What happened in Turkish football today? 29/06/2022

 Rizespor has loaned Kerem Kalafat.

Rizespor has loaned Besiktas player Kerem Kalafat until end of the season as he would be getting some playing time and would return to side with much condition after 1 season.

With Rizespor being relegated on 1st league and now would be aiming to get back to the Super League, would make team to be having some high targets and hence it would be help for Kerem Kalafat to develop as player both during training sessions and also at the games if he would be starting. Therefore, it would provide lots of playing experience to the player and help to develop as player with Rizespor being side to be focussed into developing players. Hence, such move would be correct one both to player and also club.

Therefore, Kerem Kalafat would get opportunity to develop as player in upcoming season and return to Besiktas in good form.

Fulham has raised transfer offer for Ugurcan Cakir

Fulham are reported to be rising transfer offer for Trabzonspor player Ugurcan Cakir from 17 million euro to 20 million euro as club has aims aims to stay at the Premier League.

With Fulham being promoted to Premier League, it does have some higher aims from previous seasons and hence it would been focussed to transfer Ugurcan Cakir as he would provide strength to goalkeeping position. With Ugurcan Cakir being interested to join European club it does seem to be issue with convincing Trabzonspor and it has done that with rising transfer offer to 20 million euro so it would be interesting to see how club would respond to such offer.

Hence, it is expected for negotiations between parties to continue and we would follow how it would do so.

3 clubs are interested to sign Magomed Ozdoev.

Fatih Karagumruk, Adana Demirspor and Ankaragucu are interested to transfer Zenit ex-player Magomed Ozdoyev as he would be joining from side from league winners and does have lots of experience at Champions League.

Magomed Ozdoev is being without doubt good player with high potential and could provide strength to side especially if its being side with modest aims and could provide needed strength to defence which is being as known one of the key positions in this league. It needs to be mentioned though that there might be even stronger clubs or sides from top leagues which might show interest towards him so this named club if this rumour is true need to be much more active in short period as he would be pretty demanded player.

Our accounts would follow Magomed Ozdoev transfer development.

In other news:

- Fenerbahce has won pre-season friendly game against Al Shamal with 4:2 scoreline.

- AdanaDemirspor will start pre-season training camp on 1st July in Bolu. It would play friendly games against:

- 8/07: vs. Gaziantep 

- 12/07: vs. Umm Salal

Meanwhile, team would travel to Italy camp between 20th July and 1st August.

- TFF has lifted away game supporters ban from upcoming season. In addition, there would be Reserve League of Super League clubs.

- FatihKaragumruk has announced technical staff team:

-Head coach: Andrea Pirlo

- Assistant coach: Roberto Barinio, Mauro Bertoni and Alpaslan Erdem

- Athletic Performance trainer: Paulo Bertelli

- Goalkeeper coach: Nicolo Pavarini

- Match analyst: Antonio Gagliardi

- FatihKaragumruk has loaned Frosinone player Matteo Ricci.

- Giresunspor has transferred Rahmettulah Berisbek and Mert Hakan Kurt.

- Fenerbahce are interested PSG player Danilo.

- Trabzonspor are interested to transfer Porto player Chancel Mbemba.

- Istanbulspor are interested to transfer Besiktas player Emrecan Uzunhan

- Fenerbahce has offered 2.5 million euro reduction of salary to its player Luiz Gustavo.

- Bodrumspor are interested to transfer Trabzonspor player Koray Kilinc.

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Real Madrid player Mariano Diaz

- Fenerbahce has made principal deal with Real Betis player William Carvalho for 5 million euro.

- Fulham has raised transfer offer from 17 million euro to 20 million euro for Trabzonspor player Ugurcan Cakir.

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Bodo Glimt player Erik Botheim

- FatihKaragumruk has made transfer deal with Dimitrios Kolovetsios

- Alanyaspor are interested to transfer Al Ahli player Alessnadro Ndao.

- Antalyaspor has made transfer deal with OmerToprak for 2-years.

- SerkanUnver has been appointed as Giresunspor general director.

- Umraniyespor has transferred Steaua Bucharest player Valentin Gheorghe

- Sevilla are interested to transfer Atletico Madrid player Francisco Montero.

What happened in Turkish football today? 28/06/2022

Galatasaray assistant coach Alberto Riera has left from his position

Galatasaray assistant coach Alberto Riera has left from his position and club after being on the position during last season as this could be mainly related for appointment of Okan Buruk and ending of contract with Domenec Torrent.

With Galatasaray technical staff being run heavily from Turkish personality, this decision could be seen understandable from Alberto Riera as it needs to be mentioned that team did have unsuccessful season. It also needs to be mentioned that connection between Riera and Buruk are not being very close which could be also playing some role. Stating that Riera does have strong connection with this team and hence it would not be expected for this connection to be going entirely and there would be strong connection between parties for sure.

Alberto Riera did mark his name more as player then at coaching staff, but it would be expected for him to come back to the team in some role in near future for sure.

Alanyaspor signs Mert Yusuf Torlak for 5-years.

Alanyaspor has transferred 19-year old Greuther Furth player Mert Yusuf Torlak for 5-years as team continues to focus into Turkish younger players and building team for future.

Due of his age, it might not be expected for Torlak to recieve lots of playing time as it tends to be case in Super League unless he does prove himself at pre-season training camp but signing him for 5-years does show that team believes into future of the player very likely and hence Torlak would now need to focus to prove himself to team and hence fulfill expectations. Stating that he does have lots of potential and would likely to improve his skill with being at team which does develop players.

Hence, this is being good and effective transfer for Alanyaspor as player does show some good future investement to team.

Giresunspor loans Trabzonspor player Murat Cem Akpinar

Giresunspor loans Trabzonspor player Murat Cem Akpinar until end of the season as he is being one of the potential players in Turkey.

Trabzonspor without doubt does have lots of players who could become potential stars in the team but due of not recieving lots of playing time does lose opportunity to get experienced, and hence for him joining Giresunspor team which develop some players is being right move both to team and player while Giresunspor might get player which has potential to show confident game in the team. Therefore, this loan deal could be potentially good addition to all bodies.

Murat Cem Akpinar would get opportunity to get some playing time, and now its his turn to fulfill this chance.

In other news:

- Galatasaray technical staff has been announced:

- Head coach:Okan Buruk 

- Assistant coach: Irfan Sarfanoglu

- Goalkeeper coach: Can Okuyucu

- Athletic performance trainer: Dursun Genc

- Conditioner: Kaan Arisoy.

- Konyaspor has made transfer deal with Gaziantep player Muhammed Demir.

-  Ankaragucu has transferred Jese Rodriguez for 1+1 years.

- Trabzonspor has signed sponsorship deal with Vestel for 3-years for 33 million TL.

- Augsburg are interested to transfer Fenerbahce player Serdar Dursun.

- Espanyol sports director Domingo Catoira has stated that club didn't receive offer for Matias Vargas.

- Reims and Toulouse considers to offer 8 million euro for Galatasaray player Mustafa Mohammed.

- Antalyaspor has set transfer fee of its player Dogukan Sinik as 6 million euro. 

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Bordeaux player Hwang Ui Jo.

-Anderlecht made principal contract with Fenerbahce player Berke Ozer.

- Hatayspor has made transfer deal with Rayane Aabid for 2-years.

- Udinese has offered 3 million euro for Fenerbahce player Marcel Tisserand.

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Parma player Giuseppe Pezella.

- Galatasaray has ended contract with its player Ismail Cipe.

- Besiktas are interested to loan Real Madrid player Reinier Jesus Calvarho

- Fenerbahce has raised transfer offer to Real Madrid player Mariano from 4 million euro to 5 million euro.

- Sandhausen has loaned Basaksehirspor player Ahmet Kutucu.

- Fenerbahce has declined 5 million euro offer from Mallorca for Serdar Dursun

What happened in Turkish football today? 27/06/2022

Umraniyespor has signed Serkan Kirintili for 1-year.

Umraniyespor has signed Alanyaspor ex-player Serkan Kirintili and hence got into disposal goalkeeper with high experience at the Super League level which would play an important role for team in upcoming season.

Serkan Kirintili has shown for long time high level performance in the top division, and hence addition of himself to the newly promoted side would provide some secure in the back without doubt as goalkeeper position would play an important role for side which aims primarily not to be relegated in upcoming season. It needs to be mentioned that so far Umraniyespor is having pretty effective transfer window but without doubt would need to focus into level of player which is being Serkan Kirintili who are still capable of showing strong performance in this level.

Serkan Kiritnili for sure is being effective addition to the side and is expected to carry on such manner for upcoming season.

Kasimpasa extends contract with Tunay Torun.

Kasimpasa has extended contract with its player Tunay Torun until 2023 as player has been one of the key players in the side in recent seasons and hence side did keep one of most identified in the team.

