What happened in Turkish football today? 30/07/2018

Trabzonspor transfers Majid Hosseini.

Trabzonspor has transferred Majid Hosseini officially today after having on-going transfer negotiations with Iranian National Team player who has managed to shown good performance at the World Cup 2018.

Trabzonspor without doubt are among clubs at the Super League who needs to make effective but in same economically wise transfers due of economical and FFP conditions at the country. Taking account this aspects it needs to be mentioned that team has managed to make an effective transfer as player would be able to move team forward as side has been tried to finalise this transfer even when World Cup was taking place in Russia. Assuming also closeness with culture between nations Hosseini would be expected to be fast to get used to Turkish culture and would have enough time to be ready for next season which starts in 2 weeks time and Trabzonspor does move up to be better team compare to next season with smart transfer politics this summer.

Majid Hosseini would be expected to show his effectiveness to Trabzonspor without doubt during next season and move team forward with his performance.

Ankaragucu transfers Bakary Kone for 2+1 years.

One of the surprising transfer deals today has been come from Ankaragucu as it has transferred Bakary Kone for 2+1 years as he has been team which number of clubs didnt manage to transfer during this summer, including Trabzonspor.

In fact, this transfer would be expected to become most successful and discussed transfer for newcomers Ankaragucu this summer as player would be able to provide an effective performance for capital side which is expected to show high level performance at the side during next season and make sure that team would be staying at the top league for longer than 1 season at least and if Kone would be able to provide his high expectations it would be able to get those results with his help without doubt.  With also signing contract with its last season loan player Lahre Kehindi for 3 years, team continue this summer transfer window in pretty effective manner showing its aims to make sure that team would stay at top division and would carry on to focus into this transfers during last month of transfer window.

Hence, Kone has been an effective transfer for a team without doubt as it aims to make their mark pretty strong during next season at the Super League.

Trabzonspor has loaned Zargo Touri for 1 season.

With also transferring Majid Hosseini, Trabzonspor in fact has not been quiet during today at transfer front as it has made transfer deal with Lorient player Zargo Touri as club has loaned player for 1-year.

Touri has arrived to Istanbul yesterday and is expected to arrive to Trabzonspor where final agreements would be made as for now it is known that club has managed to loan him for season with 300,000 euro and player has been among players which team has aimed to transfer for some time now. In similar manner as Hosseini, Touri is expected to make side much stronger for next season as player has provided great performance beforehand at the side which are in level of Trabzonspor and taking account economical situation of the club this could be seen as effective and right into mark transfer for a side without doubt. As signing ceremony is expected to take place at short place, Trabzonspor would likely to focus for another transfer this summer.

With transferring Zargo Touri team has managed to make another right into track transfer for sure during this summer.

In other news:

- Basaksehirspor has lost pre-season friendly game against Stuttgart with 3:1 scoreline.

- TSYDCup Ankara section tournament which was expected to take place between Ankaragucu, Sivasspor, Bursaspor and Alanyaspor has been cancelled due of condition of the stadium prior to start of season.

- Bursaspor has loaned Estoril player Allano Lima for 1 year with 350,000 euro fee.

- Besiktas player Atiba Hutchinson would recieve 825,000 euro salary for 1+1 year extension contract.

- Bursaspor has terminated contracts with its player Sercan Yildirim and Serdar Kurtulus.

- Trabzonspor player Kamil Ahmet Corekci has become injured during today's training session. Meanwhile, Majid Hosseini has attended his 1st training session.

- Trabzonspor administrator Zeyyat Kafkas: We aim to transfer 3 defenders and right-winger until end of window. We are continuing negotiations with Erick Ayuk in secretive manner.

- YeniMalatyaspor has made transfer deal with Red Star Belgrade player Mitchell Donald.

- YeniMalatyaspor CEO Adil Gevrek has stated that club aims to make 3-4 high quality transfers during this summer.

- Besiktas considers to terminate contract with its player Veli Kavlak and Aras Ozbiliz.

- Fenerbahce player Roberto Soldado has resumed training sessions after recovering from injury.

- Goztepe are interested to transfer Stuttgart player Mario Gomez.

- Ankaragucu has signed sponsorship deal with Ozkaya Medical Center

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Fenerbahce player Mathieu Valbuena

- UEFA has announced that referee of Europa League 2nd qualifying round 2nd leg game between Besiktas and B36 Torshavn will be Carlos Xistra.

- Gremio has offered 10 million euro for Fenerbahce player Guiliano.

- Rizespor are interested to transfer Galatasaray player Ahmet Calik.

- Empoli are interested to transfer Fenerbahce player Salih Ucan.

- Galatasaray head coach Fatih Terim has informed administration that their is no need for goalkeeper transfer during summer transfer window.

- Tottenham Hotspur, Real Madrid and Arsenal are interested to transfer Fenerbahce player Omer Faruk Beyaz.

- Besiktas has offered 1+1 year extension contract to its player Ryan Babel and Adriano.

What happened in Turkish football today? 15/07/2018

Trabzonspor player Burak Yilmaz would have operation due of ongoing injury.

