Turkish National Team doesnt show bright future from those friendlies.
Turkish National Team didnt end its 2017 year in very high note as after not getting qualified for the World Cup 2018, it has now lost two friendly games against Romania and Albania without providing any promising football during this period.
It could been argued in defence of the Mircea Lucescu that he has purposefully allowed to play youth players who didnt get much playing time at their teams and helped getting adapted to the team and hence working on future generation. But this process certainly will not help him or even more importantly could lead him to waste time at finding the best squad during Euro 2020 qualifiers which is crucial here. The fact that those players didnt get used to each other did provide such a poor performance especially against Albania who had 1 less man for more than 1 half. Of course, if all this work and will bring a very strong national team next September than he might be praised for this experiments and working with youth in last 2 games but for now we are seeing poor results, and of course public and sports media are expecting good results from national team side even when its only friendly games. It is true that this team is not giving much promise for its future and the problem needs to be looked more deeper and not only at Mircea Lucescu.
Turkish National Team did have trouble to get upper hand against Romania and Albania during this period not only with goal score but also game wise and this is indeed worrying image of a team.
Turkish National Team head coach Mircea Lucescu would stay at his position
Turkish National Team head coach Mircea Lucescu after ending chances for World Cup 2018 qualification, has been working mainly as an advocate for youth and potential stars of Turkish football which could be good news in long run but right now it doesnt seem to show any advantages with team results.
It became clear that Lucescu has met with Turkish Football Federation today to discuss about his future at this position and both sides has come to conclusion that he should stay as head coach and has also talked about future of the Turkish football and national team especially. It is certain that Lucescu did discuss about importance of working of youth players because if he didnt and focus on other things would mean he lies to the media. It needs to be stated that Lucescu still wants to work with this job among controversial this decision might bring, could also mean in optimistic note that he possibly sees potential with this team. This blog usually is against for change of head coaches in frequent and as team doesnt go to World Cup it should given him chance to work with team and see what plans he has until at least start of Euro 2020 qualifiers.
Lucescu is risky coach right now as he tends to speak more rather than showing results but once again maybe he is working on process and things might get better with him.
FIFPro sees ban for Osmanlispor player Ozer Hurmaci for 6 months too harsh.
FIFPro has announced today that ban which was given to Osmanlispor player Ozer Hurmaci for 6 months for asking compensation for Trabzonspor but later what turned out to be that he has ended contract in unethical manner towards him as too much.
FIFPro has especially focussed into amount of compensation asked from him during this process stating that fact that it is higher than what Hurmaci has requested from Trabzonspor is unallowed and needs to be changed. Therefore, organisation makes it clear that Trabzonspor is demanding much bigger share which it needs to do regardless if player did some wrongdoing or not. Of course, FIFPro as organisation representing players doesnt have many areas to act upon, it would lead to Trabzonspor to get negative coverage around Europe due of announcement which organisation has made and might even affect how players would percieve during transfer negotiations in short period of time and it is interesting if this could lead to some changes of ban, even through it still very unlikely.
Still, as mentioned this has been good coverage for Ozer Hurmaci and even through not huge one but still has provided pressure towards TFF and Trabzonspor after this.
In other news:
- Turkish observer Murat Ilgaz has been appointed to World Cup 2018 inter-continental play-off 2nd leg game between Australia and Honduras.
- Galatasaray will be raising its capital ceiling from 432 million TL to 540 million TL.
- Besiktas player Pepe has become injured during international friendly game between Portugal and USA.
- Trabzonspor are expected to start with Hugo Rodallega and Burak Yilmaz during Super League 12th week game against Osmanlispor.
- Fenerbahce player Ozan Tufan expects to be playing against Sivasspor during Super League 12th week game.
- Besiktas considers to sell its players Mustafa Pektemek, Mitrovic, Aras and Boyko during midseason transfer window.
- Besiktas player Dusko Tosic has left Serbian National Team training camp to be ready for Super League 12th week game against Akhisarspor.
- Galatasaray player Tolga Cigerci is expected to start against Basaksehirspor during Super League 12th week game.
- Fenerbahce plans to start with Volkan Demirel during Super League 12th week game against Sivasspor.
- Galatasaray considers to transfer forward player during mid-season transfer window.
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