Tunay Torun has shown stable and good performance in the team and has played an important role for such good end of previous season so it was reasonable for Kasimpasa to extend contract with him during this summer. Hence, Tunay Torun who is being happy in this team also would hence continue his career at the Kasimpasa and continue playing a key role in the side in upcoming seasons too without doubt.

Kasimpasa is still being to some extend at transfer front until now and needs to focus into strengthening its side if it wants to better previous season though.

Egemen Korkmaz leaves his assistant coach position at Trabzonspor.

Trabzonspor assistant coach Egemen Korkmaz has left from his position as he did play an important role with league title at the team.

With Egemen Korkmaz provided some memorable strong performance as assistant coach and before that as player in the team does take an important place in the team and hence there would be some sadness at whole team for him leaving but there is likely that his decision been to focus into head coach role possibly looking for some offers in upcoming period of time. Egemen Korkmaz still played an important with this title and one day could return to team as main coach.

Egemen Korkmaz as been mentioned did play an important role as player and assistant coach role and now would be looking ways how to develop as player.

In other news:

- Galatasaray will play pre-season friendly game against Sturm Graz on 9th July.

- Besiktas had its first pre-season training session

- FatihKaragumruk has signed Fortuna Sittard player Adnan Ugur for 2-years.

- Kasimpasa has signed Selim Delli.

- Giresunspor has loaned Trabzonspor player Murat Cem Akpinar for 1-year

- Gaziantep has transferred Genclerbirligi player Omurcan Artan for 3-years.

- Alanyaspor will test Lorenzo Callegri for 3-weeks during training sessions.

 - Hatayspor has signed Nanook player Hamed Enzo for 3-years.

- Kayserispor doesnt consider to sell its players Cenk Gonen and Mustafa Pektemek during summer transfer window.

- Galatasaray player Marcao has declined Zenit transfer offer of 15 million euro.

- Trabzonspor has offered 1.5 million euro+bonuses to Aston Villa player Trezeguet

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Denayer and Onur Bulut.

- Besiktas are interested to transfer Saint Etienne player Miguel Trauco.

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer player Olympiakos player Konstantinos Fortounis.

- Galatasaray has offered 5 million euro to Adana Demirspor player Matias Vargas.

- Trabzonspor are interested to transfer CSKA Moscow player Chidera Ejuke.

- Kayserispor has made transfer deal with Dijon player Mounir Chouair

- Besiktas are interested to transfer Goztepe player Kerem Alici.

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Roma player Stephen El Shaarawy.

What happened in Turkish football today? 26/06/2022

Galatasaray has signed Abdulkerim Bardakci for 3+1 years.

Galatasaray has signed Konyaspor player Abdulkerim Bardakci as player has been one of the most discussed transfer so far during this summer transfer window as club has signed him for 3+1 years.

Galatasaray has managed to make deal with Konyaspor previously as all 3 Istanbul giants has provided similar offers to the club for player but there were question if player was satisfied with contract conditions of all 3 clubs. In the end, Galatasaray has managed to convince him with an offer and in duration of short period of one-on-one transfer negotiations he has made contract with club. With Abdulkerim Bardakci being strong defender and showed good performance at Konyaspor, there is expectation for him to provide some good performance at Galatasaray.

In on going, battle between 3 clubs Galatasaray has managed to be victorious and now it would be awaiting for player to show good performance next season.

Hull City has made deal with Fenerbahce player Ozan Tufan

Fenerbahce player Ozan Tufan has travelled to England for one-on-one transfer negotiations with Hull City as side has made principal deals with each other. 

After returning from Premier League to Fenerbahce, Ozan Tufan didnt provide strong performance but with Hull City being owned by Turkish media mogul Acun Ilicali, there has been some focus into players who played in Super League with one of them being Ozan Tufan which Fenerbahce didnt have plans to use much in upcoming season. Therefore, this would be seen as good deal for Fenerbahce while Hull City without doubt would be expecting for Tufan to rise once again with his performance and be helpful to side high aims in upcoming season.

There is expectation for Ozan Tufan and Hull City to make deal between each other in short time. 

Roma determined to transfer Trabzonspor player Abdulkadir Omur

Roma are showing strong interest with Trabzonspor player Abdulkadir Omur as player wants to join European club during summer transfer window.

It has been known that Roma has been highly impressed with Abdulkerim Omur and hence are showing strong interests towards him and without doubt Omur would like to join him as he would be playing with top club at top league and hence provide him to develop with head coach of team being Jose Mourinho. Trabzonspor meanwhile does request for high transfer fee for one of its key players and it would be hence interesting to see how Roma would respond.

As always, our blog would follow this story in our accounts as there is question where Abdulkadir Omur would play next season.

In other news:

- Gaziantep has transferred Liapi player Valmir Veliu for 3-year

- Fulham has offered 17 million euro for Trabzonspor player Ugurcan Cakir.

- Besiktas has made principal deal with Standard Liege player Jackson Muleka.

- AdanaDemirspor are interested to transfer Alanyaspor player Tayyip Talha Sanuc

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Aston Villa player Morgan Sanson.

- Besiktas has started transfer negotiations with Reading player Lucas Joao

- TottenhanHotspur are interested to transfer Inter Milan player Hakan Calhanoglu

- Sivasspor are interested to transfer Basaksehirspor player Fredrik Gulbrandsen

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Real Betis player William Calvalho.

- Besiktas considers to provide new offer to its player Atiba Hutchinson.

- Basaksehirspor head coach Emre Belozoglu has stated that club aims to transfer 2-3 players during this summer transfer window.

- Fenerbahce player Arda Guler has attended training session after recovering from injury.

What happened in Turkish football today? 25/06/2022

 

Kasimpasa signs Sadik Ciftpinar.

Kasimpasa has signed Sadik Ciftpinar as it strengthened its defensive position with player who has lots of experience and is used to the Super League level.

Even through Sadik Ciftpinar performance at the Fenerbahce wasnt in the level which been expected by club, he still did show some good performance occassionally and has shown himself to be in level of Super League defensive and with Kasimpasa signing him has been an important addition to defensive position without doubt. With Kasimpasa has some highs in upcoming season, this would been an important addition and would lead side to concede less amount of goals without doubt as defence as it is known does play an important role. 

Therefore, Kasimpasa did make an important addition to the team and would be able to get some very good results in upcoming season.

Galatasaray are close to sign Abdulkerim Bardakci.

Konyaspor player Abdulkerim Bardakci has made transfer deal with Galatasaray as side was able to provide best offer and Fenerbahce didnt raise its offered to the team.

With Konyaspor making deal with Besiktas, Fenerbahce and Galatasaray in more or less similar transfer deal, it was question which side would Abdulkerim Bardakci would choose as it was question more or less into individual offer and Galatasaray with 3+1 year contract and 280,000 euro salary did make offer which suited player. Therefore, with Abdulkerim Bardakci arriving to Istanbul right now both parties are discussing about deal of contract and as soon as deal is made, if it would, Bardakci would sign contract with Galatasaray.

It does look like Galatasaray made deal with player but until signature things could change as this story developed like this.

Rennes are interested to sign Galatasaray player Fernando Muslera.

Rennes are reported to be interested to sign Galatasaray player Fernando Muslera as such deal would affect negatively to club as it would lose goalkeeper which individually added points to side in recent seasons.

It is known that Galatasaray does put Fernando Muslera as player which would not be sold for long time as he is being best player and most effective at the team since joining side but it is known that Rennes are actively looking for number 1 goalkeeper right now and could have some on-going negotiations with knowing financial conditions of Galatasaray right now and hence would offering some impressive and good transfer fees. Hence, it would be seen how Galatasaray would continue transfer negotiations if those rumours are true and how would Galatasaray respond.

Istanbul giant surely wouldnt like to sell its best player in squad and hence it would be interesting how this story would carry on in upcoming days.

In other news:

- Fenerbahce has won pre-season friendly game against Tirana with 4:0 scoreline.

- Sivasspor has announced its pre-season friendly game:

20/07: vs. Szombatheleyi Haladas 

22/07: vs. Sigma Olouc

25/07: vs. Sharjah

-FatihKaragumruk will start its pre-season training on 28th June at Fenerbahce facilities where it would stay until 9th July and will resume at same place on 12th July until 24th July.

- Trabzonspor has announced its debt to be 1,922,815, 640 TL.

- Galatasaray has signed Konyaspor player Abdulkerim Bardakci for 3+1 years with transfer fee of 2,800,000 euro. Player will receive in 1st season: 17 million TL, 2nd season 19,550,000 TL, 3rd season 23,450,000 TL and 4th season(if used) 29,325,000 TL.

-  Konyaspor has signed Kahraman Demirtas.

- Antalyaspor has offered 1.8 million euro + 10% share from next transfer to Sonderjyske player Haji Wright

- UEFA CEO Aleksander Ceferin: Right now Italy cant even host Champions League final due of stadium conditions. Euro 2032 main contender for them is Turkey and latter is being clear favourite.

- PSVEindhoven are interested to transfer Besiktas player Atiba Hutchinson.