Trabzonspor player Burak Yilmaz has left pre-season training camp as he would be having an operation of his ongoing injury which he seems to be trouble to get fully recovered since end of the last season.

As it would be remembered, Burak Yilmaz has been injured for most part of the last season which also has cost him a chance to become most goalscorer or at least provide some pressure to Bafetembi Gomis. It was also known that he has provided lots of pressure in his injury towards end of last season where he has played some games while being injured as he wanted to help team to get Europa League which didnt happen as Akhisarspor has won Turkish Cup. Now, it does look like that this decisions has been affected to Burak Yilmaz as he showing difficulty at fully recovery for injury. Right now as been stated he would be leaving to Germany to have another operation and certainly would focus to show fully recovery until start of new season as without doubt he is being very important player to the side.

It is important that Burak Yilmaz would show fast recovery and be ready as he is being pushing force at front without doubt at side.

Fenerbahce wants to loan Vincent Janssen for another season.

Fenerbahce head coach Phillip Cocu has informed to administrative side that he wants for Tottenham Hotspur player Vincent Janssen who was loaned to Fenerbahce last season to stay for another season.

Despite of number of injuries which led Janssen do not play at number of games, he has shown great performance and as was remembered Fenerbahce head coach Aykut Kocaman was considering to keep him when he was still coach of the team. With taking account that both Cocu and Janssen being Dutch it is obvious that Cocu sees some potential with player and aims to get maximum performance from Janssen. It needs to be noted and reminded that Janssen also wants to stay at the club which is great advantage for side to make deal with Tottenham Hotspur and days would show if Hotspur would be willing to loan its player to Fenerbahce for another season,which would be without doubt great advantage for a team as it needs players like him for league title.

Fenerbahce are expected to start negotiations with Tottenham in upcoming days and are expected to make deal soon.

Senol Gunes against selling its player Ryan Babel this summer. 

It is reported that Besiktas head coach Senol Gunes has informed to club's administration that he is critically against for Ryan Babel to be sold during this summer transfer window.

It is reported that Gunes does understand and partially approves of selling Domadoj Vida and Ricardo Quaresma as it would be able to bring high amount of cash which clubs desperately needs but stated that if it would be selling Babel than it would affect to the team structure and negatively affect to the team performance. Assuming of aims which Besiktas has for next season, Senol Gunes is right as selling such a key players who are showing great performance would provide incredible down side of performance and would affect their title race and more crucially its high aims for Europa League. Besiktas administration hence needs to find way how to keep economically strong without just selling its star players and not seeing them as only ways to get cash to the club.

So far, it does look Besiktas aims to get cash from selling players which are important to side and it needs to find ways to find other ways how cash could be coming to the team.

In other news:

- Erzurumspor has lost pre-season friendly game against Foolad Sephan with 3:1 scoreline

- Goztepe has won pre-season friendly game against Altinordu with 2:0 scoreline

- Trabzonspor has won pre-season training camp against Triglav Kranj with 2:0 scoreline

- Galatasaray players Henri Onyekuru and Youness Belhanda has joined training session of team

- Besiktas are interested to transfer West Ham United player Javier Hernandez

- Zenit player Luis Neto manager Orcun Yucel has declined rumours that Galatasaray are interested to transfer player.

- Trabzonspor player Burak Yilmaz will have an operation due of ongoing injury

- Besiktas are interested to transfer West Ham United player Andy Carroll

- Galatasaray has made loan deal with Osmanlispor player Serdar Gurler for 1 year

- Trabzonspor player Oganyi Onazi has joined pre-season training camp of club

- Besiktas are interested to transfer Al Wassl player Fabio Lima

- Besiktas are interested to transfer Olympiakos player Karim Ansarifald

What happened in Turkish football today? 14/07/2018

Ferdi Kadioglu has arrived to Istanbul to have transfer negotiations with Fenerbahce.

Nec Nijmegen player Ferdi Kadioglu is reported to arrive to Istanbul yesterday to have meeting with Fenerbahce administration with a focus to transfer player and continue its investment for youth players.

Fenerbahce CEO Ali Koc prior and after winning election has stated that he would provide main focus towards youth players, and transfer of Berke Ozer and Baris Alici from Altinordu has been among his 1st steps. Right now he would aim to continue this with possible transfer of 19-year old Ferdi Kadioglu who has shown great performance at Dutch 2nd league team Nec Nijmegen and also been competing at Dutch youth national team showing very good performance. If this transfer would become successful it would be able not to get a good quality young player but also invest on future. Meanwhile, Damien Comolli without doubt carries on signing young players with high potential which seems to be his signature move in his career, quite opposite of Terraneo in fact. Negotiations between sides is expected to take place during this weekend and in upcoming days it would become clear if sides has made good deal.

Ferdi Kadioglu without doubt has good potential to become strong player and Fenerbahce manages to transfer him it would good way to make side stronger.

Luis Neto considers to move to Galatasaray.

Despite of the fact that transfer window so far has been pretty quiet in Turkey, there are coming out some transfer rumours with one of the interesting coming out today has been interest of Galatasaray to transfer Zenit player Luis Neto, who is loaned to Fenerbahce.

