What happened in Turkish football today? 25/12/2017

Fatih Terim didnt win yesterday as he didnt provide changes to the team but he plans to do them in mid-season period.

Galatasaray has provided a very good and organised football during Super League 17th week game against Goztepe as it has won with 3:1 game at the game which has marked return of Fatih Terim but it needs to be stated that team has provided similar performance with Igor Tudor at home games.

Without doubt with Fatih Terim returning to the team has affected to motivation and concentration towards fans and players which led them possibly provide an extra effort during game against Goztepe but with only training 2 days it needs to be admitted that this win has come with help of Igor Tudor. Galatasaray would play its Turkish Cup at home ground also once again so it will not be possible to see how Fatih Terim would perform at away game during this calendar year. Without doubt Fatih Terim is aware of some issues which team has and/or areas which are not suitable for his style of play and its clear that upcoming changes would be done to solve those issue both during training sessions and also with transfer politics at the team. One of the most talked areas is being transfer of left-back to the team. Galatasaray is not at mess but still Fatih Terim has lots of changes to do at the team.

Therefore, this mid-season period is expected to be most active for Galatasaray among Super League and time would show what kind of changes team will be going through.

Trabzonspor wanted to win Karabukspor badly but it didnt manage to do that.

Trabzonspor draw of 1:1 against Karabukspor prior to mid-season break without doubt has been seen by many as huge surprise as their had dominated in last 5 games and has brought an important win but it is clear that all teams apart Galatasaray has struggled in this week.

It does need to be stated that stating that Trabzonspor has performed badly and didnt deserve win would be slightly understatement as team did come out fully concentrated and willing to win game but it is Karabukspor had strong intentions to use this game as opportunity to enter to mid-season period with some positivism from gloomy position and also see it as good comeback to the league. Trabzonspor especially towards end of the game has done everything to find goals but without converting those chances into goal including golden opportunity by Jose Sosa it has failed to get an important win which would put them towards 5 point margin to the league leaders. Trabzonspor still are going into improvement and main aim for Riza Calimbay without doubt would be to get into more winning spirit to the team.

Trabzonspor would end its calendar year with Turkish Cup last 16 1st leg game with title-holders Konyaspor as where it would be aiming to get an important win and get to mid-season break with raised motivation.

Fatih Terim has great chance to test his reserve and academy players against Bucaspor.

With 1-day break from games and due of interesting scheduling by Turkish Football Federation, Galatasaray would come out to the Turkish Cup last 16 1st leg game against Bucaspor at which it would play its last game of 2017 calendar year.

Without doubt Galatasaray as a team is still going through fury of Fatih Terim joining team on 22nd December and this motivation from fans and players would be carried on during that Turkish Cup, bad news for certain for Bucaspor. Meanwhile, it is known that some players especially foreigners main players will not be playing due of festive period as their had called for break and also likely Fatih Terim will not even start with them in either case. It is known that Terim one of the aims at his return is to move forward and use as much as he can youth players for future, and this is great opportunity to test them at the game at Bucaspor as those players would be aiming to show their best performance to Emperor. Therefore, this high motivation which were seen against Goztepe would be carried on at game against Bucaspor.

The main aim will be to get advantage score after that game and also help Fatih Terim to be aware of what kind of things he has at hand in sense of reserves at academy using Bucaspor as test game.

Results:
Turkish Super League,17th week:
Osmanlispor 3:2 Akhisarspor

Schedule:
Turkish Cup, Last 16, 1st leg:
18:30 Genclerbirligi - Bursaspor
20:30 Galatasaray - Bucaspor

In other news:

- TFF has announced referees for Turkish Cup last 16 1st leg games played on 26th December, which are:
- Genclerbirligi-Bursaspor: Baris Simsek
- Galatasaray- Bucaspor: Ali Sansalan

- Galatasaray: Our CEO election which would take place on 13/20th January is taking for period for next 3 years.

- Alanyaspor has terminated contract with its head coach Safet Susic.

- Galatasaray has signed professional contract with its academy player Ahmet Sivri.

- Bursaspor has terminated contract with its player Furkan Ozcal.

- Sivasspor will starts its mid-season training camp in Antalya from 3rd January.

- Galatasaray player Fernando Muslera, Mariano, Maicon, Bafetembi Gomis, N'diaye and Fernando are not included at Turkish Cup last 16 1st leg game against Bucaspor.

- Galatasaray doctor Yener Ince has stated that its player Fernando recovery process will take place 3 weeks and Garry Rodrigues would be recovered for mid-season training camp.

- Besiktas CEO Fikret Orman: We have many players at position which Arda Turan even through we would like to have him. But we are not interested. We dont have intention to sell Cenk Tosun even if we achieve good offers.

- Deportivo La Coruna are interested to transfer Fenerbahce player Ozan Tufan.

- Galatasaray head coach Fatih Terim will include at his technical staff: Hande Sumertas, Sukru Hanedar, Fahri Yilmaz and Fatih Ibradi.

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Bologna player Saphir Taider.

- Besiktas considers to transfer Manchester United player Marouane Fellaini in upcoming summer without transfer fee.

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Gremio player Arthur Henrique, Fluminense player Marcus Wendel and Carleto.

- Chinese club has offered 14 million euro for Besiktas player Ryan Babel.

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