- Fenerbahce player Kim Min Jae has decided to stay at club for next season.

- Lommel has declined Fenerbahce offer of 4.3 million pounds for Vinicius Souza.

- Trabzonspor are interested to transfer Groningen player Jorgen Strand Larsen.

- Besiktas has made loan offer with Burnley player Wout Weghorst for 2,800,000 euro salary and 12,500 euro game bonus.

- AdanaDemirspor are interested to transfer Goztepe player Irfan Can Egribat.

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Cadiz player Ivan Alejo.

- Galatasaray sports director Cenk Ergun would travel to Italy for one-on-one transfer negotiations with Calgari player Keita Balde.

- Trabzonspor are interested to transfer Fatih Karagumruk player Emre Mor.

- Fenerbahce: Our club has made principal deal with Hull City regarding transfer of Ozan Tufan. Player will travel to England on 26th June.

What happened in Turkish football today? 24/06/2022

Besiktas signs Gedson Fernandes for 2+1 years

Besiktas has signed officially contract with Gedson Fernandes for 2+1 years after he has been loaned to Rizespor during 2nd half of the season and would now perform with his new team for title in next season.

Besiktas did get deal with Fernandes during previous mid-season transfer window but made a deal to let him to be loaned to Rizespor where he did show very good performance even through side has relegated. With Gedson Fernandes showing strong professionalism both with performance at Rizespor and also keeping word to Besiktas as Galatasaray did try to make transfer with him, would show strong character which would be suitable for side without doubt and lead him to show top performance. Therefore, both sides did make deal which would be effective and productive for sure.

Besiktas hence did get strong character who would provide important strength to side without doubt in upcoming season.

Fatih Karagumruk signs Ibrahim Dresevic.

Fatih Karagumruk has transferred Ibrahim Dresevic as player expects to provide important strength to the team during upcoming season.

There are some high expectations from Dresevic who could show some strong and confident performance in upcoming season in the Fatih Karagumruk and becoming one of the key players who does have top half aims with possibly aiming for European spot. Therefore, this has been good transfer for side to reach that aim and he could show some good performance in his new team without doubt. Only issue could be adaptation but with him coming on early stages would lead him to solve this issue in short notice.

Therefore, Fatih Karagumruk did sign an important player who could help side to get some good performance for sure in upcoming season.

Top 3 Istanbul clubs try to convince Abdulkadir Bardakci to join him

Top 3 Istanbul clubs are currently trying to convince Abdulkadir Bardakci to be joining them as Konyaspor seems to be making deal with all clubs who does provide good offers but there seems to be issue with convincing player.

This of couse should be seen as Bardakci is currently looking for best offer where both financially and also possibility to develop will be most suitable for him and right now he is having on-going with Besiktas, Galatasaray and Fenerbahce with media stating that he did make deals in one point with all 3 clubs. Therefore, it does look to be an issue with which side would provide him best offer in this negotiation period. Positive note is that Abdulkerim Bardakci did start training at Konyaspor and keeps himself at good form in this period.

Issue as been noted of which side would give him best offer and we would follow how this story would develop.

In other news:

- Beko logo would be appearing at the back of Besiktas football for 2022-23 season.

- Fenerbahce pre-season friendly games has been announced:

- 02/07: vs Partizan

- 06/07: vs Mol Fehervar

- Sivasspor has extended contract with its player Samba Camara for 2-years.

 - Besiktas conditioner Miguel contract has been terminated.

- AdnanErkan has been appointed as Gaziantep sports director.

- Gaziantep has terminated contract with its player Dogan Erdogan.

- AdanaDemirspor has signed Badou Ndiaye for 3-years.

- Galatasaray head coach Okan Buruk has signed with his club for 2+1 year contract.

- Alanyaspor has terminated contract with its player Serkan Kirintili

- Kasimpasa has extended contract with its player Haris Hajradinovic until 2026.

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Sporting Lisbon player Jovane Cabral.

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Benfica player Joao Mario.

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Adana Demirspor player Matias Vargas.

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Federico Bernadeschi.

- FatihKaragumruk CEO Suleyman Hurma has stated that club doesnt consider to sell its player Emre Mor during this summer.

What happened in Turkish football today? 23/06/2022

Galatasaray has appointed Okan Buruk for 2+1 years.

Galatasaray has announced that it has appointed Okan Buruk for 2+1 years with 17 million TL salary during 1st season and 20 million TL during 2nd year as there is huge expectation from Buruk both from administrators and supporters.

As it is known, Okan Buruk has shown very strong career at Galatasaray and has been member of golden squad of 2000 and in addition did show some good performances as head coach including winning title with Basaksehirspor. Only question which exists with his capacity is that he didnt coach top level team until now, but as been noted he has shown that he is ready to take such an important role. With being also local coach also raises suitability of him joining side. Right now, Okan Buruk for sure would now need to fulfill his aim and making competitive side.

Okan Buruk has also potentiality to get some good result but without doubt he would need to do lots of changes to team during this summer.

Konyaspor transferred Erhan Erturk.

Konyaspor has signed goalkeeper Erhan Erturk as there is some strong expectations from him to show top level game as he is expected to be 2nd goalkeeper at the team.

Konyaspor as been noted does have an aim to build side which would continue its competitive performance during next season and focus into top spots in Super League and also at the Europe. Therefore, it does look ways how it could strength its goalkeeping position and hence did sign Erhan Erturk which does provide pretty good potentiality as player.

This has been good signing for player also as he would be to play and develop at the side which has high aims and potentiality.

Westerlo has loaned Ravil Tagir for 2-years.

Westerlo has Basaksehirspor loaned Ravil Tagir for 2-years as player is expected to show good performance and recieve more time at the Belgian side.

Ravir Tagil as remembered has been transferred to Basaksehirspor with high hopes but didnt recieve much of the playing time and hence him joining to Belgian side would help to develop as player as this side does provide lots of playing to potential younger players. Therefore, Ravir Tagil did make right choice to be joining Belgian side and could hence develop during this 2-year period.

Westerlo as noticed does focus into younger players development and would help Tagil to become better player in this 2 years.

What happened in Turkish football today? 22/06/2022

 

Hatayspor has signed Musa Cagiran and Cengiz Demir.

Hatayspor has made 2 crucial transfers as it transferred Musa Cagiran for 2+1 years and Cengiz Demir for 3+1 years and did make some strength for upcoming season without doubt.

It needs to be mentioned that Musa Cagiran has been one of the players who did play an important role for such successful season for Konyaspor on previous season while Cengiz Demir is playing player with high expectations without doubt. Hatayspor did start previous season with some high aims but didnt fulfill its epxectations even through there were times when it did show pretty good and confident performance. Hence, without doubt this summer it would be focussing more into transfers which would rise level of performance and hence this two transfers were made according to this.

Hatayspor hence did do 2 important additions but it does need to continue making similar transfers.

Westerlo loans Ravil Tagil for 1-season.

Westerlo has loaned Basaksehirspor player Ravil Tagil where player with high expectations could get important experience at the side which likely would give him opportunities.

Ravil Tagil without doubt is being among players who does have high aims in near future but due of other strengths and aims of Basaksehirspor might not getting enough playing time so it would be understandable for them to loan him to Westerlo which is known to play younger players and hence it would be also good deal for Tagil as he would be getting enough experience.

Hence, this being good transfer and would possibly lead for player to return to Basaksehirspor in much better strength.

Giresunspor signs Dogan Can Davas

Giresunspor has signed Dogan Can Davas, player who has shown good performance on previous season at Bandirmaspor and could be in good condition for Super League season.

Without doubt, Giresunspor would be focussing to be making side which would have better performance at Super League and even through Dogan Can Davas doesnt have top league experience he is being playing with high expectations and skills and does look for now as good transfer for Giresunspor. It would also lead player to try his chances in the top league and see his level of performance.

As been noted, this has been good signing for Giresunspor but it does need to get more for top level performance in upcoming season as current squad does have some absences.

In other news:

- Fenerbahce has drawn against Shkupi with 2:2 scoreline during pre-season friendly game.

- ChampionsLeague 2nd qualifying round 1st leg game between Dinamo Kyiv and Fenerbahce will be played on 20th July at 21:00 in Miejsk Stadium, Lodz, Poland.

- Besiktas has announced pre-season friendlies schedule:

-23/06: vs Wolverhampton 

- 26/06: vs Alaves

- 27/06: vs Sampdoria

- Giresunspor has signed Vefa Temel.

- Galatasaray has appointed Murat Bereket as corporate communication director.

- Galatasaray has announced that it has started transfer negotiations with coach Okan Buruk.

- Hatayspor are interested to transfer Antalyaspor player Cengiz Demir for 2+1 years.

- Giresunspor player Mehmet Umut Nayir went through medical checkup.

- Besiktas are interested to transfer PAOK player Mario Blanco.

