What happened in Turkish football today? 30/03/2019

Fenerbahce CEO Ali Koc is getting prepared for campaign to call everyone connected to club to provide some aid.

Fenerbahce CEO Ali Koc and his administrative team are currently working on releasing their plan for company which would be able to provide an important amount of cash to the club to prevent risk of being banned from European competitions next seasons.

It is known and has been stated very frequently by Fenerbahce CEO Ali Koc that club has very high amount of debt which has been left mainly from previous administration and hence urgently needs to find some cash. With providing some cash from own pocked and also from companies connected to Koc holding, Koc would lead campaign where he would be asking mainly from businessman and party from team supporters to provide some cash for club to get through this difficult period. It is expected that official announcement of this campaign would be starting on 4th April where he would have press conference making clear what would be aims for this campaign and in what ways fans could provide their charities to the club.

It is known that club needs to find this amount of cash at the end of the season as it run risks of getting ban from European competitions and might now be attending to the competition for 1 year.

Porto are interested to transfer Ricardo Quaresma.

Porto has set an eye to transfer Besiktas player Ricardo Quaresma during summer transfer window and is reported to provide transfer offer to Istanbul giant as an exchange with its own player Sergio Oliviera.

Both of those players are players which their own clubs are having aims to sell during summer transfer window and in return could strength their squad. However, in same time Besiktas which urgently needs some cash in its hand might not be showing too much interest with such offer and would be looking for transfer fee and for good prices for Ricardo Quaresma. An issue which is states that Porto regardless how much wants to transfer Quaresma, Besiktas could show some reluctance to sell him for low amount and hence it would be interesting how negotiations between clubs would carry on in this period until and during summer transfer window. However, it would be reasonably to expect that interst towards Quaresma could carry on taking place from Porto.

As always, our page would follow latest developments regarding this issue and would see what would be future of Quaresma.

Fenerbahce are interested to loan Villarreal player Enes Unal.

One of the interesting transfer rumours which is being discussed by Turkish media right now are being talks about possibility of Fenerbahce loaning Villarreal player Enes Unal for next season.

It is known that Villarreal could be considering to loan Unal for next season and hence could lead for sides to have some talks regarding of this issue when summer would be coming up but it also needs to state that this is rumour which wasnt confirmed by any sides. Meanwhile, it is also known that Unal is happy with his performance in the Europe and would be reluctant to join Fenerbahce or any other European club due of this as he has for sure some aims for European right now as a player he has some potential. This news as been mentioned is being only rumour and in our view for this deal to be made chances could be low even if Fenerbahce does show some significant interest.

Time would show if this interest is still strong but it could be said that it would make Fenerbahce current squad for next season if such talks would turn into reality during summer transfer window.

In other news:

- TFF has announced referees of Turkish Cup semi-final 1st leg games:
-2nd April: Galatasaray-Yeni Malatyaspor: Halil Umut Meler
-3rd April: Umraniyespor-Akhisarspor: Abdulkadir Bitigen

- Trabzonspor has won friendly game against 1431 Trabzon with 2:1 scoreline.

- Basaksehirspor has lost friendly game against Pendikspor with 2:1 scoreline.

- Kayserispor has lost friendly game against Adana Demirspor with 2:1 scoreline. Meanwhile, Asamoah Gyan has become injured during game.

- Alanyaspor has won training game agianst its youth side with 7:1 scoreline.

- Trabzonspor CEO Ahmet Agaoglu has stated that club would use an option to transfer Caleb Ekuban at end of the season who is currently loaned from Cardiff City.

- Galatasaray players Kostas Mitroglou and Mbiaye Diagne have attended today's training session.

- Trabzonspor player Filip Novak recovery has been started by club.

- Fenerbahce player Mathieu Valbuena and Mehmet Topal are expected to start at Super League 27th week game against Ankaragucu.

- Goztepe player Adama Traore wants to extend his contract with his team.

- Besiktas has made transfer deal with Giresunspor player Ozan Can Kokcu.

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Boca Juniors player Nahitan Nandez.

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer St.Truiden player Yohan Boli.

What happened in Turkish football today? 29/03/2019

Galatasaray has fulfilled its FFP rules for 31st March.

Galatasaray has made statement today stating that it has provided 75 million euro payments to its players and has also recieved from each player document stating that their is no debt from them towards players and hence has fulfilled its UEFA FFP guidelines.

According to FFP rules, Galatasaray needed to provide all payments towards its players until 31st March to get UEFA licence and according to some media news, it has provided all payments to foreign players and has provided section of payment towards Turkish players. Afterwards, those players has signed document stating that club doesnt have any debts towards them including ones who didnt get whole payment and has shown goodwill. Without doubt, Galatasaray has got high amount of calmness for this development as it has got through important barrier with UEFA. It still needs to find ways to pay some payments until 31st May and it became clear that club has got some bank credits and would also aim to solve those issues on that day.

Galatasaray has made an important task and right now made an important step for solving at short notice UEFA FFP issue and not having scare of not attending to Europe next season.