The rumour states that Luis Neto manager has send suggestion towards Galatasaray to transfer him as future of Neto at Fenerbahce is being right now uncertain and club is not doing any action so far to keep him. If that is true news, it means that Luis Neto finds Super League as hope to develop and has been impressed with how Galatasaray has performed during this season without doubt. Stating that, it needs to be remembered that so far Fenerbahce it could been stated didnt either decide to keep him or not so their is strong chance that he might even stay at Fenerbahce. It needs to be reminded that today has been especially quiet day regarding of transfer rumours and not many any signings reaches to such interesting rumour which is unclear how truthful their are even are.

As there is one and half month until end of the transfer window it would become clear in upcoming weeks how truthful is this rumour is.

Galatasaray are interested to transfer Bursaspor player Harun Tekin.

Another transfer rumour which has been taken around at the Turkish media today has been rumours that Galatasaray are interested to transfer Bursaspor player Harun Tekin.

It is known that Galatasaray currently is looking for strong and stable 2nd goalkeeper at its side which would be mainly used at Turkish Cup and strong alternative to Fernando Muslera when player would be injured. Without doubt and taking account financial situation of the team it does look like Harun Tekin would be great option. In fact, and even through without given names Bursaspor head coach Samet Aybaba did state that their are clubs which are interested to transfer Tekin with Galatasaray very likely to be one of them. Again and taking account of it being good player and also Turkish, Galatasaray would see him Tekin as good alternative and likely to aim to get him this summer.

How would this story as always would be seen as time goes but it is expected for Galatasaray to try to get a player at the end of summer.

In other news:

- Basaksehirspor has drawn against 1860 Munchen during pre-season friendly game with 0:0 scoreline

- Fenerbahce has appointed David Badia as academy coach

- Altinordu are interested to transfer Fenerbahce player Samed Karakoc

- SPAL are interested to transfer Antalyaspor player Johann Djourou

- Brighton and Watford are interested to transfer Kasimpasa player Trezeguet

- Trabzonspor administrator Ozkan Sumer has stated that club is not interested to transfer Bakary Kone and Nordin Amrabat.

- Besiktas are interested to transfer Juventus player Mario Mandzukic

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Altinordu player Erce Kardesler

What happened in Turkish football today? 13/07/2018

Galatasaray has terminated contract with its player Endogan Adili.

Galatasaray has terminated contract with its player Endogan Adili as the player wasnt able to fulfill high level performance since he has joined club in 2013 despite of having high number of expectation as he came to club at young age.

Endogan Adili has been mainly played at the youth side for most of his stay in Galatasaray and did manage to provide some high level performance but when it came to senior level he didnt show anything as he wasnt able to even play for most time during last season. As it became clear that player only takes space and salary being paid for training it was wise for a team to make decision to end career with him. It needs to be stated that Endogan Adili did have long period to prove himself to the team with training and youth level but he didnt manage to do that even through club to some extend could be blamed also for not providing high level development towards player. In either way, it could be stated that this factor of player leaving would be good news for both sides especially for Adili as he has opportunity to find new club and play more time in his new club.

Therefore, this transfer development should be able to open new doors for Endogan Adili while for Galatasaray it provides extra space and also financially it would be good for them.

Ankaragucu has transferred Johannes Hopf for 3 years.  

Ankaragucu has transferred Genclerbirligi player Johannes Hopf for 3 years as it would be able to strengten its goalkeeper position for next season since even through Hopf has played at team which has been relegated, he has great experience at Super League level.

Without doubt one of the most important areas which promoted teams to Super League would like to focus is to get goalkeeper, and it does look like Ankaragucu has found a great option for that position as Johannes Hopf has shown some great performance at the Super League games during previous season. It could be stated that its not great option as team has been relegated but it was difficult season for whole club and this failure could not be right to through just Hopf. What is crucial here is that team has good an experienced Super League goalkeeper who has shown great games at Genclerbirligi and would be aiming to continue to do so with Ankaragucu during next season.

Therefore, this has been a very good transfer for Ankara side for next season and it least would know that it would next season with good and strong goalkeeper.

Future of Domadoj Vida at Besiktas is unclear. 

Future of the Croatian National Team player Domadoj Vida at Besiktas is still unknown especially with his performance during World Cup 2018 as it is known that club is considering to sell him during this summer especially with his value raised from competition.

Even through Besiktas does admit that their are recieving high number of transfer fees it doesnt aim to sell its player during this summer unless its get to the point when it recieves an offer which it would be hard to refuse. However, Turkish sports media does seem to disagree with this perspective as it states that Besiktas are strongly aims to sell player and make some value from such transfer fee and get hence in much better financial situation. Meanwhile, it is known that strong interest towards Vida is coming from Premier League clubs which includes Liverpool and Everton among few. Talks are also about high transfer offers but Besiktas so far seems to be unsatisfied with those offers and aims to sell him with much more high fee due of his performance at World Cup.

Future of Domadoj Vida as been stated is unclear and Besiktas are expected to recieve much more transfer offers after World Cup especially if Croatia wins it. Time would show how Besiktas would react to them.

