29 May 2022

What happened in Turkish football today? 28/05/2022



Trabzonspor has won highly deserved title with dominance of whole season.

Starting from today our blog would be providing summary of 2021-22 season, with starting unsurprisingly with title winners Trabzonspor which has dominated this Super League season without losing top position for more than half of the season.

With making some important transfers during previous summer transfer window and also Abdullah Avci showing some good performance since previous season, Trabzonspor has been seen as one of the main title contenders since season has been started but it wasnt expected that it would win in such dominating manner without doubt. However, starting from 1st week of the season, Trabzonspor has shown strong attacking game and dominating games regardless who would been their opponents in the Super League games, which it continued for whole season apart of last 2 months of the season which been due of relaxation of being very close at winning title. At short Trabzonspor has deserved this title as teamwise and individually everyone gave their best on the field.

Trabzonspor has celebrated its first title since 1983 and has done so in such style that whole world has talked about them, and now side would starting upcoming season with high expectation both domestically and in Europe. 

There is Fenerbahce before Ismail Kartal and after.

2021-22 season for Fenerbahce could be divided into two parts of before Ismail Kartal and after him as it did have very dissapointing season and wasnt even expected to get European spot and after Ismail Kartal where it didnt lose single game and showed dominant game.

It needs to be also stated that Fenerbahce in scorewise didnt start season too badly with even getting into leadership spot in October, but has shown strong drop of performance after Trabzonspor game which led for back-to-back loss of points and even through it did continue losing point until March, it did lose its tile opportunities for sure after that Trabzonspor game. One of the reasons is that Fenerbahce has felt to be stolen victory on that game, debatable issue in all fairness, which has affected mentally negatively to Fenerbahce. However, among this Vitor Pereira didnt manage to get maximum level of performance from his squad with having some wrong tactical preferences which were not suitable both for the team and to the league. Ismail Kartal which has come to team in short notice, as side didnt make deal with Joachim Low, has managed to bring fighting spirit to the side and with his help brough runners-up spot to the team. If team started with Ismail Kartal for sure at least side would be fighting for title until last week.

It does look like Jorge Jesus would become new coach for Fenerbahce, and even through Jesus has strong potential for side, it would been wiser in our view to continue with coach who has turned around side dramatically positively in short period.

Konyaspor in overall did show outstanding performance during this season.

Without doubt one of the main surprises of this season has been Konyaspor who has ended season at 3rd spot and got ticket to European Conference League and its need to be mentioned as side it has been pretty close to become champions.

In fact, it has been one of the main contenders to get top of the position during start of the 2nd half of the season and did provide pressure to Trabzonspor but when it did meet with named opponent in early spring, it did lose game which had negative impact to side morale and it began losing points back-to-back and similar has happened towards end of the season as it lost 2nd spot to Fenerbahce. So, it could be noted that it did lose at least 2nd spot due of this drop of performance in this moment, but even with this periods it could be stated without doubt that Konyaspor has been 3rd best team in the league. It also needs to be mentioned that with economical condition of the club and also level of squad, even through it wasnt bad, it still not in level to fight for title and hence this downside could be understood and 3rd spot should be seen as high performance. Also, it needs to be remembered that tragic death of Ahmet Calik during car crash, which led for season to be named after him, did affect concentration and morale of the side.

Konyaspor still has been among side which did overpass its expectation and as been noted got well deserved 3rd spot in the league.

Schedule:
Turkish 1st league, play-off round, 2nd leg:
15:30 Bandirmaspor - Eyupspor (agg: 0:1)
18:00 Istanbulspor - Erzurumspor(agg: 4:2)

In other news:
- Besiktas has announced its debt to be 4,900,612,000 TL.
 - Besiktas CEO Ahmet Nur Cebi administration performance has been validated from members.
- Ankaragucu has signed Giorgi Beridze for 2+1 years.
- Galatasaray CEO candidate Dursun Ozbek: You cant get bigger as club by getting smaller. We would be behind opponents then. We need to get title. We need to get players which would give everything to this club.
- Trabzonspor head coach Abdullah Avci: For me extension of contract is not priority right now. We can sign 3-5 year contract. I feel like I will be in this club forever. We aim to get good results at Champions League, domestic title is not enough. We aim for 6-8 players transfers
- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Basaksehirspor player Trezeguet.
- Basaksehirspor player Tolga Cigerci agent had one-on-one transfer negotiations with Besiktas.
- Besiktas are interested to transfer Trabzonspor player Yusuf Sari
- Ankaragucu and Umraniyespor are interested to transfer Fenerbahce player Jose Sosa.
- Hatayspor has terminated contract with its player Munir Mohammedi.
-Besiktas has made 4-year contract deal with CSKA Sofia player Jordy Caicedo.
-Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Real Betis player William Carvalho. 
 

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