Volkan Demirel considers to end his career at the end of the season.

It became clear that Fenerbahce goalkeeper Volkan Demirel would consider to end his footballing career at the end of the season and would be moved to goalkeeper position at the club.

Volkan Demirel during his period at Fenerbahce has become one of the main legends of the team for 21st century for sure and has become one of the most recognised names. However, during his recurring age his quality has recieved high amount of criticism in recent years which has led for him to lose also his role of being leading goalkeeper at the country and also for club recently looking for replacement. It became now clear that Volkan Demirel would be  considering to end his career and now provide his service for the team at focussing to goalkeeper coach position, providing preparation for his replacements for next season and carry on working with them. In our view, Volkan Demirel has been provided at great timing and with this he would be able to stay at team and carry on providing his service to the team.

If he would end his career at the end of the season, he would be leaving as legend for sure and would recieve lots of respect from goalkeepers he would be looking as training staff.

Eintracht Frankfurt and Olympiakos are interested to transfer Lorius Karius.

It became clear that Eintracht Frankfurt and Olympiakos are having interest to transfer Besiktas-loaned player Lorius Karius, which could be great news for Besiktas as it looks ways how to end 2-year loan contract with Karius.

As it is know, Karius has got high amount of criticism from team, pundits and also supporters due of not providing great performance at the team and right now side is trying to figure out how to end loan deal which it has signed with Liverpool last summer as it seems to be difficult. However, rumours that Olympiakos and Eintracht Frankfurt are considering to transfer player would provide high amount of relief but it needs to be remembered that Liverpool naturally would be one who would negotiations and hence Besiktas will have difficulty to control this talks and only way is that it can make even more clear that Karius will not be at plans of the side for next season. It is also known that Karius has complained to FIFA for not recieving salary from Besiktas, which also would make a role for final decision from Liverpool.

It does look like that if those transfer talks are real that Liverpool would consider to transfer player as this loan deal with Besiktas does have some issues right now.

In other news:

- YeniMalatyaspor has drawn friendly game against FC IBV with 1:1 scoreline.

- Antalyaspor has won friendly game against Rizespor with 3:1 scoreline.

- SuperLeague clubs in total has paid 4,434,018,98 euro to agents.

- Galatasaray has started recovery of its player Mbiaye Diagne

- Besiktas has paid in total of 5 million euro payments towards its players and has ended all debts towards its players.

- Konyaspor player Moryke Fofana and Abdou Razock Traore have resumed training session after returning from international duty.

- Galatasaray player Younes Belhanda has missed his plane as he was returning from international duty. He is now looking for new ticket.

- Galatasaray is going to get 170 million TL credit from banks to provide payments until 31st May.

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Villarreal player Enes Unal.

- Turkish referee Cuneyt Cakir will referee Saudi Arabic Pro League game between Al Hilal and Al Nassr.

- Besiktas considers to raised salary of its player Dorukhan Tokoz from 350,000 euro to 1,000,000 euro.

- Olympiakos has made statement that it didnt recieve any transfer offers from Fenerbahce for Konstantinos Fortounis.

- Rizespor CEO Hasan Kartal has stated that club aim is to carry on with Okan Buruk as head coach next season.

- Besiktas are interested to transfer Atletico Madrid player Bernard Mensah.

- EintrachtFrankfurt and Stuttgart are interested to transfer Fenerbahce player Miha Zajc.

- Trabzonspor are interested to transfer Dunajska Streda player Zsolt Kalmar.

- Fenerbahce player Eljif Elmas doesnt consider to leave team during summer transfer window.

- Ajax and Brighton are interested to transfer Besiktas player Oguzhan Ozyakup.

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Atalanta player Arkadiusz Reca.

- Galatasaray administrator Abdurrahim Albayrak had one-on-one transfer negotiations with Akhisarspor player Fatih Ozturk.

- Flamengo has made principal agreement with its player Adriano.

What happened in Turkish football today? 28/03/2019

Injuries once again leave Galatasaray without attackers.

Galatasaray player Mbiaye Diagne has become injured during international friendly game between Senegal and Mali and have also joined another player Kostas Mitroglou who has also become injured during his international duty.

With Galatasaray entering to last 8 weeks period at the Super League and also playing semi-final games,it is bad news for team to be without with its attackers and this factor could provide some issues for the side as side cant currently lose any games which are left at this season. Seriousness of injuries for  both players are not specifically known, as both players didnt go yet through medical control of Galatasaray and there is hope, especially with Mitroglou, that he would be ready for Super League 27th week game against Yeni Malatyaspor and certainly for following derby game against Fenerbahce. Quite naturally technical staff and fans would be accepting that this injury news will not be very serious and will not affect too much to their title race which their having directly with Basaksehirspor who are 6 points ahead of them.

Its crucial right now, what outcome would medical checkups take place at Galatasaray when players come from their international duties.

Tolga Zengin considers to end his footballing career.

Besiktas player Tolga Zengin who is currently is taken out from squad due of his latest behaviour, does consider to call for retirement from footballing career at the end of the season.