In other news:

- Fenerbahce has lost pre-season friendly game against Lausanne with 2:1 scoreline

- Galatasaray has won pre-season friendly game against FC Wil with 1:0 scoreline

- Konyaspor would play pre-season friendly games against Ajax(26/07) and NAC Breda(31/07

- Erzurumspor player Mert Nobre has resumed training session after recovering from injury

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Anderlecht player Kara Mbodj

- NECNejmigen player Ferdi Kadioglu has arrived to Istanbul to have one-on-one transfer negotiations with Fenerbahce

- MajidHosseini didnt arrive to Trabzon to sign deal with Trabzonspor due passport issues of the player. Club has made transfer deal with player

- Besiktas CEO Fikret Orman will have talk with its player Gunay Guvenc regarding future of the player at the team

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Bandirmaspor player Birhan Vatansever

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Villarreal player Enes Unal

- Trabzonspor head coach Unal Karaman: I am happy so far with preparation for next season. Everyone is doing their best for next season and so is transfer committee. We are currently looking to transfer defender and midfielder.We have around 5 absent player and we need to transfer

- Goztepe are interested to transfer Las Palmas player Ousmanne Tannane

- LokomotivMoscow player Manuel Fernandes has requested 4.5 million euro for transfer to Besiktas but club has put maximum value of deal as 3.5 million euro

- Galatasaray has offered Tarik Calik+Ahmet Calik + 3 million euro for Kasimpasa player Trezeguet

What happened in Turkish football today? 12/07/2018

Cuneyt Cakir has shown calm and authoritative performance during World Cup semis.

Turkish referee Cuneyt Cakir has managed to show another great performance during World Cup semi-final game between England and Croatia, even through some English fans were unhappy with his refereeing which is mainly described due of team losing game.

As always, Cuneyt Cakir has managed to keep his authority during game and has controlled game for almost whole time without much taking sides and has played an important role for game to be played at high tempo and creating high number of the chances. It could be clearly stated that he didnt take any sides and was following rule books including stopping game at additional time after Croatia as England was trying to start game in fast manner. It was visible that one Croatian player wasnt on field and hence game could not be started. There were some times at game when tension has been risen pretty a lot but it was mainly due of game play and Cakir in fact managed those incidents not to grow much. Surely, FIFA and UEFA would be satisfied with his performance and will unlikely consider to provide low points of his performance.

If Cuneyt Cakir continues this great performance it would be pretty soon that he would be appointed for final game in one of the major competition for certain.

VAR would make games more fair in Turkey.

Turkish Football Federation has finalised its decision that VAR system would be used during Super League, Super Cup and also Turkish Cup since quarter-final stage and should be able to reduce complaints which seems to be frequent in Turkish league.

As been observed during World Cup 2018, it could be stated that VAR system has been very successful without affecting much game play and also helping for game to become more fair and have impact into fair result. But it needs to be stated that VAR system officially has been used only on 5 games so far in Turkey which was at 1st league play-off games which helped Erzurumspor to reach to Super League. With players at this league being used to complain a lot their would not have that opportunity and if their do it would just look foolish and will not affect in good manner. It is known that Turkish referees had adaptatition period for this system for long time right now and hence are pretty familiar and technology would be able to affect positively to Turkish football and all talks of being cheated and losing points due of referees is likely to be completed if system is done in right way.

Therefore, Super League would be openning new chapter next season with VAR system to be introduced in this country and provide extra excitement to the league and cup.

Galatasaray are interested with Barcelona player Yerry Mina.

Galatasaray head coach Fatih Terim during interview today has announced that he is interested to transfer Barcelona and Colombia National Team player Yerry Mina to the team during this summer but its clear that this task could be very difficult.

With Fenerbahce also having interest with player, it is known that to transfer Yerry Mina could be difficult task as their are many interests towards him as he has shown very good performance at national team during World Cup in Russia. Even through being a defender, he has found many goals at tournament through corners and has played an important role to reach until last 16 where it lost to England at penalties. In fact, it could be stated that Mina has become one of the stars of this World Cup and due of this he gets high amount of interest as would been expected around globe with also Galatasaray now stating that it is interested with player.

However, as been stated task for Galatasaray could be very difficult as interest towards his is a  lot and he did raise his value during World Cup.

Results:
UEFA Europa League, 1st qualifying round, 1st round:
B36 Torshavn 0:0 OFK Titograd

In other news:

- Besiktas has drawn pre-season friendly game against Shakhtar Donetsk with 0:0 scoreline

- Bursaspor has lost pre-season friendly game against Balikesirspor with 1:0 scoreline.