- Genclerbirligi has loaned Basaksehirspor player Muhammed Emin Sarikaya

-Westerlo are interested to transfer Basaksehirspor player Ravil Tagil.

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Lokomotiv Moscow player Dmitri Barinov.

- Trabzonspor has terminated contract  Atakan Gunduz

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Familicao player Alexandre Penetra.

- Antalyaspor player Naldo has stated that he doesn't expect for his club to extend contract with him.

- Basaksehirspor are interested to transfer Sivasspor player Hakan Arslan.

- LeicesterCity are interested to transfer Giresunspor player Alexis Perez.

- Toulouse are interested to transfer Galatasaray player Mustafa Muhammed.

- Galatasaray will raise salary of its player Yunus Akgun 10 times from 80,000 TL.

- Hatayspor has made transfer deal with Werder Bremen player Michael Zetterer.

What happened in Turkish football today? 21/06/2022

Ali Koc has been elected as Clubs Union CEO.

Fenerbahce CEO Ali Koc has been elected as Clubs Union as it would be interesting to see how his reign would run since he has provided lots of criticism towards both Union and TFF.

Without doubt, Ali Koc has provided lots of criticism with some being right and some might not be to so, and now he has chance to show some support and provide some solutions to problems which he discusses lots of times. However, when finding solution to those problems he would need to work together both with TFF and other clubs, so should providing language which would be focussed more to finding solutions rather then criticising. Ali Koc has potentiality to achieve that but he needs to change tone.

Therefore, Ali Koc has an opportunity to find solutions to problems which he identified before that and time would show how successful he would be.

Fortuna Sittard signed 5-year contract with Burak Yilmaz.

Fortuna Sittard has signed Burak Yilmaz for 5-years among which 2-years would be as player and other 3 years at the technical staff member.

This contract also shows that Burak Yilmaz very likely would end his footballing career at the Fortuna Sittard during 2 years and also would start his coaching career in the same time as club has shown very strong trust towards of him. Meanwhile, Burak Yilmaz who has been criticised in his younger years for not going to Europe in earlier years of his career, has decided to end his career outside of Turkey. Burak Yilmaz even through does look tempo which he has shown as expected due of his age, still has strong potential to show top level game at the Dutch side.

With such contract Burak Yilmaz hence did secure his coaching career beginning as he would be able to get some good experience at Fortuna Sittard.

Standard Liege has declined Besiktas offer for Jackson Muleka.

Standard Liege are reported to be declining offer from Besiktas for Jackson Muleka as club shows strong interest towards him during this summer.

Jackson Muleka who has been loaned to Kasimpasa for half season in previous season and finding lots of goals, quite naturally has got lots of attention from number of clubs with also Besiktas but due of economical reasons needs to be careful with its offers. Hence, it has offered 2 million euro which it did found too low and it does look like team would need to raise if it wants to get him during this summer.

Besiktas likely to continue negotiations with Muleka and we would follow how it would be continue in our blog.

In other news:

- Alanyaspor has signed sponsorship deal with Roof Lounge for away supporters stand at Bahcesehir Kolej Stadium

- Trabzonspor player Ahmecan Kaplan agent Nejdat Ergezer states that player didnt recieve offer from Lille.

-Galatasaray will play 12 million euro for terminating contract with sports director Pasquale Sensible.

- Besiktas has made transfer deal with  Genclerbirligi player Ilkay Isler

- Fenerbahce are interested to trnasferBursaspor player Hamza Baran Arikan.

- Sivasspor are interested to transfer Ajman Club player Firas Ben Larbi.

- Eyupspor has made transfer deal with  Galatasaray player Alpaslan Ozturk.

- Umraniyespor and Ankaragucu are interested to transfer Abdulkadir Omur.

- Antalyaspor are interested to transfer Liverpool player Sheyi Ojo

- WestHamUnited are interested to transfer Feyenoord player Orkun Kokcu.

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Lille player Yusuf Yazici.

- WerderBremen are interested to transfer Fenerbahce player Mesut Ozil.

- 2 unnamed SaudiArabic clubs are interested to transfer Fenerbahce player Mbwanna Samatta.

- Besiktas has started transfer negotiations with Haris Seferovic and Marko Arnautovic.

- FatihKaragumruk are interested to transfer Juventus player Aaron Ramsey.

- Fenerbahce has made transfer deal with Konyaspor player Abdulkerim Bardakci

- Galatasaray has terminated contract with its head coach Domenec Torrent.

- Antalyaspor has made transfer deal with Omer Toprak.

- Umraniyespor are interested to transfer Wisla Krakow player Michael Skvarka.

What happened in Turkish football today? 20/06/2022

Besiktas has extended contract with its player Emre Bilgin for 3+1 years.

Besiktas has extended contract with its player Emre Bilgin for 3+1 years as he is being one of the most potential players who showed some strong performance in previous season and before that at club academy.

As been noted beforehand, one of the most crucial thing during this economically tough summer transfer period, it is important to keep player at its disposal as much as possible. With such performance Besiktas continues to invest to its own players with extending contract with Emre Bilgin. Even through Bilgin didnt get much playing time on previous season, he did show some crucial signs of being key player in the team and hence this trust has been shown with 3+1 extension contract as he could easier becoem general starting 11 in short notice.

Emre Bilgin hence is being playing with lots of potential and this extension shows how much trust team has towards him.

Hakan Ozmert has extended contract with Antalyaspor

Antalyaspor has extended contract with its player Hakan Ozmert who has been one of the key players during previous season for 1-year.

Hakan Ozmert has been taken leading role at the midfielding area during previous season and has played an important role for such rise of performance during 2nd half of the season and hence Antalyaspor aiming to keep him for upcoming season has been very important role. Reason for such short period of contract during of his age as he is getting into retiring age and its not clear how much he would continue playing. But still it is expected for Hakan Ozmert to continue showing top level game in upcoming season too.

With Hakan Ozmert having good connection with his club and is expected to show strong game.

Sivasspor signed Robin Yalcin for 1+1 years.

Sivasspor has signed contract with Robin Yalcin as player has returned to club after some period of time as he did show some good performance during previous seasons.

As been noted, Robin Yalcin did show some good performance in previous seasons at Sivasspor and still has strength to carry on showing such good performance once again in the club and hence this transfer for sure would be helping side both at Europa League and domestically at the team. 1+1 year contract also been good offer for him as it provides flexibility to both sides.

Hence, Sivasspor getting one of its good players in recent seasons would provided needed strength it would need for upcoming season.

In other news:

 - Fenerbahce will play pre-season friendly game against Tirana on 25th June.

- Kayserispor has appointed Cagdas Atan as club's head coach.

- Galatasaray has terminated contract with Pasquale Sensible. Meanwhile, team sports director Cenk Ergun has announced that he has made deal with new football director.

- AlWehdaFCMekke has signed Sivasspor player FaycalFajr for 2-years.

- Basaksehirspor considers to purchase Milan player Leo Duarte who plays 1.5 years as loan player.

- Besiktas are interested to transfer Charleoi player Ali Gholizadeh.

- Galatasaray considers to appoint Arda Turan as sports director assistant.

- Trabzonspor has made transfer deal with Aston Villa player Trezeguet.

- Fenerbahce and Galatasaray are interested to transfer Porto player Diego Liete.

- Irfan Saraloglu and Tugberk Tanrivermis is expected to become Okan Buruk assistant coaches at Galatasaray.

- Galatasaray considers to sell its player Bafetembi Gomis during summer transfer window.

- Besiktas are interested to transfer Watford player Philip Zinckernagel.

- Besiktas are interested to transfer Hellas Verona player Adrian Tameze.

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Dia Saba.

- AdanaDemirspor are interested to transfer Lonikos player Aias Aosman.

- Fenerbahce has stated that its not interested to transfer Anthony Nwakaeme.

- HullCity has made transfer deal with Fenerbahce player Ozan Tufan.

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Antalyaspor player Fernando Martins.

What happened in Turkish football today? 19/06/2022

Galatasaray likely to appoint Okan Buruk on 20th June.

Reports that Galatasaray has made deal with Okan Buruk for head coach appointmentment started coming out even more louder as there are reports that club would announce it on 20th June.

When Dursun Ozbek has been appointed as club's CEO, it was known that he was mainly focussed to appoint foreign coach but Okan Buruk has been number one candidate for this position. With foreign coaches requesting high amount of salaries and transfer conditions, it did make financially difficult to appoint foreign one and also could be risky due of adaptatition. With Okan Buruk being close to this team and also having some successful results among one league title does put him ready and favourite for this position. Okan Buruk has all potential to be successful in the club and could be ready to coach one of the top teams in country.

Hence, it is expected for his name to be announced as soon as Domenec Torrent contract would be terminated.

Besiktas and Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Anthony Nwakaeme.

It is reported that both Fenerbahce and Besiktas are interested to transfer Anthony Nwakaeme as player wants to stay in the Turkey.

