What happened in Turkish football today? 14/07/2022

Basaksehirspor signs Mesut Ozil for 1+1 years.

Basaksehirspor has signed Mesut Ozil after 1 day when his contract has been terminated with Fenerbahce despite of fact that he did state that he would end contract at Fenerbahce.

After such statemement from Mesut Ozil, it does raise some questions into signing contract with Basaksehirspor in such short notice and could be seen more like to provide some pressure to Fenerbahce during such process. It needs to be mentioned however that Basaksehirspor has been eager to transfer Mesut Ozil one day and did use its opportunity effectively with connecting with player and his agent as soon as his contract has been over with Fenerbahce. Meanwhile, there is still questions if Mesut Ozil would be able to provide performance which everyone had awaited from him at Basaksehirspor.

Still, Basaksehirspor did use its opportunity in effective manner and could possibly show some promising game  at new club.

Fenerbahce signs Willian Arao for 2+1 years.

Fenerbahce has signed Flamengo player Willian Arao after having long and intense transfer negotiations with player which Jorge Jesus has been eager to get as soon as he joined side this summer.

It needs to be mentioned that Willian Arao is being player with high expectations and promises at Fenerbahce as he did show some good performance at Flamengo and did show some rise of performance while Jesus has been at team so both are going hand-in-hand and being familiar. Hence, even through Arao did join for club outside of South America for 1st time, he would be expected to get adapted to team at short notice and provide some good performance at Fenerbahce with Jesus.

Hence, this been strong and effective transfer to Fenerbahce as player would been expected to show high level performance for sure. 

Adana Demirspor signs Arda Okan Kurtulan

Adana Demirspor has signed Fenerbahce player Arda Okan Kurtulan as being young player he is expected to improve his performance as most of youngsters do especially when having coach like Vincenzo Montella.

Arda Okan Kurtulan is playing with high expectations and hence him joining side which does have some aims for upcoming season and also having some potential would for sure let him to become even better player in upcoming season. Hence, being at the club which would let him to develop at the upcoming season. Therefore, this has been right movement both for Kurtulan and also Adana Demirspor.

With being high potential player, he would be expected to continue his strong performance and develop as player at Adana Demirspor.

In other news:

- Gaziantep player Marko Jevtovic has become injured.

- Trabzonspor has won pre-season friendly game against MTK Budapeste with 2:1 scoreline.

- Antalyaspor has won pre-season friendly game against Bodrumspor with 2:0 scoreline.

- Gaziantep has drawn pre-season friendly game against Neftci Baku with 0:0 scoreline.

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Bordeaux player Mbiaye Niang.

- Fenerbahce has made extension deal with its player Altay Bayindir for 4-years and 2 million euro.

- Basaksehirspor are interested to transfer Michy Batshuayi.

- Sevilla and Villarreal are interested to transfer Sassuolo player Mert Muldur.

- Ajax are interested to transfer Trabzonspor player Ahmetcan Kaplan.

- Sivasspor are interested to transfer Fenerbahce player Filip Novak.

- Sivasspor are interested to transfer Galatasaray player Aytac Kara

- Rennes has made transfer deal with Fenerbahce player Kim Min Jae for 18 million euro.

- JoaoPedro agent will have one-on-one negotiations with Fenerbahce on 16th July.

- Flamengo are interested to transfer Fenerbahce player Diego  Rossi.

- Ankaragucu has signed Marlon Xavier for 2-years.

- AdanaDemirspor has signed Galatasaray player Ali Yavuz Kol for 2+2 years.