- Konyaspor has won pre-season friendly game against CSM Politehnica Iasi with 2:0 scoreline

- Galatasaray: Our club has made loan deal with Everton player Henri Onyekuru with 800,000 euro fee. Player would recieve fixed 1,200,000 euro salary

- Eskisehirspor are interested to transfer Galatasaray player Tarik Camdal

- Galatasaray has made transfer deal with Stoke City player Badou Ndiaye

- Pre-season friendly game between Rizespor and Antalyaspor has ended with 2:2 scoreline

- CentralRefereeCommittee has provided seminar towards Bursaspor explaining VAR system

- Fenerbahce aims to extend loan of Tottenham Hotspur player Vincent Janssen for another year

- Besiktas player Ryan Babel has declined Flamengo transfer offer

- Kasimpasa has transferred Bucaspor player Ugurcan Yazgili

- Fenerbahce player Josef de Souza unborn daughter has passed away

- Kasimpasa player Trezeguet has started pre-season training camp as he joined from World Cup break

- Sivasspor has started its pre-season training camp in Bolu

- Flamengo has offered 7 million euro to Fenerbahce player Giuliano

- Fulham has offered 4.5 million euro for Besiktas player Fabri

- Konyaspor player Ertuglul Taskiran has joined pre-season training camp

- Trabzonspor are interested to loan Watford player Nordin Amrabat

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Barcelona player Yerry Mina.

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer defender during this summer transfer window.

- Kayserispor head coach Ertuglul Saglam: We dont plan to sell any players but would aim to sign 2 players during this summer

What happened in Turkish football today? 11/07/2018

Trezeguet has refused to sign contract with Slavia Prague after all deals were made.

Kasimpasa player Trezeguet has done very interesting and unusual action as he was close to put signature with Slavia Prague for 4 years as he refused to sign after all agreements has been done.

The story has come out during this morning as Kasimpasa reportedly has recieved 5 million euro release clause value of Trezeguet and has called him to come to Prague. It is reported that Trezeguet hence has went through medical checkup and has made deal for 4 year contract. However, it was reported that Egyptian player in pretty unclear manner as was coming to put his into signature to contract has stood up and didnt sign contract. It needs to be noted that Trezeguet did state during this summer transfer period that he would only sign with Galatasaray and hence this transfer news has been seen as surprise and does raise question if such action has been done to this word. However, if that is case what was actual reason to travel to Prague and provide this very interesting show. Possibly and if its case worrying, could be done purely to let people talk about him and raise his value and interest in the world.

This development would be seen as good news for Galatasaray but it would be seen that actions which were done by Trezeguet, of course if that what happened are unethical.

Basaksehirspor transfer Melbourne City player Yalcin Sozer for 2+1 years.

Basaksehirspor has transfer Melbourne City player Yalcin Sozer for 2+1 years and it would be expected that goalkeeper would be kept as 2nd goalkeeper behind Volkan Babacan for next season as club could have tough season.

Without doubt as Basaksehirspor would aim to carry on its title race position for next season, as it did last season it would need to have much more flexible squad which it would be to play around with likely also competing at Europa League also. Yalcin Sozer doesnt have reach career and hence its hard to state his performance with taking account that he was also loan to Erokspor. Therefore, it does look team does give investment to pretty unknown player and could have some hope and knowledge of his level of performance which media wasnt aware of. It needs to be stated that also economical situation could be also reason for such interesting transfer to take place. Time would show how successful and strong player which he is as he is likely to recieve most time at Turkish Cup.

This is very interesting investment in fact of Basaksehirspor and we would see how successful transfer it would be for team next season.

Ankaragucu transfers Yalcin Ayhan.

Ankaragucu has transferred one of the most experienced players at the Super League Yalcin Ayhan for 1+1 years as player has been playing for Basaksehirspor in recent years.

This transfer without doubt is very important to provide good performance at the Super League as Ankaragucu has reached to top season and has get player who is experienced at Super League and still can provide top level performance. Yalcin Ayhan as it is known its highly familiar with this league and in fact has been able to provide title race with a team which doesnt have high budget and supporters and that experience without doubt would turn into advantage for Ankaragucu as he would be able to perform at the team which doesnt have high expectations at the title race but club aims to show good performance and make its stay at the Super League for long term. Its true that Ayhan is getting towards end of his playing career but he still can show good performance.

Time would show how successful he would be but for now its looks very effective transfer for Ankaragucu without doubt.

Schedule:
UEFA Europa League, 1st qualifying round, 1st leg:
21:00 B36 Torshavn- OFK Titograd

In other news:

-Turkish referee Mete Kalkavan would referee Europa League 1st qualifying round 1st lege game between Buducnost and Trencin

- Besiktas assistant coaches Guti and Ilhan Mansiz started their job

- Galatasaray doctor Yener Ince has stated that injuries of Serdar Aziz and Serdar Gumus

- Trabzonspor player Jose Sosa has resumed training sessions after recovering from injury.

- Karabukspor CEO Mehmet Aytekin: News that Galatasaray are interested to transfer our player Caglar Sahin Akbaba doesnt represent truth.

- Besiktas player Alvaro Negredo has joined to pre-season training camp

- Genclerbirlgi has transferred Goztepe player Selcuk Sahin for 1+1 years.

