07 March 2019

What happened in Turkish football today? 06/03/2019


Besiktas considers to appoint Guti as head coach until end of the season

With Besiktas head coach Senol Gunes being confirmed to be at the position of the Turkish National Team during Euro2020 qualifiers against Andorra and Moldova, future of his at his club is staying with question mark.

Besiktas administrators seems to be coming to an agreement that Senol Gunes doing his two jobs at same time would lead to lose concentration towards his club and hence their are talks taking place that assistant coach Guti Hernandez might be taking role as main coach until end of the season, if it decided to end contract in upcoming games. In fact, the chances of unwanted result during Super League 25th week game against Konyaspor could lead for such a decision, with also possibility that Senol Gunes might call for resignation himself following game. To be ready for such actions, it is reported that Besiktas administrators has told Guti Hernandez to be ready for such decision. It needs to be remembered however that even through Guti, compare to Senol Gunes, would be only able to concentrate towards team he doesnt have much experience at the main role and this could have even worser consequences, therefore Besiktas does have difficult decision to made until end of the season.

As been stated on previous blogs, for Senol Gunes staying at both Turkish National Team and Besiktas position could lead some issues to at least one of the sides, and since he cant leave Turkish National Team he might be needed to sacrifice Besiktas position.

Trabzonspor does have some barriers to have great season.

Trabzonspor head coach Unal Karaman, has been observed to have pretty heated press conference today showing his unhappiness and protest for recieivng high amount of criticism towards him after Kasimpasa game.

It needs to be reminded that due o financial issues at the team, which also naturally affected to the squad in sense of squad, Trabzonspor does have limited options to do changes and that is main reason why he uses high amount of academy players, even through this development has opportunity to do good for future of Turkish football. Due of recieving high amount of criticism of providing right changes and actions during Kasimpasa, he stated that media doesnt recognise into difficulties which club is at. Even through this blog did state criticisms in sense of performance, it needs to be admitted that team is doing great jobs with economical problems, which clubs previous administrations has created and has been building up. In fact, ending season at Europa League position, which is still possibility, would be seen as good performance for a team at the end of the season and should not be undermined if it ends at 4th position.

Trabzonspor is going through difficult but its important for players not get distracted of events which team go through in administrative part.

Bottom teams are doing their best to stay at the league. 

Even through at the top of the table, the picture of how rest of the season would develop does become more or less clear, especially with results coming from 2nd half, it needs to be stated that relegation zone continues to have an exciting race.

With almost half of the teams are still having realistic chances of being relegated, including Fenerbahce, every point seems to be very important for them. Even bottom 2 halves, which at table seem to be most disadvantage, Erzurumspor and Akhisarspor did manage not to lose last week and also gaining points with some good football could mean that their in 2-3 weeks can find themselves at safe zone. In all circumstances, bottom teams need to get points to stay at league at the end of the season,with this season all of them getting points frequently could lead that unwanted results for 2-3 weeks could put them from half of the table to relegation zone. Last 2 games of Galatasaray against bottom 2 teams, last minute goal against Akhisarspor and draw against Erzurumspor does show that those two teams might have issues as side but their are not giving up for staying at the league.

This league does turn around where none of the team cant lose any teams, only possibly
Basaksehirspor who does have 2 game in hand not counting Galatasaray game, cant lose any games as their might be away from their key points. Even through main spot seems to become clear, we are having league where 17 teams have games to win for last 10 games.

In other news:

TFF has moved Super League 25th week game game between Ankaragucu and Bursaspor on 9th March kick-off time from 13:30 to 19:00. Decision has been to raise revenue, as Ankaragucu supporters plan to use all revenues to provide to families of supporters who passed from crash.

Erzurumspor has appointed Hamza Hamzaoglu as club's head coach for 1.5 years.

Trabzonspor has forgiven its player Olcay Sahan and has taken him back to squad.

Fenerbahce players Sadik Ciftpinar and Mehmet Ekici are expected to start against Basaksehirspor during Super League 25th week game.

Schalke04 considers to offer 10 million euro for Basaksehirspor player Edin Visca

Galatasaray are interested to transfer Fenerbahce player Sener Ozbayrakli.

AtleticoMadrid are interested to transfer Galatasaray player Marcao.

Galatasaray and Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Borussia Dortmund player Huseyin Bulut.

Besiktas are interested to appoint Mark Hughes as club's head coach.

Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Benfica player Nico Gaitan

Besiktas considers to end loan-deal with its player Lorius Karius at the end of the season.

Galatasaray are interested to transfer Slovan Bratislava player Moha and Onur Kivrak.

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