With having strong connection with Trabzonspor but due of not making deal between sides, it is reported that Istanbul giants are showing strong interest with appointing player with Besiktas arleady offering 2 million euro as it would be interesting to see how Nwakaeme would respond to such offer as he declined 3 million euro offer from Trabzonspor. Fenerbahce are reported to be planning to provide even higher salary. Hence, it does look like fight for Anthony Nwakaeme could be pretty active between this two clubs. 

As always, our site would continue focussing into this storyline and report future of Nwakaeme in this summer. 

Artem Dzyuba wants to join Fenerbahce.

Reports that Artem Dzyuba joining Fenerbahce is getting stronger and stronger, as both parties are continuing negotiations.

It is known that Artem Dzyuba has left Zenit and currently looking for club outside of his country and looking warm to be joining Turkish club in this summer with continuing negotiations with Fenerbahce. Only issue here seems to be value of salary as both sides trying to find deal which would be satisfied by both sides. There is also possibility of Dzyuba considering to leave his previous club and country due of ongoing war with Ukraine, as he did show signs of being against Russian invasion with no war statement. In either case, it does look like for now Dzyuba considers to join Fenerbahce.

As always our blog would continue following this story during this summer.

In other news:

- Fenerbahce would be playing pre-season friendly game against Shkupi on 22nd June.

- Galatasaray and Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Braga player Diego Liete.

- FatihKaragumruk are interested to transfer Semih Kaya.

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Porto player Ruben Semedo.

- Sevilla are interested to transfer Fenerbahce player Kim Min Jae

- CagdasAtan has arrived to Kayseri for one-on-one negotiations with Kayserispor.

- Besiktas are interested to transfer Olympique Lyon player Jason Denayer.

- Basaksehirspor considers to offer extenstion contract to its player Emre Belozoglu.

- AdanaDemirspor considers to transfer Benfica player Adel Taarabt

- Besiktas has offered 3 million euro to Standard Liege player Jackson Muleka.

- Benfica are interested to transfer Trabzonspor player Ugurcan Cakir.

- Giresunspor are interested to transfer Fenerbahce player Arda Guler.

- Gaziantep head coach Erol Bulut has stated that team focusses to transfer winger, left back, midfielder and attacker.

What happened in Turkish football today? 18/06/2022

Trabzonspor are close to make transfer deal with Umut Bozok.

Trabzonspor are reported to be close to be making transfer deal with Kasimpasa player Umut Bozok who has been best goal-scorer of the previous season in the league.

Trabzonspor without doubt are continuing strengthening they side during this summer transfer window with making transfer deal with Kasimpasa player Umut Bozok as there has been strong interest towards player for pretty long time. Without doubt, for convincing player due of coming to the title holders and also Champions League football does play an important role as Umut Bozok would have an opportunity to show top level game in high competitive side. This would been hence deal which would lead both sides to move forward if it happens.

It is expected for deal to be announced in pretty short notice and our accounts would provide information about them for sure.

Galatasaray are close to make deal with Okan Buruk.

It is reported that Galatasaray are currently focussed to make deal with Okan Buruk as there are some important factors who play an important role for deal to be made with two parties.

With Okan Buruk being familiar and Turkish coach who arleady showed some successful performance including winning title with Basaksehirspor is playing one of the crucial role. With Okan Buruk stating before hand that he would be liking to work in this team does provide his intention also without doubt. In addition, high level of salaries and conditions which are coming from Marco Rose and Di Stefano also plays an important role for Galatasaray CEO Dursun Ozbek to feel cold for them. Therefore, it could be noted that club are being close to make deal with Okan Buruk in short notice.

However, in beginning it needs to make termination deal with Domenec Torrent which could be pretty tough task for management.

Besiktas are interested to transfer Luka Jovic.

One of the eye-catching transfer rumours of the day has been that Besiktas are interested to sign Luka Jovic.

With Luka Jovic showing strong and good performance at Eintracht Frankfurt as loan player and also being generally player with strong potential would hence provide strong addition to the Besiktas if it happens. Without doubt, it would also solve an attacking issue which it has went through and be also suitable for style of play which Valerien Ismael is seeking for. But it needs to be reminded that there is expectation for Jovic to have strong demand from clubs across Europe so Besiktas needs to be fast with negotiations with aware that it might spend some cash.

Our page as always would follow latest developments with this transfer talks and how it progresses.

In other news:

- TFF administrative board has made following decisions:

- Foreign players limit will stay as 8+3

- Team's spending limit devaluation would be accepted as 40%

- Nations League League C Group 1 5th week game against Luxembourg to be played at Basaksehir Stadium

- Trabzonspor are interested to transfer Fatih Karagumruk player Emre Mor and Besiktas player Cyle Larin.

- MbiayeDiagne wants to return to Galatasaray this summer.

- Rennes and Nantes are interested to transfer Trabzonspor player Flavio.

- Flamengo player Gabigol has declined Fenerbahce offer.

- Trabzonspor are interested to transfer Shakhtar Donetsk player Marlon.

- Alanyaspor are interested to transfer Denizlispor player Omer Sismanoglu.

- Sivasspor are interested to transfer Besiktas players Salih Ucan and Guven Yalcin

- Besiktas will have one-on-one transfer negotiations with Benfica player Gabriel Peres.

- Besiktas are interested to transfer Real Madrid player Luka Jovic

- Galatasaray has made transfer deal with Adana Demirspor player Mario Balotelli.

- Bodrumspor and Bandirmaspor are interested to transfer Batuhan Ahmet Sen.

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Waalwijk player Ahmed Touba.

- Besiktas are interested to loan Genoa player Caleb Ekuban.

- Giresunspor head coach Hakan Keles has stated that club interested to loan Trabzonspor players Diabate, Flavio and Galatasaray player Okan Kucuk.

What happened in Turkish football today? 17/06/2022

Besiktas has transferred Romain Saiss for 2+1 years.

Besiktas has signed Wolverhampton player Romain Saiss for 2+1 years with an aim for him to replace Domagoj Vida with who club didnt use extension contract, since Saiss is being strong defender.

Romain Saiss has played in different clubs during his career with providing strong and confident performance in the defensive position with providing confident game and also being strong with starting an attack. If he is able to show similar performance in defence game as he did at Wolverhampton he would not only replace Vida but would have potential to even top him in upcoming season. It also needs to be mentioend that current coach Valerien Ismael did want specifically to transfer Saiss as he is familiar with his performance in Championship and believes that he is being suitable for him at Besiktas.

This has also been 1st transfer for Besiktas during this summer and it looks to be one which would strengthen for next season but it needs to get some other players if it want to have good season.

Trabzonspor signs 3-players on openning day of transfer window.

Trabzonspor had pretty effective day at the openning day of transfer window as it signed Kasimpasa players Eren Elmali and Dogan Haspolat for 5-years and Jens Stryger Larsen for 3-years.

Trabzonspor as it is known is focussed to get back-to-back title in the league and also have successful season at the Champions League and to achieve this it needs to transfer some quality players who would strengthen side. Without doubt, all of those 3 transfers which happen in duration of the day would provide needed strength to the side with Eren Elmali and Dogan Haspolat being one of main players for Kasimpasa good season in previous season and also being familiar with league. With this transfer Trabzonspor shows that it aims to have successful season and now it would be important for those players to show great game in return. 

Trabzonspor did have good openning day of summer transfer window and for sure would be aimingto continue like this.  

Galatasaray ends contract with Pasquale Sensible.

Galatasaray has terminated contract with its sports director Pasquale Sensible as it was appointed by previous CEO Burak Elmas.

One of the events which are happening when new CEO and with him administration come into power, it pretty natural to change whole system and hence ending contract with Pasquale Sensible could be seen as natural and has been expected by Sensible. This also could be seen as another sign that Dursun Ozbek would be ending contract with Domenec Torrent in upcoming days. Dursun Ozbek is quite naturally is going through revision of whole side following unsuccessful season but it is important now to replace them with strong names.

As been noted, this could be seen as sign for replacement for Torrent as he is getting closer to announce new coach of the team.

In other news:

- TFF has announced that summer transfer window has started today and would last until 8th September in Turkey.

- - OscarOrtega has been appointed as Gaziantep assistant coach

- Hatayspor has terminated contract with its player Fatih Kurucuk

- Besiktas has extended contract with its player Emirhan Ilkhan for 3-years.

- Atalanta has used 20 million euro transfer option of Juventus player Merih Demiral.

- Besiktas has started transfer negotiations with Trabzonspor player Anthony Nwakaeme

- Trabzonspor has made transfer deal with Lorient player Umut Bozok.

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Trabzonspor player Anthony Nwakaeme.

- EintrachtFrankfurt CEO Markus Krosche: Right now Ridvan Yilmaz is far from being on level with Filip Kostic. We need him to get into team, there is no need to wait for something outstanding in short time. He would need time to adapt.

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Reims player Valon Berisha

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Lille player Xeka

- Trabzonspor are interested to transfer Fatih Karagumruk player Emre Mor.