Tolga Zengin did play an important role at the recent success of the team but also is known to make some unexpected mistakes in some periods of time which led for team to look for strong alternatives such as Fabri and right now Lorius Karius. It is been reported that he was taken from squad from team due of his actions which has been mainly for putting his ego into high note and showing some disrespectful actions during his recent performance at Besiktas. With getting to 35 years old, which is not very old age actually for goalkeeper, Tolga Zengin is rumoured to be considering end his footballing career likely seeing his career to be over and that could be case as it is hard for him for recent events physically and mentally to get into best form at least for short period of time.

Tolga Zengin behaviour and performance did push himself to be not performing at similar level which he used to do in previous season and it could be seen normal for his decision to end his footballing career.

Some parts at Galatasaray are worried that administrative issue might affect to team performance.

Crises of not approving performance of Galatasaray CEO Mustafa Cengiz, is also feared that would provide a negative impact towards team performance especially at title race.

It is reported that Galatasaray head coach Fatih Terim and whole technical staff are trying their best for team not to consider about this uncertainty at the administrative part but their is fear that some players might affected by it. To some extend, it is questionable actually how much damage it might done as this is administrative part while players need to focus mainly into field and if their do performance their best, in this turn it should be able to carry on providing best performance without worrying about events outside of football field. This fear that it might have some consequences to side could be hence created by media.

When Galatasaray would start playing their games it would become clear how much does this affect to team performance for the team.

In other news:

- Fenerbahce has won friendly game against Eskisehirspor with 4:0 scoreline.

- Trabzonspor player Filip Novak has become injured during international friendly game between Czech Republic and Brasil

- Galatasaray has sent warning to Fenerbahce player Serdar Aziz for not paying 2.3 million euro compensation to his old club for terminating contract.

- Besiktas considers to ask to loan Torino player Adem Ljajic for 1 more year.

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Roma player Maxime Gonalons.

- Besiktas has connected to British law firm to find ways how to terminate loan deal with Liverpool player Lorius Karius.

- Besiktas considers to offer Domadoj Vida in return of Everton player Cenk Tosun.

- YeniMalatyaspor aims to get transfer fee for Baris Alici from Fenerbahce.

- AtleticoMadrid are interested to transfer Fenerbahce player Berke Ozer.

- Rizespor considers to extend contract with its player Aatif Chachehouhue.

What happened in Turkish football today? 27/03/2019

Turkish National Team has provided some positive view after 1st Euro 2020 qualifiers games.

Turkish National Team has started its Euro 2020 qualifiers at high note with beating Albania and Moldova at both games finding 8 goals and not conceding any goals and despite of pretty weak opponents, it has shown as side huge improvement compare to previous periods.

One of the advantages of starting qualification campaign with, to all respect towards them, weaker opponents is an opportunity to get high motivation prior to crucial games and also set its aims into more clearer manner. Without doubt this two wins by itself will not be enough to get to Euro 2020 but it would allow to go to France and Iceland in much more higher mood and confidence. More importantly Turkey will not be looking behind of losing crucial points against those kind of opponents. Apart of winning those two games, Turkey has provided similar performance which was seen from Besiktas head coach Senol Gunes best performance especially during last season Champions League. As been mentioned at the blog entry yesterday, Turkey would still come out against France as underdog quite naturally but those games has shown that Turkey can fight for point at home ground on June or at least provide good performance.

As been mentioned, maybe this wins will not provide Euro 2020 qualification but it has provided positive motivation and from spectators strong belief for future of this side.

Besiktas are interested to transfer Altinordu player Erce Kardesler.

It became clear that Besiktas are having strong interest with Altinordu young goalkeeper Erce Kardesler as it aims to solve one of its weakest areas right now goalkeeper during summer transfer window.

With Tolga Zengin not being at squad and with his recent behaviour which provides some worrying image at the team and also unstable performance of Lorius Karius, goalkeeper position without doubt has become one of the main areas of transfer business for Besiktas during summer. With Erce Kardesler being among young developments of Turkish football factory, Altinordu, with having strong potential it should be seen quite natural that Besiktas are having such a strong interest towards player for sure. With Altinordu aiming to make also deal to make sure that it would get share for next transfer would lead side to looking forward for such a transfer. Once again, as it been stated at our blog in recent posts, this are only rumours and hence we would keep an eye on this development.

Stating that, if Erce Kardesler does move to Besiktas it would be an important move for him and for his career without doubt.

Fiorentina has offered 15 million euro for Eljif Elmas.

It became clear that Fiorentina are having an interest to transfer Fenerbahce player Eljif Elmas with also offering for player 15 million euro but his club are not interested to sell for that price.

Elmas has been among players which European clubs has been taken an eye as he arleady shows great performance and is seen as one of the most potential stars of football in the future. Without doubt during recent period Eljif Elmas has been among biggest investments of Fenerbahce as club and it does have strong aims for him and for sure, with taking account economical issue at the team, would consider to sell him to highest bidder for sure. It would be expected that more clubs would carry on showing an interest towards player during summer transfer window for sure. It is rumoured that Fenerbahce would consider to sell player not less than 20 million euro and time would show if Fiorentina would raise this offer.

