What happened in Turkish football today? 13/07/2022

Besiktas player Serdar Saatci presumed comment about weather might be fake.

An issue with Besiktas player Serdar Saatci taking away from squad, has been actively discussed as Saatci has presumably stated in interview that he did play game at high temperature.

It needs to be mentioned however that following statement has been declined from his father while club has stated that it doesnt believe that statement has been made from him. It needs to be mentioned that Saatci statement to Turkish newspaper regarding him playing at 39.7 degrees and feeling unwell could not be true as Turkish media is known to make up news and in addition Besiktas will not allow player to play in such health conditions. It does look like an issue is connected with how Saatci acted when being substituted.

Therefore, such decision to take away from squad is being justifiable even if player will not happy about it.

Fenerbahce terminates contract with Mesut Ozil.

Fenerbahce has announced officially that it has terminated contract with its player Mesut Ozil as he is close to make transfer deal with Basaksehirspor.

Even through there were rumours that Fenerbahce did terminate contract with Mesut Ozil, officially statement has been made today as there were lots of factors which parties were not satisfied with and Jorge Jesus not having plans with him in near future. Therefore, this decision has been expected as player makes deal with Basaksehirspor according to reports as transfer deal would be expected to be made at short notice.

Mesut Ozil did join Fenerbahce with high expectations but didnt manage to fulfill them in previous seasons due of injury.

Besiktas has ended transfer talks with Emrecan Uzunhan

Besiktas has failed to make transfer deal with Istanbulspor player Emrecan Uzunhan due of demands with player even through its been reported that sides did make deal during previous comments.

Besiktas has been eager to sign Emrecan Uzunhan to the team without doubt as it did see him as potential star to the team and generally to Turkey but has failed to make transfer deal between sides due of high demands which has been set with Emrecan Uzunhan. According to reports, Besiktas did close door with him right now but it would be interesting to see how it would respond in upcoming period.

Therefore, Besiktas has ended talks with Emrecan Uzunhan for time being as player likely to return to Istanbulspor for time being.

In other news:

- Galatasaray has lost pre-season friendly game against MOL Fehervar with 1:0 scoreline.

- Istanbulspor has lost pre-season friendly game against Sakaryaspor with 1:0 scoreline.

- Fenerbahce has signed Tiago Cukur for 4-years.

- Fenerbahce has signed Joshua King for 2-years.

- - Goztepe has signed Fenerbahce player Ugur Kaan Yildiz

- Flamengo player William Areo has arrived to Istanbul for one-on-one transfer negotiations with Fenerbahce.

- Gaziantep has made deal with Montpellier player Ambroise Oyongo

- Antalyaspor are interested to transfer Kontrijk player Faiz Selemani.

- Besiktas didnt make transfer deal with Istanbulspor player Emrecan Uzunhan.

- HullCity are interested to transfer Antalyaspor player Luiz Adriano.

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Rangers player Ryan Kent.

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Internacional player Carlos Pena.

- Bodrumspor has signed Hatayspor player Abdurrahim Canli.

- Fenerbahce has made transfer deal with Cagliari player Joao Pedro

- Kayserispor has released licence of its player Ali Karimi

- Konyaspor are interested to transfer Alexandre Pato.

- Fulham and Nottingham Forrest are interested to transfer Lille player Yusuf Yazici.

- AdanaDemirspor will play pre-season friendly game against Napoli on 27th July.