- Besiktas are interested to transfer Jorgan Ighalo.

- Trabzonspor are interested to transfer Porto player Mbemba

- WoutWeghorst doesnt consider to be joining Besiktas during this summer.

- Besiktas are interested to transfer St Pauli player Daniel Kofi Kyereh- 

- Besiktas are interested to transfer Glasgow player Alfredo Morelos

- Nice are interested to transfer Norwich player Ozan Kabak.

- Brentford are interested to transfer Trabzonspor player Cornelius

- Konyaspor will start its pre-season training camp on 18th June in Konya where it would stay until 25th June. It would continue camp between 27th June- 7th July.

What happened in Turkish football today? 16/06/2022

Mehmet Buyukeksi has been elected as TFF CEO for 1-year.

Mehmet Buyukeksi has been elected as TFF CEO as he did run as single candidate during election since all other 8 members were not able to reach number of signaturies to be eligible to run into election but despite that he got 158 votes out of 209.

As it is known, some part of the club, with Fenerbahce being on leadership, did have some questions if Mehmet Buyukeksi is being best choice for this position as there is argument that he has some connection with FETO. Still, it needs to be mentioned that he did have some good performance during his stay at Gaziantep where he did play important role for side to be going ahead. Mehmet Buyukeksi which has been elected for 1-year, has promised to keep same distance from each club and promises to solve all of the issues which are present right now at Turkish football but it needs to be admitted that he has pretty difficult task on his hand. But his willingness for now to be solving this issue provides some hope for future.

Mehmet Buyukeksi is taking Turkish football at difficult condition and without doubt he would need to be getting support from other clubs in this league.

Trabzonspor has extended contract with Stefano Denswill for 3+1 years

Trabzonspor has extended contract with its player Stefan Denswill for 3+1 years as he did show some good performance in this title season and without doubt has played an important for side to become champions. 

Among making its side stronger, as Trabzonspor does so far during this summer transfer window, it would be also important without doubt for side to keep team strong for upcoming season with its current squad. With Stefano Denswill providing strong performance and also having some good connection with side without doubt did play an important role for such extension. It was also important to make such deal in the day when Anthony Nwakaeme has announced that he would be leaving side. 

Trabzonspor ahs made an important extension with its good player Stefano Denswill but now would need to make some transfers as it did with Jens Stryger Larsen and Eren Haspolat.

Conference League 1st league game between BATE and Konya will be played at Konya stadium.

Konyaspor has announced that it has made deal with BATE Borisov to play 1st leg of 2nd qualifying round Conference League at home ground despite its being an away game.

However, according to deal the game would be played without supporters and hence would not necessarily provide strong advantage to side even through it does not need to travel. It needs to be remembered that reason for this decision has been due of UEFA sanctions towards Belarussian clubs which doesnt let them to play at home ground due of supporting Russian invasion to Ukraine. Therefore, it would be seen as good opportunity to be playing at ground which it is familiar. In fact, it could be seen pretty surprising for BATE to agree on this but this could be related for side not to be willing travel between two legs. 

This could be seen as unexpected decision from UEFA and BATE, and it would be interesting how would Konyaspor use this advantage during this tie.

In other news:

- Ankaragucu has signed Kocaelispor player Dogakan Kaya for 4-years.

- TFF administrator Nuket Kucukel Ezberci has resigned from his Fenerbahce post.

- Trabzonspor has announced that it has started transfer negotiations with Kasimpasa players Eren Elmali, Dogucan Haspolat,Stefano Denswil and Jens Stryger Larsen.Meanwhile, Jens Stryger Larsen and Dogucan Haspolat will arrive to Istanbul on 16th June for one-on-one transfer talks

- Trabzonspor player Anthony Nwakaeme has stated that he is leaving club.

- Dogucan Haspolat has arrived to Istanbul for one-on-one transfer negotiations with Trabzonspor.

- TFF CEO Mehmet Buyukeksi: We are selling Turkish TV series to 140 countries, why we don't do same with football matches? We would work to achieve this.

- JensStrygerLarsen has arrived to Istanbul for one-on-one transfer negotiations with Trabzonspor.

- NottinghamForrest has changed its mind to transfer Besiktas player Cyle Larin.

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Kayserispor player Onur Bulut.

- Galatasaray CEO Dursun Ozbek has announced that new coach would be announced in few days time.

- Trabzonspor are interested to sign Shakhtar Donetsk player Marlon Santos.

- Trabzonspor has declined transfer offer from Hull City for Berat Ozdemir

- Galatasaray has started transfer negotiations with Olympiakos player Henry Onyekuru.

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Aston Villa player Bertrand Traore.

What happened in Turkish football today? 15/06/2021

Turkish National Team has ended its 4 game run with win against Lithuania.

Turkish National Team has completed Nations League June fixtures with successful note as been expected as it has won against Lithuania even through it needs to be noted that opponent did provide pretty good resistance.

Turkish National Team has continued its aim to score as much as it can during this 4 games period and not conceding any goals. Even through there were expectations for Turkey to score more than 2 goals, especially after beating same opponent away with 6 goals, it still managed to win game without conceding. It is true that Lithuania is not being opponent in level of Turkey, but it did show strong reaction to those games in positive manner and has shown full concentration and seriousness of the game, issue which been lacking at national side and also clubs when playing against weaker sides. Meanwhile, there must be given respect to Lithuania as they arrived to game on same day and travelled directly to stadium and has shown its best game which it could. 

Turkey hence did get 4 out of 4 as planned without much issues and would very likely get Group B ticket in next game against Luxembourg in end of September.

Fenerbahce will have very tough games against Dinamo Kiev despite of issues which opponent country is going through.

Fenerbahce has been drawn against Dinamo Kiev during Champions League 2nd qualifying round as there is expectation for two tough games coming up in July.

With being realistic, it needs to be mentioned that Dinamo Kiev are coming out as favourites as unfortunately Ukrainian sides tend to get positive results against Fenerbahce and Turkish clubs in previous meetings. Analysing purely on field issue, Fenerbahce could be seen to be favourite due of opponent country been under Russian invasion which lacked and continue to lack side to train effectively, but as been seen from World Cup play-off games and Nations League this war has provided even more motivation and fighting spirit and since Dinamo Kiev contains looks of Ukrainians, including many who were in national side it would be two tough fixtures.

Opponent might be at difficult war both militarily and psychologically, but this should not be seen as advantage for Fenerbahce at all.

Konyaspor are coming out as favourites against BATE.

Konyaspor would be playing against BATE Borisov at Conference League 2nd qualifying round as Turkish side has realistic opportunities to get to the next stage of the tournament.

For some, seeing BATE as name playing against Konyaspor might scare of, but it needs to be mentioned that this side which did surprisingly show strong game at Europe in late 2000's is very far from that level and Konyaspor with squad quality does have much more chances against Belarussian opponents. Konyaspor still needs to make some additions to squad this summer prior to 1st leg as current squad is not too bad but might not be enough for European football. Meanwhile, 1st leg fixture location is still unclear due of UEFA sanctions due of Belarus supporting Russia of its invasion to Ukraine.

Konyaspor does have good chance against BATE Borisov but it needs to prepare throughly to its opponent for sure.

In other news:

- Basaksehirspor spor has drawn against Maccabi Netanya at Conference League 2nd qualifying round

- Altinordu has transferred Ankaragucu player Erdi Dikmen for 3 million TL.

- Turkish referee Bahattin Duran and Tarik Ongun had retired from they post.

- - Ankaragucu has signed Gil Vicente player Pedrinho for 2-years.

- - Hatayspor has transferred Samsunspor player Recep Burak Yilmaz for 3-years.

- Antalyaspor has signed sponsorship deal with Arem Spor and Nike.

- Kayserispor has announced that it has made deal with Cagdas Atan for head coach position.

- Bruno has arrived to Istanbul for one-on-one transfer negotiations with Fenerbahce.

- Besiktas has announced that it would start pre-season training camp on 27th June.1st camp in Bad Hering, Austria between 5-16th July and at Alicante, Spain between 20-27th July. It have friendly game against Wolverhampton on 23rd July, later against Deportivo Alaves n 26th July

- Fenerbahce had its 1st pre-season training session.

- Hatayspor will start its pre-season training session in Erzurum on 23rd June, where it would stay until 24th July.

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Sassuolo player Kaan Ayhan.

- Istanbulspor head coach Osman Zeki Korkmaz has stated that main aim would be for club to continue working with academy players and stated there would be about 2-3 transfers this summe

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Botafogo player Erison.

- Giresunspor are interested to transfer Bandirmaspor player Dogancan Davas.

- Galatasaray are interested to loan Benfica player Florentino Luis

- Schalke04 are interested to transfer Besiktas player Ersin Destanoglu.

- Trabzonspor are interested to transfer Real Betis player Marc Bartra

- Fenerbahce player Kim Min Jae considers to leave club during this summer transfer window.

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Watford player Moussa Sissoko.

