Galatasaray player Sinan Gumus.
- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Deportivo La Coruna player Juanfran.
- Kayserispor CEO Erol Bedir: We have extended contract with Umut Bulut and raised him to captaincy of team.We didnt recieve any transfer offers for Deniz Turuc he is currently our player.
- Trabzonspor player Ogenyi Onazi manager Stephen Makinwa: Onazi will leave Trabzonspor but I cant say Fiorentina move is true.
- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Hull City player Dieumerci Mbokani.
- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Lorient player Benjamin Moukandjo
- Dinamo Kiev player Domagoj Vida:Why we talking about Besiktas during national team break. Its like all world turns around Besiktas.I am Dinamo Kiev player right now.
- Galatasaray has raised transfer offer for Dinamo Kiev player Youness Belhanda to 6.5 million euro.
- Goztepe are interested to transfer Galatasaray player Hakan Balta.
- Besiktas are interested to transfer Roma player Thomas Vermaelen.
- Turkish National Team player Enes Unal was taken into custody as team plane has arrived to airport but was released later.
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