- Fenerbahce players Berke Ozer and Baris Alici has attended to clubs pre-season training camp

- Altinordu would recieve 4 million euro for transfer of Berke Ozer and Baris Alici with 20% share from next transfer also

- Galatasaray would play pre-season friendly game against FC Will on 13th July

- Trabzonspor, Rizespor and Ankaragucu are interested to transfer Udinese player Maxi Lopez

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Liverpool player Lazar Markovic

- Basaksehirspor has transferred Melbourne City player Yaren Sozer for 2+1 years

- Besiktas are interested to transfer Leicester City player Bartosz Kapustka

- Fenerbahce player Volkan Demirel has agreed to recieve 1.5 million euro salary per season

- Cagliari and Sassuolo are interested to transfer Galatasaray player Lionel Carole

- Trabzonspor would play following pre-season friendly games: Triglav Kranj(15/07). Lokomotiva Zagreb(17/07), Spartak Moscow(20/07) and Al Duhail(23/07)

What happened in Turkish football today? 10/07/2018

Fenerbahce transferred Altinordu players Berke Elvan and Baris Alici.

Fenerbahce has made transfer deal with Altinordu players Berke Elvan and Baris Alici as it is believed the talks has been started during last week of Altinordu administrators with Fenerbahce ones where the deal would be able to satisfy all the bodies.

As it is known and been stated several times despite of Altinordu playing at 1st league it has been very good academy of youth players which it is capable to sell or loan to Super League clubs. Right now, Fenerbahce is believed to make very good deal with Altinordu with two of their potential future stars player Berke Elvan and Baris Alici. Fenerbahce hence would be able to get players with good future and backgroudn while players will have an opportunity to compete at higher level and show their skills to all Turkey and possibly to the Europe and hence make an important step in their career. Fenerbahce with new administration would be expected to provide much better focus towards its younger players and hence this could be seen an important development for Elvan and Alici.  Players need to still to be aware that club has high aims and might not recieve lots of playing time though during  next season.

Still, Fenerbahce has great an opportunity to do their part at building strong team for future and also provide service to whole Turkish football as both players could become stars in Turkey.

Cuneyt Cakir has been appointed for World Cup semi-final game between Croatia and England.

Turkish referee has been selected to World Cup 2018 semi-final game between Croatia and England after having good performance in previous 2 games.

Turkey's only representative at World Cup 2018, referee Cuneyt Cakir has been appointed to referee one of the crucial games of the whole tournament as he would be taking place at 2nd semi-final between Croatia and England as both sides did come out to the tournament but due of high number of suprises and other aspects, has shown great performance and overstated their status. England has reached to final of biggest tournament only in 1966 when it won it while Croatia never has reached to that stage and hence all teams would be coming out with an aim to write an important history. This factor could provide some importance of Cuneyt Cakir staying at the focus of the game even through we might be seeing mainly controlling game. Cakir so far has refereed 2 games at the tournament and has shown some good performance which without doubt has led him to get such an important tie without doubt. Cuneyt Cakir has proven once again to everyone in Turkey and around world that he is among best referees right now in the world for sure.

If Cakir keep carrying on such performance as referee he would be able final game of the major tournament for sure.

Galatasaray has made deal with Karabukspor player Caglar Soyuncu Akbaba.

It is reported that Galatasaray has made transfer deal with Karabukspor player Caglar Soyuncu Akbaba who despite of pretty poor performance of his club last season still was able to provide an important saves.

It is known that Galatasaray is looking for goalkeeper who would be taking place behind Fernando Muslera and aiming for Turkish ones. Without doubt, Caglar Soyuncu Akbaba is great option for this as with younger age and having good potentiality to some extend club would also invest to the future of the aim. It would be expected that with taking account that he moving to Galatasaray and chance to experience Champions League at least a bit he would not create much chance for being 2nd goalkeeper and still for sure would be aiming to prove himself to technical staff and likely during Turkish Cup games. Again this are only rumours right now but if this deal would be made it would be great opportunity for all bodies who are involved with this transfer.

As been stated if this deal is made Galatasaray would solve its 2nd goalkeeper issue without spending too much transfer fee also.

In other news:

- YeniMalatyaspor has won pre-season friendly game against CSM Iasi with 2:0 scoreline.

- Erzurumspor has transferred Anzhi Mahachkala player Arsen Khubulov for 1+1 years

- Basaksehirspor has transferred Koln player Milos Jojic for 3+1 years

- Goztepe has transferred Fausto Grillo for 2+1 years

- Ankaragucu has announced that it would be its home games at Afyon Zafer Stadium in Afyonkihisar as their stadium Eryaman Stadium construction continues

- Besiktas has won most respect sports award from Yildiz Teknik Universitesi statistical department during most respect awards

- Galatasaray administrator Abdurrahim Albayrak: We need to stay within UEFA regulations and would be focussing to make 2 more transfers deals. We are still interested with Trezeguet and continue negotiations with Kasimpasa

- Antalyaspor administrator Sefik Oz: We are currently having negotiations with 2 players and aim to announce them in short time. We have made deal with right back defender, he should come in 2 days time. We have strong squad and dont aim for many transfers

- Sivasspor would attend to Turkish Sports Journalist Union Cup of Ankara section which will take place between 1-3rd August

- TFF has announced that VAR system would be used during Super Cup game between Galatasaray and Akhisarspor on 5th August

- Trabzonspor player Burak Yilmaz has joined pre-season training camp after recovering from injury

- Fenerbahce has arrived to Genevre, Switzealand for pre-season training camp.