- FatihKaragumruk are interested to transfer Diego Costa.

- Besiktas has started transfer negotiations with Standard Liege player Jason Muleka.

- Besiktas player Josef de Souza has stated that he would like to apply for Turkish citizenship.

- Besiktas has announced that it has started transfer negotiations with Watford player Romain Saiss

- Galatasaray player Sacha Boey considers to leave side during summer transfer window.

- Besiktas spots director Ceyhun Kazanci: Wout Weghorst wants to play in our club, but one of his family members feel uncertain to live in Turkey.

- Umraniyespor are interested to transfer Ruud Boffin.

What happened in Turkish football today? 14/06/2022

Turkish National Team showed strong concentration against Lithuania

Turkish National Team has ended its June games of Nations League games with 2:0 win against Lithuania with providing strong and confident game while opponent looked to be much more resistant compare to previous game.

Turkish National Team has once again provided right mentally with looking for high positions and providing strong attacking game with showing positive game from players which without doubt has been main achievement both on this game and during this 4 game period. It needs to be stated that with Lithuania providing much strong resistance and organising game tonight, did let for Turkey to provide much more effort despite being favourites and hence has been shown condition of the national team even more than before, but this performance of opponent let side to provide much more effort and has shown that it is capable to do so. There were 4 games within 2.5 weeks which is without doubt has been difficult schedule but it has done in right direction with showing an economic game but same time an attacking time. It is true that Lithuania and other opponents are not in level of Turkey but there are lots of positivism notes which has been taken from game.

Lithuania meanwhile needs to be mentioned has provided much stronger game compare to previous week game which been mainly due of not conceding an early goal which led them to show much more confident game. Taking account that side did arrive to Izmir in daytime and travelled directly to game, it needs to get also respect for this performance.

Turkey most importantly ended this 4-game period without conceding and scoring 14 goals shows what kind of mental changes side has went through for this game with high concentration.

Fenerbahce has signed Lincoln Henrique for 4-years.

Fenerbahce has announced its first signing of summer transfer window of 2022 as it signed Santa Clara playe Lincoln Henrique as both head coach Jose Jesus and club has high expectations from him.

It is been reported that following transfer did come from strong demand from newly appointed referee Jose Jesus as he has been following and familiar with player performance in Portugal. It needs to be mentioned that Lincoln is also been familar with Turkish football as he did play as loan player at Rizespor in 2017 when side has been in lower division and did provide good performance during that period. 4-year contract and such insist it had towards him and Santa Clara shows that club is seeing strong potential with him and now it would be crucial for him to fulfill this expectation.

Jose Jesus meanwhile has other names in the list which he like to see at club and it is expected that club would do its best to sign them.

Fatih Karagumruk signs Emre Tintis.

Fatih Karagumruk has signed Emre Tintis from Galatasaray academy as he did become first signing of newly appointed coach Andrea Pirlo.

Emre Tintis it needs to be mentioned did show some confident and strong performance at the club academy and does have very high expectation and potential as the player and should be considering to be lucky working with Pirlo as such name would provide lots of experience and help player to develop which would be big help both to the Fatih Karagumruk and also Turkey. Being only 18 years old, he might not get lots of play time but still this move would be effective for both parties.

Andrea Pirlo does have high aims in the team and it would be interesting to see what other transfers we might be seeing from team during this summer.

Results:

UEFA Nations League, League C, Group 1, 4th week:

Turkey 2:0 Lithuania

Luxembourg 2:2 Faroe Islands 

In other news:

- Galatasaray administrative board has been announced:

- CEO: Dursun Ozbek 

- 2nd CEO: Metin Ozturk

- Assistant CEO: Niyazi Yelkincioglu, Ahmet Cemal Ozgorkoy

- General Secretary: Eray Yazgan.

- Fenerbahce has announced technical deal:

- Head coach: Jorge Jesus 

- Assistant coach: Joao De Deus, Tiago Oliveira 

- Athletic Performance Trainer: Marciao Sampaio, Carlos Bruno

- Match analyst: Gil Henriques

- Video analyst: Rodrigo Araujo

- Operation director: Mario Branco

Technical manager: Marco Aurelio.

- - Alanyaspor stadium Basaksehir Koleji Stadium one of the stands would be called Realtor Turkey due of sponsorship deal.

- Fenerbahce: Our club has made loan deal with PSV Eindhoven player Bruma.

- Sivasspor are going to open pre-season training camp on 26th June and will travel to Bolu on 28th June.

- - Basaksehirspor will start pre-season training camp on 23rd June. It would travel to Burdur where it would contain camp between 26th June-11th July.

- FatihKaragumruk administrator Serkan Hurma stated that club is waiting for support from government regarding of stadium issue.

- Galatasaray are interested to appoint Marco Rose as club's head coach.

- Trabzonspor are interested to transfer Pisa player Adam Nagy.

- FatihKaragumruk are interested to transfer Jose Sosa.

- Ankaragucu are interested to transfer Fluminense player Marlon Rodrigues.

- Fortuna Sittard are interested to transfer Burak Yilmaz.

-Ankaragucu CEO Faruk Koca: We have made deal with Gil Vicente player Pedrinho. He currently tries to solve issue with his club. Within 2 days I am expecting for transfer to be announced.

- CSKAMoscow player Georgiy Shennikov agent Sergei Pushkin: We recieved transfer offer from Fenerbahce for player.

- Konyaspor, Umraniyespor and Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Rizespor player Tarik Cetin.

- PAOK are interested to transfer Galatasaray player Olimpiu Morutan.

- Besiktas are interested to transfer Shakhtar Donetsk player Vitao.

- Juventus are interested to transfer Trabzonspor player Bakasetas.

- LeicesterCity considerst to offer 25 million euro for Fenerbahce player Kim Min Jae.

- Besiktas has made transfer deal with Ramadan Siobhi.

- Wolverhampton player Romain Saiss has arrived to Istanbul for one-on-one transfer negotiations with Besiktas

What happened in Turkish football today? 13/06/2022

Turkey aims to continue its strong performance against Lithuania.

Turkish National Team are going to complete Nations League campaign during June games against Lithuania in Izmir as it aims to rise its scored from 12 and continue its unconceded campaign.

A week ago, Turkey did play against Lithuania in Vilnius where it has won with 6:0 scoreline which has been most calm and confident win in this campaign so far. Playing at home, there is high expectation from Turkey as Stefan Kuntz without doubt did bring some discipline and positive thinking performance to the team. Lithuania even through never been strong football nation, it did have much better days in its own history with ending some qualifiying tournaments at 3rd spots and therefore its being not in best days which Turkey likely be using to its own advantages. 

Turkey once again is expected to dominate game possibily even scoring more than 6 goals to all respect to opponent without conceding.

Fatih Karagumruk has appointed Andrea Pirlo for 1-year.

Fatih Karagumruk has signed Andrea Pirlo for 1-year as club's head coach as side at first did gain very impressive deal with highly known and respected coach and previously player and contines to strength side with Italian connections.

One of the issues here which club might have though is that Andrea Pirlo is being hungry for high successes all the time and hence side aiming for highest spot to be 4th in the league could contradict with Pirlo as he is being winner both as player and coach. However, without doubt Pirlo knows and if not been explained that those aims being set by club and he did accept them. One thing is certain is that regardless how Fatih Karagumruk performs, it did one of the most biggest coaching appointments during this summer. 

Andrea Pirlo would also likely request number of strong and great players but it is not clear if Fatih Karagumruk can afford to sign them.

Fenerbahce made deal with Lincoln Henrique

Fenerbahce has announced that it has signed Santa Clara player Lincoln Henrique as player has arrived to Istanbul for signing contract.

Fenerbahce new coach Jose Jesus has been specifically demanding to transfer Lincoln Henrique due of being aware of his potentiality back in Portugal and with Lincoln wanting to work with coach and compete potentially at Champions League made such transfer easy. Taking account that Santa Clara CEO being Turkish man did make transfer negotiations easier for sure from Ali Koc. Another advantage is that Lincoln Henrique did play at Rizespor before and is being familiar with Super League.

With Jesus focussing mainly to Portguese players or ones who have some connection with there, this has been first signing for club during this summer transfer window with more to come.

Schedule:

UEFA Nations League, League C, Group 1, 4th week:

21:45 Turkey - Lithuania

21:45 Faroe Islands - Luxembourg

In other news:

- TFF CEO candidate Mehmet Buyukeksi has stated that Mehmet Sepil does consider to join his  administrative team if he wins elections.

- RomanSaiss will arrive to Istanbul on 14th June for one-on-one transfer negotiations with Besiktas.

- Sevilla considers to offer 12 million euro for Galatasaray player Marcao.

- Palmeiras has offered 7 million euro for Fenerbahce player Diego Rossi but club requests at least 10 million euro.

- AdanaDemirspor are interested to transfer Juan Mata.

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Porto player Mehdi Taremi and Botafogo player Erison.

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Lazio player Vedat Muriqi.

