15 February 2018

What happened in Turkish football today? 14/02/2018


Fenerbahce has send complaint for fixture timetable released by TFF.

Fenerbahce aims to send complaint towards Turkish Football Federation stating it is unhappy with schedule of their games as their would be playing against Akhisarspor in league after 2 days following Turkish Cup semi-final 1st leg game against Besiktas.

One of the defences of Fenerbahce is that their opponents would be playing their next days in minumum after 3 days which compare to them would allow them to get an extra day. There is talks of around that European clubs has more intense scheduling and its normal for them to play 2 games in one week which is rarity to the Super League teams and hence their complaint is not being effective for playing too much games. For instance, Besiktas does complain much about upcoming next 3 weeks schedule but it needs to be remembered that Bayern Munich would have similar scheduling and are not complaining about it from our knowledge. However, playing 2 games within 4 days is even too much and would not allow lots of time to prepare for game so to some extend Fenerbahce is right for complaint. Sadly, with knowing situation in Turkey there is high chance that this matter could be moved into different directions by other clubs such as by Besiktas.

The time would show what kind of decision would TFF make after such a complaint but it would be expected for them to make some changes in fixture list.

Galatasaray players didnt recieve salaries up to 7 months.

Economical situation which has been left at Galatasaray from its ex-CEO Dursun Ozbek has been among biggest talks still at the Turkish sports media with news that before Mustafa Cengiz number of players has been waiting for months to recieve their wages.

It was known that foreign players didnt recieve for 4 months and even through their could have left team according to contract their have decided to stay at team and play great game. What has become clear is that number of domestic players didnt recieve their wages for 7 months which makes situation even more problematic but again players show some goodwill. Galatasaray CEO Mustafa Cengiz has started paying those wages towards players and carry on doing so with aiming to end this debt to players in short period as possible. Mustafa Cengiz main priority after becoming CEO has been hence to solve those issues. Meanwhile, there are also news today that number of Turkish basketball players has been close to leave team due of same reasons but part of payments done which led for crises to be averted.

Galatasaray CEO Mustafa Cengiz does look like to have many issues to solve at clubs especially economically but it can be stated that until now he seems to be handling pretty well.

Karabukspor chances to stay at league are very low. 

One of the talking points right now has been if Karabukspor would be able to stay at the league or even fight for that spot until end of the season.

Even through their 9 points behinds 15th placed Antalyaspor which is even hard to achieve is still possible their economical situation and also performance does raise some questions. To some extend, losing to Basaksehirspor and Besiktas and other teams which are fighting for upper places is not too problematic regardless of scoreline, even through even 1 point would provide incredible confidence and motivation to a team. But its mainly important obviously how their compete with their opponents below, and in recent games their did show some hope for that. However, it is visible that Karabukspor motivation are at low as been observed against Besiktas and team has lack of focus and strength.

Therefore chances of Karabukspor to stay at the league are vague and not due of 9 point difference but situation team is at financially and confidence.

In other news:

Spartak Subotica have loaned Basaksehirspor player Cheikhou Deing until end of the season.

Galatasaray CEO Mustafa Cengiz: We are working hardly with a club around 15 working days with hard work. We need to announce our debt as media states wrong numbers. We made 60 million euro payments, it was hard to make transfers.

Turkish observer Oguz Sarvan has been appointed to observe Europa League 2nd round 1st leg game between Astana and Sporting Lisbon.

Trabzonspor player Burak Yilmaz has resumed training session after recovering from injury.

Bursaspor has asked for TFF to name Super League 2018-19 season after its ex and deceased CEO Ibrahim Yazici.

Fenerbahce player Martin Skrtel expects to join training session on 19th February.

Besiktas administrator Ahmet Nur Cebi: Team is not choosing games but their can be tired from Champions League. But we still in race, there is still long time until end of season. Negredo is great player, he helps team even if he doesnt score.

Besiktas player Tolgay Arslan: We need to provide good performance and result for Champions League game against Bayern Munich in Bayern so 2nd leg fans would provide strong support. Fans give strong advantage at our stadium.We have some chance to win Bayern and hope for surprise

Galatasaray head coach Fatih Terim has set an aim to win all of the 4 upcoming games

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