What happened in Turkish football today? 29/12/2017

Besiktas has ended 2017 in high form as it has performed whole season

Besiktas has ended its calendar year with top performance against Osmanlispor during Turkish Cup last 16 1st leg game with 4:1 scoreline and has more or less shown its performance of the game during whole 2017 year both the way team has played and focus it has given.

It is true that Besiktas did recieve number of criticism during this calendar year however it was very successful for them both in domestic front and also at European competitions. With game which everyone was used with Besiktas during this year it has shown also fast-paced game against Osmanlispor with only negative aspect for them could be of conceding goal from their opponents.
Meanwhile, even through for now its not 100% certain if Cenk Tosun would be leaving to Everton or not, Cenk Tosun has managed to send farewell to his fans, teammates and technical staff with his performance and farewell actions but as been stated he might still stay at the team. As been mentioned, Besiktas has provided a good game where Cenk Tosun has found also a goal which could be his last at his current team.

Coming to the tie, Besiktas has very likely got its quarter-final ticket at the Turkish Cup as it is hard for Osmanlispor to turn around tie even through it does have an away goal.

Basaksehirspor has had great calendar year without doubt.

With two days left until New Year, its time to go through performances of number of the clubs during 2017 with starting of Basaksehispor who have shown great performance in domestic front and has started pretty well at Champions League qualifiers but showed below expected performance at Europa League.

Basaksehirspor without doubt has marked an important mark during previous season as it was only opponent for league title towards Besiktas until one week left until of the season and has shown great performance. With carrying on similar performance and making nice transfers in summer period has managed to show everyone that this performance during this season has not being one-off. It has shown great performance on summer during Club Brugge at the Champions League 3rd qualifying round and also showed that its not much far behind of Sevilla during play-off stage. Even through it didnt start its Super League in great manner its still has managed to get points from their main opponents including beating Galatasaray with 5:1 scoreline. It would be entering to 2018 as league leaders right now with 1 point advantage. Only negative issue could be given to Europa League performance where inexperience in that front played an important role to team.

Basaksehirspor without doubt would be aiming to improve with its performance next year and would be aiming for league title which will not be seen as huge surprise at this tough season.

For Trabzonspor 2017 was unstable year with performance. 

Trabzonspor it needs to be stated that in overall 2017 could be seen as unstable as it has shown period of time of poor results and good results in both seasons and did lose lots of important points at crucial moments but it has all reasons to look at 2018 with high optimism.

Trabzonspor without doubt is keep looking for those periods which it has shown during scandalous 2011-12 season and with celebrating 50th birthday it was aiming for high aims for 2017-18 season and aimed to build up its momentum which it has got with Ersun Yanal during previous season. Even through it started calendar year reasonably well it didnt manage to continue with high level performance towards end of season getting surprising results in negative meaning. Ersun Yanal didnt manage to show great performance during this season which led for a team to end contract with him and appoint Riza Calimbay who in return has provided great results and only lost 2 games since October and does provide lots of hope for Trabzonspor in upcoming season as it is 6 points behind league leaders Basaksehispor and have big aims for this season and whole year.

One of the key players of this season for Trabzonspor has been Burak Yilmaz who has been transferred during summer transfer window and has arleady become one of the main goalscorers at team until now.

In other news:

- PFDK referalls:
- Bursaspor has been referred for behaviour of fans.
- Kayserispor administrator Oguzhan Erdogmus for anti-sportmanship action
- Antalyaspor for 5 red card + 2 yellow cards and actions as teamwise
- Antalyaspor player Maicon for breaking rules
- Konyaspor for behaviour of fans
- Osmanlispor player Anil Karaer for breaking rules
- Besiktas administrator Ahmet Nur Cebi for anti-sportmanship statements.

- Rizespor has transferred Sivasspor player Garip Guzel for 2.5 years.

- Orgryte CEO Joacim Nordh has stated that their didnt recieve an offer for Johan Elmander to be assistant coach of Galatasaray and for now he is staying at team.

- Everton administrators has arrived to Istanbul to have one-on-one transfer negotiations with Besiktas player Cenk Tosun.

- Besiktas player Denys Boyko manager Vadim Shabliy: We have recieved 3 offers for player. I cant name leagues but those league are better than Ukrainian league.

- Bursaspor will have its mid-season training camp between 4th-12th January in Antalya.

- Bursaspor CEO Ali Ay: Our aim is to sell as much players as we can during mid-season transfer window. We did send our offers to Moussa Sow and Patrick Twumasi, now we waiting for reply.

- Konyaspor considers to sell 4 players and transfer 4 players during mid-season transfer window.

- Galatasaray has offered 1.5 million euro offer to Dusseldorf player Kaan Ayhan.

- Goztepe has offered salary rise to its player Adis Jahovic to 750,000 euro.

- Galatasaray considers to sell its player Emrah Bassan during mid-season transfer window.

- Fenerbahce has set transfer fee of its player Ozan Tufan as 10 million euro.

- CardiffCity has offered 7 million euro for Besiktas player Oguzhan Ozyakup while Dusko Tosic has recieved 4 million euro from Stoke City.

- Basaksehirspor interested to transfer Antalyaspor player Samir Nasri.

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Inter Milan player Davide Santon.

- Genclerbirligi and Karabukspor are interested to transfer Eskisehirspor player Erkan Zengin.

- Tottenham Hotspur and Everton are interested to transfer Besiktas player Dusko Tosic while some Croatian clubs are interested with Matej Mitrovic.

- Sparta Rotterdam are interested to transfer Galatasaray player Ryan Donk.

- Kayserispor player Asamoah Gyan considers to end his footballing career in upcoming games.

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Roma player Cengiz Under.

- Trabzonspor player Theo Bongonda considers to leave team during mid-season transfer window.