Meanwhile, it is also reported that Lazio are having interest with Eljif Elmas and more to come for sure until and during summer transfer window very likely.

In other news:

- GilletteMilliyetYearlySportsAwards winners from football world are being:
- Breakthrough athlete: Stuttgart player Ozan Kabak
- HDI Sigorta Special Award: Basaksehirspor player Mert Gunok
- Altinyildiz Classics Special Award: Besiktas player Ricardo Quaresma
- Player of the year: Roma player Cengiz Under

- Konyaspor has won friendly game against Adanaspor with 2:1 scoreline.

- Antalyaspor will play friendly game against Rizespor on 29th March.

- Goztepe has lost friendly game to Denizlispor with 1:0 scoreline.

- Galatasaray are expecting to start with Emre Tasdemir during Turkish Cup sem-final 1st leg game against Yeni Malatyaspor and during Super League 27th week against same opponent.

- Trabzonspor are expects to pay 55 million euro debt to players on 29th March, which is 80 million euro from total which needs to be paid.

- Besiktas player Atiba Hutchinson after retirement from football career expects to motivate players and build bridges between them and administrators, attend to draws at UEFA competitions and do some scouting but will not attend at negotiations.

- Sevilla are interested to transfer Trabzonspor player Abdulkadir Omur and Yusuf Yazici.

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Racing Club player Ricardo Centurion.

- Genoa considers to offer 6 million euro for Besiktas player Dorukhan Tokoz.

- EintrachtFrankfurt considers to offer 15 million euro for Trabzonspor player Abdulkadir Omur.

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Everton player Kevin Mirallas.

- Schalke04 and Bayer Leverkusen are interested to transfer Besiktas player Shinji Kagawa.

- Fenerbahce has started transfer negotiations with Olympiakos player Konstantinos Fortounis.

- Nantes are interested to transfer Besiktas player Isimat Mirin.

What happened in Turkish football today? 26/03/2019

Turkish National Team has shown effective attacking game against Moldova.

Turkish National Team has managed to show pretty confident and attacking game during Euro 2020 qualifiers Group H 2nd week game against Moldova which led them to get win with 4:0 scoreline.

It should be stated that even through Turkish National Team has always been seen as favourite to win game, it has shown strong improvement as the side with Senol Gunes with providing much more effective game at the front which could be seen from finding those 4 goals. It needs to be noted that Moldova main focus for the game has been to show defensive game which it managed to do so until 24th minute when Hasan Ali Kaldirim has scored his 1st goal. But with Turkey getting much more motivated and Moldova losing control of the game, has led for Turkey to dominate this game even more with scoring 3 more goals and even being close to score even more. It should be stated that this performance did remind Senol Gunes's best period of Besiktas as it has been focussed an attacking strong game. Now many pundits in country to state that 4 points from Iceland could be enough but its important for national team to focus into each game with an aim to win it because this mindset, regardless how logically it sounds, is very dangerous and can provided unwanted result.

It is true that Turkey did play against weaker sides during those 1st two games but it has provided strong potential for future, and even if its side which are not favourites for France game, it could provide good attacking game against them.

Konyaspor player Omer Ali Sahiner will not be able to play for 3-4 weeks.

One of the important Konyaspor players Omer Ali Sahiner has been reported to be injured for 3-4 weeks and would mean that when league would be resumed after next week, will not be able to take place for 3 weeks important games.

Even through Konyaspor are currently located at close to the top 4 position its performance is not being very good during recent weeks and still has scare of getting closer to drop zone at the standings. With such important games without doubt coming up for the side, it would be missing an important player at the squad and without doubt Konyaspor head coach Aykut Kocaman would have an opportunity to solve this issue at the team during this break which also includes this weekend local elections break. Playing an important midfielder session this injury could without doubt effect transformation at that section and would lead for other players to have more focus into their game.

As has been stated, Aykut Kocaman role right now would be find way how to solve this issue without having too much losses during that period in next games.

Ajax are interested to transfer Kayserispor player Deniz Turuc. 

Among of the eye-catching transfer rumours at today Turkish sports media has been talks that Ajax are having an interest to transfer Kayserispor player Deniz Turuc.

With having some roots to Holland, Turkish National Team and Kayserispor player Deniz Turuc is rumoured to be among targets of Ajax with playing expectfully wanting to join team. One of the main reasons and aspects is seen that Ajax current head coach has worked with Turuc during their both stay at Go Ahead Eagles and has been very satisfied with his performance for sure which has led him to show that interest towards player. With Deniz Turuc showing good performance at Kayserispor and also during this Euro 2020 qualfiiers and as player showing raise of performance, ti would be good option for him to join Ajax which among coming up to its glory days of mid-90's, is also been a good place for players to develop due of its important academical status it has. If that rumour is true Deniz Turuc could make an important step in his career.