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Atletico Madrid player Kevin Gameiro

- Kayserispor CEO Erol Bedir has stated that club didnt recieve any transfer offers for their player Deniz Turuc

- Goztepe are interested to transfer Hull City player Abel Hernandez

- Alanyaspor are interested to transfer Metz player Emmanuel Riviere

- Trabzonspor has made transfer deal with Istiklal player Majid Hosseini

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Lazio player Stefan Radu

- Galatasaray has made loan deal of 600,000 euro with Everton player Henri Onyekuru with salary of 1,400,000 euro for 1-year loan

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Rosenborg players Jonathan Levi, Erik Botheim and Tromso player Runar Espjord

- Besiktas has made transfer deal witn Swansea City player Andre Ayew

What happened in Turkish football today? 09/07/2018

Fenerbahce has extended contract with its legendary player Volkan Demirel.

Fenerbahce has extended contract with its player Volkan Demirel after long-term negotiations which both sides had with player, CEO Ali Koc, sports director Damien Comolli and head coach Phillip Cocu. All of the bodies has made it clear how important the player to the side.

There were some rumous and talks that club would end contract with its legendary goalkeeper Volkan Demirel but without doubt there was explanation towards Comolli and Cocu about importance of Demirel and how its important for him to stay. Another aspect which crucially has played role is that Demirel has made it clear to the media and Comolli that he is willing to stay at team with any contract offer administration would provide to him and aims to move team forward in sense of working younger goalkeepers. This status of Volkan Demirel and also attitude without doubt has played an important role. Right now it could be said for sure that Volkan Demirel would be ending his footballing career at Fenerbahce as his playing career is coming towards end where he has showed his name as club legend.

This extension deal without doubt would make everyone happy and would keep fans satisfied as it has managed to keep its legendary player who would play an important role at field and outside of field during this season.

Alanyaspor has transferred Sydney FC player Bobo.

Alanyaspor has transferred Bobo for 2+1 years as player would be returning to Turkish Super League after having spell at Australian club Sydney FC and would be coming back with league which he is familiar with for sure.

With taking account that Alanyaspor does have not very strong aim and taking account that Bobo is not at prime days especially which he was during his Besiktas period, he still would be seen as an important addition to the team who has enough strengh to make team fight at the mid-table and not having scare from relegation zone taking account that Bobo would fulfill all expectations. Even through summer transfer window is still carries on and for sure their would be other additions, Bobo does have chance to become most eye-catching transfer of the side during this period. As been stated, his experience at the Super League beforehand could be strong enough to move him forward and provide a memorable performance. This is also good opportunity to show himself again and remind his capabilities to Turkish public.

So, even through Bobo is prime days are over as player he has good reasons to remind whole Turkey about himself and move Alanyaspor forward in next season.

Galatasaray has started loan negotiations with Everton player Henry Onyekuru.

Galatasaray has announced that it has started transfer negotiations with Everton player Henry Onyekuru who it has talks in Turkey right now and are expected to announce transfer in upcoming days for sure.

It needs to be stated that even through Onyekuru was at Everton last season he didnt manage to play single minute due of the factor that he didnt recieve British visa for next season and would have trouble to do for next season. This factor has led Galatasaray to provide loan offer especially taking account and naturally player wanted to play next season. It needs to be noted that Onyekuru is good player showing great performance at Anderlecht and hence would be able to move team forward with his performance as long he would get his playing performance without playing next season. This transfer has been done in pretty good manner behind closed back as player has arrived on morning to Istanbul for talks with Turkish sports media being unaware until this morning and hence has been in one sense very good transfer operation.

Henry Onyekuru therefore would have lots of expectations but it would become in upcoming days if he would be able to show great performance.

In other news:

- Super League 2018-19 season is going to start on 10-13th August and would get into mid-season break on 23rd December. 2nd half of season would start on 25-28th January with season ending on 26th May.

- Akhisarspor has extended contract with its player Serginho for 2+1 years

- Galatasaray would have administrative board meeting on 11th July.

- Turkish referee Cuneyt Cakir would be refereeing World Cup semi-final game between England and Croatia

- YeniMalatyaspor CEO Adil Gevrek: Of course we have some areas which we need to fill. We aim to make 3-4 more transfers. We having negotiations with some players those days

- Goztepe head coach Bayram Bektas: For me its important to come to this team. Its hard to make deal with Turkish players so we are looking now for foreigners. We need to make 2-3 more transfers this summer

- Besiktas has declined Liverpool offer of 18 million euro for Domadoj Vida and has set transfer fee as 36 million euro

- Fenerbahce head coach Phillip Cocu aims to use academy player Boris Rapaic at the main squad

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Barcelona player Rafinha and Marlion

- Galatasaray are interested to loan Arsenal players Konstanitonos Mavropolos, Ainsley Maitland-Niles, Krystian Bielik, Calum Chambers, , Chelsea players Nathan, Lucas Piazon, Jeremie Boga, Rob Holding, Matt Miazga and Cristian Cuevas

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Corinthians player Angel Romero.

