What happened in Turkish football today? 30/05/2022

Altay had strange season without doubt.

Relegation of the Altay from Super League without has been most interesting case and when looking in the start of the season period most unexpected as it did start at very good form but after has lost games back-to-back.

Altay during at one point got into leadership with showing very good performance and did look to be side which would end season at the European spots but after one moment it start losing games back-to-back which led for club to end contract with Mustafa Denizli but somehow upcoming coaches who took his spaces couldnt prevent this negative run in the club. It is quite possibly that Altay has been among few clubs which been seen to have great season on its 1st season after return from lower league and who has been relegated and done that with some weeks before end of the season.

Altay has dropped after good start in total free fall and it needs to go through why it happened if it wants to return to Super League.

Goztepe did show good performance but didnt get results.

Another Izmir side, Goztepe, did also have interesting season as it did spend most of the time at relegation zone or around that area but there were moments when it did show good performances but didnt get win.

When coming to the effort, there were times in the season, especially at mid-season where Goztepe did provide strong performance and did look well but did lack results which been seen that it lacked some strong attacking players. Still, when looking how it performed in some games and also games which it did win, as it did have period of back-to-back good results, it would be seen interesting to see how they relegated when in fact squad of the side has not been too badly.

It does look like one of the issues for the team to be relegated has been internal and squad building and side would need to focus on this if it wants to return to Super League next season.

Yeni Malatyaspor has been poorly managed as club.

Yeni Malatyaspor among all of the relegated sides, to all respect to them, has been provided worst performance both with results and also performance and effort which been due of club being poorly managed.

It needs to be stated that during previous season, Yeni Malatyaspor has been close to relegation with getting managed to stay on league with last wins apart of 3-year season ago when it did even get European spot. Yeni Malatyaspor needs to go some serious changes adminstrative and financially if it wants to have similar drop of performance which are Bursaspor, which been dropped to 2nd league and Karabukspor, which been dropped down to amateur leagues, as both those sides did enjoy some European football only recently.

Yeni Malatyaspor is in serious crises as team and it need to find for sure, but it would be too optimistic to expect them to return to top league soon.

In other news:

- Sivasspor and Kayserispor has been referred to PFDK for behaviour of fans, events on field and not leaving stairs empty

- TFF has announced that 1st league play-off round final game between Bandirmaspor and Istanbulspor will be played at Kocaeli Stadium on 2nd June at 20:00. Winner of the game will be promoted to Super League.

- MehmetBuyukeksi has announced his candidacy for TFF CEO.

- Trabzonspor CEO Ahmet Agaoglu: Edin Visca has played important role for title, but for me is very expensive transfer. We are having negotiations with 10-12 players. We gave our highest offer to Anthony Nwakaeme, we now waiting for his response.

- Fenerbahce has made loan deal with Shakhtar Donetsk player Lassina Traore.

- Umraniyespor are interested to transfer Fenerbahce player Burak Kapacak.

- Sivasspor head coach Riza Calimbay has stated that club needs to make 3-4 transfers during summer transfer window.

- Galatasaray considers to raise salary of its player Yunus Akgun from 800,000 TL and extend contract.

- Besiktas are interested to transfer Goztepe player Atinc Nukan.

- Hatayspor are interested to appoint Santos B head coach Alex de Souza as club's head coach.

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Felipe Augusto, Florrian Glillitch,

- Trabzonspor has raised extension offer from 1,175,000 euro to 1,300,000 for Stefano Denswill.

- Antalyaspor are interested to transer Trabzonspor player Yunus Malli

- Besiktas are interested to transfer Klagenfurt player Turgay Gemicibasi

- Zamalek: We are preparing to send warning letter to Galatasaray where would provide deadline for payment of Mostafa Mohammed.

- Trabzonspor are interested to transfer Adanaspor player Celil Yuksel.

- Besiktas are interested to transfer Kayserispor player Mert Cetin

- Trabzonspor didnt make extension deal with its player Anthony Nwakaeme.

- Galatasaray has offered 7 million euro to Rangers player Ianis Hagi

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Estoril player Joao Carlos.

- Antalyaspor has set transfer fee of its player Bunyamin Balci as 3.5 million euro.

- OlympiqueMarseille has made transfer deal with Galatasaray player Bartug Elmaz

- Umraniyespor has terminated contract with its player Mevlut Erdinc.

- Bologna are interested to transfer Fenerbahce player Dimitrios Pelkas