What happened in Turkish football today? 21/04/2023

Trabzonspor continues its ineffective performance.

It would be entirely wrong to provide any blame for loss against Sivasspor towards Trabzonspor head coach Nenad Bjelica where team has lost with 4:1 game and all blame should be given to players who didnt give game seriously.

It needs to be mentioned that even through it has been at the end of the game, Trabzonspor players did provide strong confidence and motivation playing like team where they are at against Besiktas but it needs to be questioned why similar performance wasnt visible at game against Sivasspor. With finding an early goal and also red card, it could have provided much more stronger willingness but apart of losing game, it didnt provide much reaction towards game. Meanwhile, it needs to be mentioned that with taking account that Trabzonspor will not play game for week and half,it would be more reasonable to appoint Nenad Bjelica after one day of Sivasspor game, in other words, today as he would have more time to get used to team and figure out its capacity.

Trabzonspor hence likely would end this season at low note and Bjelica for rest of the season would identify strengths and weaknesses for upcoming season.

Besiktas could lose motivation for game against Umraniyespor.

Besiktas would be playing against Umraniyespor after 1 week off, as it being 10 points behind Galatasaray with an extra game and hence are being far away from league title as it would meet last place Umraniyespor.

Besiktas still has mathematically chances for title, but when looking at realistic manner it could be stated that it did lose its chances after drawing with Trabzonspor but still has some chances for 2nd spot. Besiktas needs to be note also provided poor performance against Trabzonspor on previous game and this could be seen as game to get its chances. Event through it does come as favourites, Umraniyespor should not be undergraded and would be coming to very important game for them and hence could be more focussed when game starts.

Besiktas would be aiming to get wins back-to-back but with getting further from top 2 spots would affect its motivation for this game.

Galatasaray has 2 offers to Norwich for Milot Rashica

Galatasaray are reported to offer 7,500,000 euro to Norwich City to purchase its loaned player Milot Rashica or alternatively offer a loan with transfer option.

It needs to be mentioned that Milot Rashica has become one of the key players at the team especially during recent games and does play an important role for Galatasaray to be main favourite at title race, and hence it should be seen quite naturally for Galatasaray to be showing such willingness towards player. With player wanting to stay in the team, it does also have an important upper hand and it would be interesting to see how Norwich City would respond. Meanwhile, for team able to promoted to Premier League would also play key role at final decision.

It does look like one of main prioritites in upcoming period for Galatasaray to keep Rashica at team and we would follow all developments in our account.

Schedule:

Turkish Super League, 31st week:

19:00 Umraniyespor-Besiktas

In other news:

- Ankaragucu has been referred to PFDK for events on field.

- Besiktas are having negotiaons with Russian, English, South Korean and Kazakhstan companies for sponsorship of stadium name. Club is close to make 20-25 million euro deal.

- Galatasaray has raised bonus for each win in the league to 6 million TL.

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Wolverhampton player Mario Lemina.

- Udinese are interested to transfer Besiktas player Amir Hadziahmetovic.

- Alanyaspor are interested to appoint Cagdas Atan as club's head coach.

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Southampton player Mislav Orsic