- Valencia player Nani awaits transfer deal from Fenerbahce

What happened in Turkish football today? 08/07/2018

Erzurumspor transfers Trabzonspor player  Hugo Rodallega.

Erzurumspor has made transfer deal with Trabzonspor player Hugo Rodallega which would mean that newcomers has strengthened their squad in impressive manner for next season while Trabzonspor was able to sell one of its players which it was willing to sell.

This transfer deal needs to be stated could be seen as unexpected and surprising as among all clubs it would been expected for Erzurumspor to be least which would make deal with one of the eye-catching players of the league Hugo Rodallega. This transfer without doubt would be huge strength in attacking area for Erzurumspor which does have strong aims to provide some revisions for the squad to make it more competitive for Super League. This meanwhile has been also good news for Trabzonspor which is currently going through revision and aims to sell its highly paid players which without doubt Rodallega being one of them. In addition, Rodallega would be able to enjoy high amount of playing time with this deal as long he gets used to team straight away.

Meanwhile, Erzurumspor has declined its interest towards Hugo Rodallega but this could be done to reduce sudden raise of value of player and hence their still might be transfer announced in upcoming days.

Besiktas are satisfied with Domadoj Vida performance. 

Besiktas and Croatian National Team player Domadoj Vida performance during World Cup quarter-final game against Russian National Team would without doubt make Besiktas supporters and administration to be very happy.

Besiktas are among clubs which are currently going through revision of squad and also willing to sell number of players during this summer transfer window who are costing much and hoping since to do with high amount. Therefore, performance of Vida during yesterday game and also in general would lead for Besiktas CEO Fikret Orman pretty satisfied as it would have an opportunity to sell player with very good salary as number of clubs are expected to show strong interest towards player after tournament. There is an issue of post-game, long live Ukraine incident which made Russian supporters unhappy and FIFA regulations but with taking account that player has played in Dinamo Kiev for number of years this should be solved in good manner and should not provide much issue at the end. Right now Besiktas administration would expect for Vida to carry on this top performance at semi-final against England and wait for possible transfer offers.

Besiktas players has been most successful at World Cup meanwhile as Pepe, Vida and Quaresma has scored goals during tournament and hence all players which club send has made their mark in Russia.

Besiktas are interested with West Bromwich Albion player Nabil Chadri.

Also being proud of their players performance during World Cup, Besiktas has also been focussed into transferring Belgian player Nabil Chadri who has showed great performance so far at World Cup and did also play part for team to reach semi-final stage.

West Bromwich Albion defender has shown great performance at the World Cup with providing very positive game during all games and has moved team forward with his skills and has made his name more focussed during this tournament. With this performance it was naturally for Besiktas to get interested and does focus to loan player which has been tactic for Turkish clubs for last transfer windows due of economical and FFP conditions which team are at. However, as with all players it could be difficult task to convince Chadli as he would likely recieve some good offers with such performance and prices might go up into level which could provide some difficulty to make deal for Besiktas. Stating that it is currently reported that Besiktas has interest and time would show if it would make transfer deal with player and club.

If Besiktas manages to make transfer deal it would be great addition to the side and make them much more ready for next season and Europa League.

In other news:

- Besiktas has won pre-season friendly game against Gyirmot with 4:1 scoreline.

- Besiktas has announced 4 more pre-season friendly games, which are: Shakhtar Donetsk(12/07), CSKA Moscow(15/07), Reading (17/07) and Krasnodar(20/07

- Basaksehirspor has announced pre-season friendly games, as it will play against: 1860 Munchen(13/07), Ufa (17/07), Akhmat Grozny(20/07), SD Eibar(23/07), Stuttgart (30/07) and Bayer Leverkusen(02/08)

- Fenerbahce player Roberto Soldado had an operation due of his injury

- Trabzonspor CEO Ahmet Agaoglu: We had aimed to transfer 1-2 players but their value has been risen. We cant spend much money with 60 million euro debt. We planning to transfer 2 players next week. Burak Yilmaz is very important player for us

- Galatasaray administrator Abdurrahim Albayrak: We are in Zurich for 15 days training camp. We promise to be stronger ready for next season. We have very strong squad and aim to keep like that. We need to make transfers which is suitable for us.

- Goztepe CEO Mehmet Sepil: We have asked for extension of contract to our player Kadu who is currently going through recovery from injury. We are aiming to transfer 3 more players.

- Antalyaspor didnt manage to make transfer deal with Vasco de Gama player Ramon Motta

- Sivasspor has made transfer deal with Barcelona player Douglas

- Goztepe has made principal agreement with Velez Sarsfield player Fausto Grillo

- Flamengo are interested to transfer Fenerbahce player Giuliano

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Tottenham Hotspur players Moussa Sissoko and George-Kevin N'Koudou

- Besiktas has informed Lokomotiv Moscow player Manuel Fernandes that club would purchase him if he gets transfer fee at his hands and would accept not high salary.

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Leicester City player Ahmed Musa