Once again, there is still long time until mid-season transfer window and our blog would follow this story as it would develop prior to and during transfer window.

In other news:

- Kasimpasa has drawn friendly game against Boluspor with 1:1 scoreline.

- Ankaragucu has lost friendly game against Genclerbirligi with 1:0 scoreline.

- Alanyaspor has won friendly game against Altyn Asyr with 2:1 scoreline.

- YeniMalatyaspor will play friendly game against FC IBV on 29th March.

- Fenerbahce has signed professional contracts with its academy players Batin Ozdemir and Yusuf Mert Tunc

- DursunOzbek is not interested to announce his CEO candidacy for Galatasaray CEO election.

- Galatasaray head coach Fatih Terim will not sign any contract with club until new CEO will be elected.

- Galatasaray player Mbiaye Diagne has become injured during Senegal and Mali game.

- Rizespor consider to get transfer fee of its player Azubuike from Pyramids.

- Fenerbahce are having transfer negotiations with Everton for Yerry Mina.

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Levadia Tallinn player Marcelin Gando.

What happened in Turkish football today? 25/03/2019

Turkish National Team has shown good attacking game against Moldova. 

Turkish National Team has got a comfortable win against Moldovian National Team with 4:0 scoreline with providing strong and confident performance without allowing Moldova to get into many chances and have shown pretty positive football.

It needs to noted of course that quality of the teams is being huge and hence 4:0 scoreline against such an opponent could not be seen as huge deal but it needs to be remembered that for long time Turkey didnt show such an attacking and positive game. Our blog has been stated during recent games that it was important for Turkey to provide its own game and show some respect to its opponents during previous 2 games and it has managed to do just that which led team to get such a crucial wins for getting ticket to Euro 2020. It needs to be also remembered that performance of the supporters which has provided an incredible push forward and has played an important role for such comfortable win at the end of the day. Another aspect has been for Turkey to get this 6 points without conceding any goals including today against Moldova. Among such a comfortable win it was also crucial to show an attacking game which was similar to Besiktas version with Senol Gunes has been familiar today's game.Turkey would now look forward in very confident manner to June games against France and Iceland which would be one of main games in this group.

Moldova in their hand did provide a view as expected to be much lower level, but showing respect to them it did provide a view of providing positive game and was seeking to carry on playing game while losing game 3:0 and 4:0. Moldova did provide that players has come to play game but quality has played a role at game.

Turkey has ended its, what could be referred as easy game, without disrepspecting its opponents in confident manner and scoreline and would now look forward for France and Iceland games at much better mental condiiton.

Galatasaray current administration would go to court regarding of financial meeting decision.

Galatasaray CEO Mustafa Cengiz has stated during his pretty short press conference that club would go to court regarding of decision by club members to not approve his CEO and administration performance for 2nd half of 2018.

During annual financial meeting of the club, high amount of Galatasaray members didnt approve performance of CEO Mustafa Cengiz and has called for an early election which without doubt has led for shocking reaction and has felt treated unwell regarding they very hard-working performance and effort their showed during this period. According to this actions the club would need to call for election until 23rd April. An issue is that court is likely not to make final decision until that date, that this CEO regardless how reluctant it would be to do, would need to call for CEO election during this 1 month period. Needless to say, of course those events are not good signs and shows that their huge misunderstandings taking place at club behind scenes.

Galatasaray as whole and specifically this administration would have some critical dates until end of the season at least and this scandal could not come in better time when team is showing strong title race.

Besiktas CEO Fikret Orman has stated that Hutchinson would be at technical staff after he retires. 

Besiktas CEO Fikret Orman has stated that when its player Atiba Hutchinson would retire from his footballing career, which expects to be at the end of the season, he would be joining a technical staff.

Talks about Atiba Hutchinson planning to end his footballing career at the end of the season is being done a lot on this days and it would be more curious if it would be announced at the end of the season and would be his future especially within team. Fikret Orman has made an announcement today that he would be expecting and would like to see Atiba among technical staff after that announcement, which as it is known would be also among aspects which Atiba is considering himself. During last seasons, Hutchinson has played an important role at his role in Besiktas especially midfield area and played an important role for 2 league titles after each other and memorable performance at Champions League. Hence this trust and respect between him and club, including fans is strongly understandably and would seen natural to continue even after he ends his career.

Atiba Hutchinson would be expected hence to take place with Guti administration if he would get head coach position after season would be over.

Results:
UEFA Euro 2020 qualifiers, Group H, 2nd week:
Turkey 4:0 Moldova
France 4:0 Iceland
Andorra 0:3 Albania

In other news:

- Turkish referee Halil Umut Merel have been appointed to referee Euro 2020 qualifiers between Romania and Faroe Islands.

- Fenerbahce will play friendly game against Eskisehirspor on 28th March.

- Ankaragucu will play friendly game against Genclerbirligi on 26th March.

- Kayserispor will play friendly game against Adana Demirspor on 30th March.

- WerderBremen player Nuri Sahin has stated that he plans to open football youth academy in Turkey.