- Antalyaspor player Andrea Poli has send warning to club for not receiving his salary on time.

- AlNasr are interested to appoint Sergen Yalcin as club's head coach.

- SantaClara player Lincoln Henrique expects to arrive to Istanbul on 13th June for one-on-one transfer negotiations with Fenerbahce.

- Sassuolo are interested to transfer Galatasaray player Yunus Akgun.

- Ankaragucu CEO Faruk Koca: We did have talks with Danny Wellbeck but there are some demands from agent. It looks to be difficult transfer to be achieved. We are interested to sign 3-4 players.

- Giresunspor head coach Hakan Keles has stated that club needs to transfer 14-15 players during this summer transfer window.

- Kayserispor didnt make final deal with coach Omer Erdogan despite of having principal agreement between sides.

What happened in Turkish football today? 12/06/2022

Turkey got confident top spot at Nations League.

Luxembourg as expected did provide some difficult time to Turkish National Team during Nations League League C Group  1 3rd week game but it still managed to get 2:0 win and got closer to return to League B.

Even through Turkey did come out as favourites and only aim to win game, when looking at the standings it was possible most crucial game for the team as winner would get into top position and get important advantage for promotion to League B. It needs to be stated that Turkey did start game well with getting full control of attacking game not letting much for Luxembourg to create opportunities. To some extend it did show strong performance in defence but could been more creative in attack. Still, Turkey aim has been to score as much as goals as possible without conceding and its current goal difference is being 12 goals without conceding after 3 games. 

Turkey hence provides confident performance at Nations League as expected and would now focus to conclude June games with other confident among clean sheet against Lithuania.

Ridvan Yilmaz has left Turkish National Team squad due of injury.

Even through things without doubt looks great for Turkey during Nations League, there has been unwanted news from Ridvan Yilmaz who didnt play against Luxembourg and been taken away from squad due of injury.

There is nothing to be worried about as injury is not serious one and this taking away from squad to some extend could also see as for him summer starting earlier and also focus into negotiations with Eintracht Frankfurt where he expects to be joining in short period of time. Ridvan Yilmaz has been used in first two games as Stefan Kuntz does focus into younger players during training sessions. He did show good performance during this period and without doubt this national team camp has helped him to improve as player and rise his confidence. 

Ridvan Yilmaz hence did have great previous season and now would look forward for some Bundesliga football next season.

Dursun Ozbek has been elected as new Galatasaray CEO after close election.

Dursun Ozbek has been elected as Galatasaray CEO as he has been reigning this side between 2015-18 in period where he did get successful results at his side. 

It needs to be stated that election has been taken in very close race with Esref Hamamcioglu but there were expectation prior to election that it would be close one but Dursun Ozbek being closer for winning. With getting some experience and being respected name in the club did give advantage withotu doubt. In fact, he does have potential to make side closer and reduce gap which obviously at the club right now. He would also need to make decision regarding future of Domenec Torrent as head coach and choose new coach if he decides not to continue with him

Until now, focus has been who would be name to solve Galatasaray numerous issues, now task would be to find solutions by Dursun Ozbek.

In other news:

- Turkish referee Ali Palabayik will referee Nations League League B Group 1 game between Ukraine and Republic of Ireland.

- FatihKaragumruk has appointed Andrea Pirlo for 1-year as clubs head coach.

 - Konyaspor has made transfer deal with Yasir Subasi.

- Besiktas has raised offer to Altay player Kazimcan Karatas from 10 million TL+%10 share from next transfer to 15 million TL+%20 share.

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer West Ham United player Becir Omeragic.

- LokomotivMoscow are interested to transfer Trabzonspor player Ahmetcan Kaplan.

- Konyaspor head coach Ilhan Palut doesnt consider to sell its players Amir Hadziamehotivic and Abdulkerim Bardakci during summer transfer window.

- Gaziantep consider to sell its player Dogan Erdogan during summer transfer window after player has complained to TFF for not receiving salary.

- Fenerbahce has offered 700,000 euro salary to Santa Clara player Lincoln for 4-year contract.

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Bochum player Armela Bella Kotchup.

- Besiktas are interested to appointed PAOK player Jose Boto as club's sports director.

- Galatasaray are interested to appoint River Plate head coach Marcelo Gallardo.

- RedBullSalzburg are interested to transfer Besiktas player Ersin Destanoglu.

- MateosCasseira agent Nikolas Petroupolas has stated that Fenerbahce are interested to transfer player.

- Galatasaray are interested to appoint Fabio Cannavaro as club's head coach.

- Umraniyespor has made transfer deal with Bandirmaspor player Allyson for 1+1 years.

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Palmeiras player Rafael Navarro.

- Toulouse are interested to transfer Konyaspor player Amir Hadziamehotivic.

- Konyaspor CEO Fatih Ozgokcen states that club did recieve transfer offer for Abdulkerim Bardakci

What happened in Turkish football today? 11/06/2022

Turkish National Team continues not to concede goals as it played against Luxembourg.

Turkish National Team has got 3rd win at the Nations League League C 1st group 3rd week with getting all of the wins without conceding a goal as it did get 2:0 against Luxembourg and very likely got promotion to the league B in the half way of the group stage.

Prior to game, it was expected that Turkey would be coming out as strong favourite but that game would been much more tougher compare to Faroe Islands and Lithuania game, and this has ended up being case for Turkey for 90 minutes. Therefore, Turkey did play according to this as it shown much more patient game and tried to control balls Luxembourg could have provided more pressure into Turkey goal compare to other opponents in the group. Still, it was important for side morale not to concede goal for 90 minutes as Luxembourg did create some signs that it would provide an attacking game even through there is not serious opportunities. It is true that Luxembourg possibly didnt provide much pressure as been expected but this been o some part of good defensive. To some extend Turkey has also been tired from difficult schedule which Nations League is going through.

Luxembourg has been expected to be providing most difficult time to Turkey as it did come out also without losing game prior to this fixture, and it did look to be much more organised compare to Faroe Islands and Lithuania but still differences between sides.

Turkey continues its campaign at Nations League without conceding goals, and would now focus to Lithuania game as it would conclude Nations League June games on 14th June as it would aim not to concede in that goal.

Umraniyespor signs Geraldo for 1+1 years.

Umraniyespor has transferred Ankaragucu player Geraldo for 1+1 years and did strength their side for upcoming season with player which is familiar with side which he would be joining.

Geraldo in other words would be joining to one of the sides has been promoted to the Super League from another side and in fact would be joining from side which has ended 1 spot ahead of them. Even through some might not see such a transfer as strength as player does come from same league, it needs to be mentioned that Umraniyespor did have opportunity to follow player close as they come from same league on previous season and hence would be more easier to make transfer. Geraldo is being player with good potential as he did show in previous season at Ankaragucu and hence is expected to strength side for upcoming season at Umraniyespor.

Umraniyespor has made another transfer deal for upcoming season and needs to make more during this summer but it is on right track with decisions so far when looking at paper at least.

Eintracht Frankfurt has signed Ridvan Yilmaz for 6.5 million euro.

Eintract Frankfurt is reported to be making deal with Besiktas player Ridvan Yilmaz for 6.5 million euro transfer fee.

Ridvan Yilmaz has provided pretty strong and confident performance during previous seasons and been one of the impressive side which did perform pretty poorly at the league and Europe. Therefore, it should not be seen as big surprise for European clubs to be showing active interest to Ridvan Yilmaz. Eintracht Frankfurt has carried on negotiations with player since start of the summer and did make deal which without doubt would have satisfied as 6.5 million euro is pretty good value for Ridvan Yilmaz as higher might be too much for his value while this amount would satisfy Besiktas financially and also found replacement for him. 

This also without doubt would be good opportunity for Ridvan Yilmaz to provide some strong performance at Europe as he has all potential to show good performace at Eintracht Frankfurt. 

Results:

UEFA Nations League, League C, Group 1, 3rd week:

Faroe Islands 2:1 Lithuania

Luxembourg 0:2 Turkey

In other news:

- DursunOzbek has been elected as Galatasaray new CEO with 2,208 votes out of 4,459.

- Besiktas are interested to transfer Kasimpasa player Eren Elmali.

- Milan are interested to transfer Fenerbahce player Kim Min Jae.

- Besiktas are interested to transfer Nice player Kasper Dolberg.

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Olympiakos player Pepe.

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Mechelen player Vinicius Souza.

- SantaClara CEO Ismail Uzun: Fenerbahce has offered great offer for Lincoln. We would make final decision after club board meeting. They offered good value+some players+share from next transfer.

- UEFA has announced that referee for Nations League League C Group 1 4th week game between Turkey and Lithuania will be Stephane Frappart.

- EintrachtFrankfurt has made transfer deal with Besiktas player Ridvan Yilmaz for 6.5 million euro+%20 share from next transfer.

- Besiktas has offered 10 million TL + 10% share from next transfer to Altay player Kazimcan Karatas.