What happened in Turkish football today? 22/03/2018

Turkey would be playing against Republic of Ireland for Lucescu to check current condition of players.

Turkish National Team would be starting with Republic of Ireland game during this period of international friendly games as its head coach Mircea Lucescu has set an aim to make new team and also develop Turkish youth and general Turkish football with long-term process.

Since Turkey didnt qualify to World Cup 2018 due of poor performance in qualifiers it did get at least good opportunity to get long term plan and preparation for Nations League tournament and to study all of the weaknesses team has during this friendlies game. With Republic of Ireland being one of the teams which has been improved in recent years, their would be able to provide great test for the team as Turkey could be argued could do same vice versa. One of the interesting aspects of the team could be stated that their are 3 Istanbulspor players at the squad but this mainly been done to focus into youth players as Lucescu likely to see some potentiality in them and players have good opportunity to show everyone why Lucescu has this belief to them during this friendly games.

Meanwhile, this title race should have kept number of players at great form but those friendly games would be able to show how much are those players able to provide top level performance at national level without foreign stars.

Galatasaray highly likely to get transfer of Inter loaned player Yuto Nagatomo.

Without doubt as it was been at news updates at our Twitter and Facebook accounts clear, Galatasaray main transfer focus has been Yuto Nagatomo as team focusses into transferring him using an advantage that player wants to stay at the team.

With Galatasaray administration has been focussed to transfer Kwadwo Asamoah in recent transfer periods, the alternative of Yuto Nagatomo has been ending up being very effective for a team as his adaptation after few games has shown him high level performance. Without doubt also recieving lots of game time and also having an opportunity to be selected to Japanese National Team for World Cup 2018 has allowed Nagatomo to be successful. Factor of being to be selected at starting 11 compare to Inter Milan and also showing good performance has moved him to wanting to stay at the team. Galatasaray right now focusses to make this transfer deal with him for 2 million euro and factors right now including possibility of Asamoah joining Inter could turn into his advantage.

Since their is still long-term until summer transfer window it is hard to state anything but speaking from today it does look Galatasaray to make deal with Inter Milan in summer.

Turkish clubs would focus to reduce average age during summer transfer window. 

As been mentioned above it is still long-time until start of the transfer window, but it does look like that the main focus would be given towards its academy and also getting young players from abroad.

Super League is been recorded as 2nd most oldest team in Europe and this without doubt provides huge issues at the team future investment and also performances at the Europe. It was stated at the blog that Galatasaray would be focussing to making average age much lower and it would be expected to be case in all Turkish clubs. The main way to find solution is to focus on its youth academy by at 1st moving some players to main squad and continue them develop this time in senior level in short term and longer term focus into whole system of academy at making , regardless how much I dont like to refer as such, into factory of players and at least make strong players for level of Super League and also to bring successes to national team. There is willingness at least for club administration to focus on that as it is very crucial but how it would turn into reality depends on actions rather than statements from clubs.

It is crucial for team administrations at the league to be aware that this is long term project and if its done right would bring great pluses in future and should not focus into present gains. Leaving today is advantage, but not in things when investment for future is crucial.

Schedule:
International Friendly Games:
20:30 Turkey - Republic of Ireland

In other news:

- PFDK decisions:
- Kasimpasa has recieved warning and blockage of section of the stand for behaviour of fans.
- Basaksehirspor has recieved blockage of section at stand for behaviour of fans
- Besikas has recieved 170,000 TL fine and blockage of section of stands for behaviour of fans.
- Konyaspor head coach Sergen Yalcin has recieved 1-game ban and 26,000 TL for anti-sportmanship statements.
- Fenerbahce has recieved 300,000 TL fine for 7th time behaviour per season, 45,000 TL fine for actions at the field and blockage of stands.
- Fenerbahce and Galatasaray has recieved 35,000 TL fine for not leaving stairs at stands empty
- Fenerbahce head coach Aykut Kocaman and CEO Aziz Yildirim has recieved warning for anti-sportmanship statements
- Galatasaray has recieved 20,000 TL fine for 2nd time behaviour per season, 15,000 TL fine for actions at the field and blockage of stands.
- TurkishNationalTeam players Abdulkadir Omur and Mehmet Zeki Celik has been included to Turkish National Team Under-21 side for U21 Euro 2019 qualifier against Sweden.

- Besiktas player Pepe is expected to be able to play against Alanyaspor during Super League 27th week game.

- Fenerbahce player Vincent Janssen expects to recover from injury until Turkish Cup semi-final 2nd leg game against Besiktas.

- Trabzonspor player Filip Novak wants to start against Galatasaray during Super League 27th week game.

- Manchester City, Arsenal and Barcelona are interested to transfer Roma player Cengiz Under.

- Goztepe plans to make extension contract with its player Demba Ba for 2 years.

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Valladolid player Jaime Mata.

- Schalke has offered 12 million euro for Trabzonspor player Yusuf Yazici.

- Besiktas are interested to transfer Olympiakos player Konstantinos Fourtosis.

- Everton are interested to transfer Besiktas player Oguzhan Ozyakup.

- Besiktas aims to have pre-season training camp this summer in Singapour.