- Duygun Yarsuvat, Unal Aysal, Esref Hamamcioglu, Faruk Suren, Turgay Kiran, Fatih Terim, Ozan Korkut, Dursun Ozbek, Adnan Ozturk and Adnan Polat are among names which could announce Galatasaray CEO candidacy.

- Sevilla are interested to transfer Stuttgart player Ozan Kabak.

- Fenerbahce has declined transfer offer of Cardiff City for Eljif Elmas.

- Besiktas are interested to transfer Dinamo Zagreb player Adjin Hasic.

- Trabzonspor players Joao Pereira and Abdulkadir Omur are expected to be recovered from injury until Super League 27th week game against Antalyaspor.

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer DC United player Luciano Acosta.

- Besiktas considers to appoints Ilhan Mansiz as its assistant coach.

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Mlada Boreslav player Nikolay Komlichenko

- Besiktas considers to make its player Burak Yilmaz as captain of the team.

- Besiktas are interested to transfer Celta Vigo player Okay Yokuslu.

What happened in Turkish football today? 24/03/2019

Turkey needs to provide focussing game to get comfortable win against Moldova.

Turkish National Team has shown good start of the Euro 2020 qualifiers with a win against Andorra, and would now aim to continue this positive performance against Moldova at Eskisehir where it would be coming out as strong favourite.

Even through quality of game against Andorra could be argued, it would be seen that Turkey did get new focus and confidence with an appointment of Senol Gunes which could be seen from players reaction. As it is know, Turkey are known to get surprising and unexpected results against opponents like Moldova but with playing at home and also gaining right set of focus it is expected to provide good performance. It is just important for Turkey to be aware that Moldova are weakest link at the group and even draw could provide lots of negative impact for rest of the group stage games so it should be aimed and focussed to get a good result with providing strong attacking game which could come with strong support from supporters at home ground.

The main keys of games during this games is to play its own game and provide focus and respect to opponents all time if it doesnt want to get surprising outcome at the end.

Galatasaray members didnt approve Mustafa Cengiz CEO performance.

In pretty surprising matter, Galatasaray members during voting of acceptance of club CEO Mustafa Cengiz performance as CEO for 2nd half of 2018 wasnt approved by them which means that club would go into CEO election without Cengiz being candidate due of rules of club.

According to guidelines, current administration needs to call for CEO election within a month but it can happen as late as after season but it is expected and rumoured that Cengiz would go into court for this decision, as they are been very surprised for this outcome and dont think that their would work has been treated in fair way. Meanwhile, there is strong arguments stating that his rule wasnt approved by main Galatasaray high school educated members as Cengiz didnt been graduated from there. But this rumour is also questionable as it is known that high amount of those educated has voted for him during CEO election last year. It needs to be reminded that issues such as with UEFA due of FFP, transfer politics, issues during Fenerbahce game and its outcome wasnt perfectly managed by Galatasaray and this without doubt could played an important role for some members losing trust with Mustafa Cengiz.

During 1 month, Galatasaray administration would need to announce new CEO election date and it would be important how current administration would act in this process including if it would be going to court.

Reaction of Fatih Terim after Mustafa Cengiz incident is among big questions at club.

With there being high amount of talks in recent period about Galatasaray head coach Fatih Terim having set an eye for club CEO position in near future, with CEO election coming up in near future has led for talks that Terim would run for this position.

Taking account that Mustafa Cengiz administration has been one which made deal with Fatih Terim for head coach position, there would be talks about his future at the team as his contract would be ending at the end of the season. Current administration did make deal for 5-year extension but its not been signed officially and hence could not be taking account with current atmosphere. Whoever would come us as new CEO would certainly likely to work with Fatih Terim as his legend of club but if he would run for that position himself than quite naturally he would resign from his position. Even through Terim didnt state any official statements that he wants CEO position and quite opposite has declined it, it would be still be given high attention regarding his reactions and actions in this period.

Fatih Terim future or more presicely his role at the future of club is related how he would react to this events at club but our view that he would stay as head coach at least for next season.

Schedule:
UEFA Euro 2020 qualifiers, Group H, 2nd week:
20:00 Turkey - Moldova
22:45 France - Iceland
22:45 Andorra - Albania

In other news:

- Galatasaray has won friendly game with 3:2 scoreline against Umraniyespor.

- Akhisarspor has forgiven its player Fatih Ozturk who would rejoin training sessions also.

- Kayserispor has terminated contract with its player Oguzhan Berber.

- Galatasaray player Kostas Mitroglou has become injured during Euro 2020 qualifiers between Greece and Liechtenstein.

- Kayserispor player Bernard Mensah will not be able to play for 6 weeks due of injury.

- RiverPlate are interested to transfer Galatasaray player Fernando Muslera.

- Besiktas are interested to transfer Sion player Bastian Toma.

- Trabzonspor are interested to transfer Antalyaspor player Nazim Sangare.

- Fenerbahce considers to extend contract of its player Nabil Dirar and even offer captaincy.

- Galatasaray player Henry Onyekuru wants to stay at club for next season also.

