What happened in Turkish football today? 09/06/2023

Turkey has announced its squad for game against Latvia and Wales.

Turkish National Team squad has been announced prior to Euro 2024 qualifiers against Latvia game on 16th June and Wales game on 19th June as been expected it did mainly consist of players playing outside Turkey.

As it is known, Turkish National Team is taking those qualifying campaign very seriously as it has set an eye to compete at Euro 2024 and did make a pretty competitive squad which also includes Eyupspor player Umut Nayir who has shown outstanding performance during his loan period at Umraniyespor at recent compeleted Super League season despite of side being relegated and did deserve on that squad. It needs to be mentioned that role of attackers needs to be taken into extra effort as there would not be Cenk Tosun due of injury he got against Konyaspor.

Turkey will start its
training camp on 11th June as team would have two tough games where it would be aiming for 6 points for sure.

Memik Yilmaz has been elected as Gaziantep CEO.

Gaziantep has elected Memik Yilmaz as newly elected CEO would have a difficult season as he would aim to make a competitive side after devastating earthquake on 6th February as it did had damages as far as it didnt complete previous season.

With some of the destruction happening in Gaziantep during this earthquake, club would be aiming to get back into strong mentality starting from pre-season training camp and it would be important for Yilmaz to provide such motivation and confidance mentally and financially without doubt and he would be likely seeing for some financial support from outside as team would be going through difficult period where it would need to get back on its feet once again.

Hence, Memik Yilmaz does have difficult task which he willingly took by winning this CEO election.

Rizespor has made principal deal with Ilhan Palut

Rizespor has made principal deal with Ilhan Palut as club's new head coach who does have some good experience with Super League teams especially mediocre teams and has all good experience in this level.

Rizespor in upcoming season without doubt would be to keep at top division and it needs to be mentioned that he did show some good performances at Gaziantep on previous season but has been sacked from that position in unexpected manner few weeks before earthquake. Getting pretty modest squad and also some economically suitable players during upcoming summer transfer window, Palut has also reasons to get some good outcomes for this team.

Taking account that he is being among names which are been available, Ilhan Palut has been good choice for team for next season.

In other news:

- Besiktas player Cenk Tosun will not be able to play for 6-weeks due of injury.

- Giresunspor CEO Nahid Ramazan Yamak has send request to TFF to lift relegation in this season.

- Arbitration Committee has lifted 104,000 TL fine from Besiktas head coach Senol Gunes.

- Trabzonspor players Arif Bosluk and Taha Altikardes had an operation.

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Partizan player Nemanja Jovic.

- Trabzonspor are close to make transfer deal with Southampton player Mislav Orsic and Dinamo Zagreb player Bruno Petkovic.

- Rizespor has made prinicpal deal with Ilhan Palut for head coach role.

- Roma are interested to transfer Trabzonspor player Ugurcan Cakir.

- Valencia has signed 5-year deal with Olympique Lyon player Cenk Ozkacar.

- Fenerbahce are interested to appoint its operation director Mario Branco as its sports director.

- Trabzonspor are interested to transfer Ankaragucu player Ali Sowe.

- NottinghamForest are interested to transfer Trabzonspor player Ugurcan Cakir.

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Atalanta player Merih Demiral.

- Benfica are interested to transfer Feyenoord player Orkun Kokcu.

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Liverpool player Konstanitos Tsimakas.

- Besiktas are interested to transfer Brentford player Halil Dervisoglu.

- Eyupspor are interested to transfer Pendikspor player Adrien Regattin

- Hatayspor has started transfer negotiations with Partizan player Massanga Matondo.