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Rizespor player Vedat Muriqi.

- Besiktas considers to appoint its player Atiba Hutchinson as assistant coach for next season.

- Trabzonspor aims to extend contract of its player Hugo Rodallega and get transfer fee of its loaned player Caleb Ekuban from Leeds United.

- Besiktas are interested to transfer Cerezo Osaka player Hiroshi Kiyotake.

- Galatasaray consider to offer 1+1 year extension contract to its player Selcuk Inan.

- DeportivoLaCoruna player Raul Albentosa has stated that he would like to join Fenerbahce during summer transfer window.

What happened in Turkish football today? 23/03/2019

Turkish National Team had good start for Euro 2020 qualifiers.

Turkish National Team has started Euro 2020 qualifiers in perfect manner as it has managed to beat Albania with 2:0 scoreline even through it didnt provide perfect game but has shown great convertency of chances as it has scored 2 goals from 3 chances.

As it is known, it is very important to start this campaign with a win since this group could be pretty tough for Turkey as it contain World Cup champions France and also Iceland and Albania which normally can create some issues. Being lucky that Albania wasnt providing their best performance during game, Turkey has shown pretty economical performance and didnt had provided high tempo which would be expected from them but still it has used its chances as mentioned in good manner. With taking account that Turkey in recent years are known to lose in qualifiers to weaker opponents and also not start qualifiers lately at high note it was important to get this win. With Burak Yilmaz scoring goal and also having ruling out for offside, has shown that he would be key player at national team and aims to find many goals.

Next stop for Turkey would be Moldova as it would also be aiming for win at home and could be approaching to games against France and Iceland in June with high motivation and confidence for sure.

CAS would go through UEFA decision to go through against FFP deal with Galatasaray.

CAS has approved Galatasaray complaint towards UEFA who has wanted to revise FFP deal made between sides as Galatasaray has complained but this revision is unexpectably. Galatasaray still got good news since their wasnt much expectation that CAS would be expecting this case.

Even through it still unclear what would be final decision, it is arleady important for factor that CAS would be going through this issue and would gain information from UEFA. This could be seen as an important gain for Galatasaray CEO Mustafa Cengiz especially taking account that their is yearly financial meeting of the club taking place today. Still, UEFA is expected would be giving its defence to CAS which could be stronger one and if it wins case it could have some issues between UEFA and Galatasaray in future. But as been mentioned, when this issue was discussed last year in our blog that Galatasaray did right think to go after this issue if it finds some things to be done wrongly. Now Galatasaray would certainly expect for decision to be done on their favour from CAS.

CAS as always would take mediocre approach and listen both sides so Galatasaray still needs to do many things in near future.

Galatasaray considers to loan its player Yunus Akgun to Giresunspor. 

Galatasaray are considering to loan its player Yunus Akgun to Giresunspor to next season after it would make deal to extend contract with its player to allow him to get experience.

This news to some extend or more precisely rumour would be seen as surprise however as their were talks at the media before hand that outside Turkey clubs like Anderlecht are showing strong interest to the player but this could be really related factor that it is aware of Akgun and aims to keep him close to the team and only sends him to Giresunspor, if it would for gaining playing time and experience as his level of performance is not yet for starting 11. Of course, Akgun decision might also play role as he is known that he wanted to join European side but again if their is no much quarentee that he would be able to get much playing time abroad than this option could be most suitable for him. As always this rumour is pretty different from all previous ones and hence time would show how this story would develop.

Once again it does look Akgun reaction to this decision, if there is one, as he wanted to join Europe a lot during mid-season break and likely still wants to do so in summer.

In other news:

- Konyaspor has drawn friendly game against Eskisehirspor with 1:1 scoreline.

- Goztepe has won friendly game against Altinordu with 5:4 scoreline.

- Galatasaray has announced its debt to be 2,825,755,791 TL since 31st December 2018.

- Buraspor has announced its debt to be 491,631,609 TL

- Galatasaray members didnt provide enough votes for CEO Mustafa Cengiz performance at the club as it got 331 votes, even through minumum passed is 358. According to that, club would go to another CEO election with current CEO not allowed to run for election.

- Trabzonspor still didnt pay 1 million euro transfer fee to Hapoel Beer Sheva for Nwakaeme transfer.

- TurkishNationalTeam player Hasan Ali Kaldirim has played against Albania with having a flu.

- Besiktas are interested to transfer Yeni Malatyaspor player Guihelme.

- Besiktas are interested to transfer Norrkoping player Alexander Fransson, Viitorul players Denis Dragus and Tudor Baruta.

- Galatasaray would aim to transfer players who would be request higher than 2.5 million euro salary during summer transfer window.

- Besiktas are interested to transfer Dijon player Oussama Haddadi.

- BayerLeverkusen are interested to transfer Milan player Hakan Calhanoglu.

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Beveren player Nana Ampomah.

- Galatasaray will have transfer negotiations with Everton and Stoke City regarding transfer of Henry Onyekuru and Badou Ndiaye.

- Fenerbahce considers to extend contract with its player Roberto Soldado and keep him as 2nd forward player during next season.

- Sivasspor considers to transfer Leicester City player Diabete who is currently loaned to them.

- Galatasaray has changed its mind to sell its players Youness Belhanda and Sofiane Feghouli during summer transfer window.

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Chicago Fire player Przymyslav Frankowski.

- Sion are interested to transfer Besiktas player Ricardo Quaresma.

What happened in Turkish football today? 22/03/2019

Turkey has got great score but not as good performance.

Turkish National Team has opened its new chapter with its new head coach Senol Gunes at Euro 2020 qualifiers at high note as it has won game against Albania with 2:0 scoreline despite of not providing very effective game.

Even through it could be easily stated that Turkish National Team didnt provide great attacking game with creating pretty low chances, it has used their opportunities at high point as it has found 2 goals. To some extend slow tempo game, which without doubt would not keep followers of Turkey happy in general, to some extend has went into hand of Turkey as it has managed to use its opportunities in good manner and also to some extend has used its advantage of not in great form of Albania during today's game. Without doubt at not very easy ground for top 2 spots it is important to get 6 points and it has got its 1st points and now would face, in all respect to Moldavia, an easier opponent. It was also important for Burak Yilmaz to carry its great shooting chances with Turkey as he does with Besiktas and does provide a view that he would become an important player for Turkey during this qualification campaign.

Even through Turkey did come out to this game as favourite, Albania has provided even weaker performance which was expected from them and only strong area which could be noted is good midfield performance, but this overall performance today would lead team low chances to get to the Euro2020.

Turkish National Team maybe didnt provide great game but it has got an important result at 1st game of campaign and also with its new head coach which would provide right motivational boost for rest of qualification.

Besiktas and Galatasaray are interested Rizespor player Vedat Muriqi.

Besiktas and Galatasaray are having an interest at transferring Vedat Muriqi during summer transfer window, as player is being among leading players at the Rizespor and has shown good performance in recent seasons at Super League.

It also reported that Rizespor are showing bigger interest towards Muriqi as it also reported that Besiktas head coach Senol Gunes has provided positive view towards player and has shown also interest among Besiktas administrators. If those rumours are true that both clubs are showing interest, it would be without doubt a huge jump in career for Muriqi as he has played until now mainly at mediocre sides where as been mentioned he has provided reasonably good performance until now. Of course, their would be question regarding of adapting to big clubs but it would be unknown until he got chances.

As always, this is only being rumours for now but time would show if both clubs would be interested to transfer him during window and how much Besiktas would like to purchase him.

Galatasaray reported to make transfer deal with Sener Ozbayrakli.

Galatasaray among Vedat Muriqi are reported to have strong interest with Fenerbahce player Sener Ozbayrakli and even reported to make transfer deal for summer arleady between sides.

There is high expectation that Sener Ozbayrakli, who had mixture of performance and gaming time, would be living Fenerbahce at the end of the season and as it became norm, as it should be, for transfer between big clubs in Turkey,it is reported that Galatasaray has made transfer deal. With Galatasaray still aiming to make their defence even stronger as it is now, would be seeing Ozbayrakli as strong player for that position and would be expected to be regular starting 11. It would also allow Ozbayrakli to keep his level of performance level at high level as he is still capable to provide high level performance and would be aiming to show that if he would join Galatasaray.

If all this rumours are true, than Galatasaray did make an important purchase for its defence area for next season.

Results:
UEFA Euro 2020 qualifiers, Group H, 1st week:
Albania 0:2 Turkey
Moldova 1:4 France
Andorra 0:2 Iceland

In other news:

- UEFA has announced that referee of Euro 2020 qualifiers Group H 2nd week game between Turkish National Team and Moldavian National Team will be Sergii Boiko.

- Trabzonspor considers to offer extension contract to Hugo Rodallega with salary between 800,000 to 1,000,000 euro.

- Antalyaspor and Rizespor will play friendly game on 29th March.

- Galatasaray: CAS has accepted our complaint regarding UEFA Adjudicatory Chamber to go through once again deal and CAS has ordered for previous deal to go through and make Adjudicatory Chamber rejection.

- Rizespor CEO Hasan Kartal has stated that he is hoping that head coach Okan Buruk would stay for next season.

- Rizespor are interested to transfer Galatasaray player Ahmet Calik.

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Rapid Wien player Melih Ibrahimoglu

- Besiktas are interested to transfer Yeni Malatyaspor player Ertac Ozbir.

- Besiktas considers to sell its players Gary Medel, Ricardo Quaresma, Vida and Cyle Larin.

- Besiktas and Galatasaray are interested to transfer Rizespor player Vedat Muriq.

- Zurich are interested to transfer Fenerbahce player Michael Frey.

- Fenerbahce would consider to transfer Andre Ayew who is loaned from Swansea City if his club would reduce fee to 2 million euro.

- Trabzonspor are interested to transfer Erzurumspor player Obertan.

- Kayserispor has set transfer fee of its player Deniz Turuc as 5 million euro.