What happened in Turkish football today? 23/07/2023

Murat Akin has resigned as Fatih Karagumruk sports director

Fatih Karagumruk sports director Murat Akin has resigned his spot after long period of being present at such position and bringing high number of strong with good career players especially from Italy.

As it is know after Fatih Karagumruk has been promoted to Super League some years ago, club has managed to transfer some important players especially from Serie A which led them to get some good results and become one of the sides which it been pleasant to follow at in the league. Murat Akin at sports director has been one of the reasons why this transfers did happen as he did have some good connection with Italy.

Without doubt, Fatih Karagumruk would be seeking to carry on continuing good performance with improvement in future and to achieve that it would need another good sports director which it would look for.

Hoffenheim makes deal with Atilla Szalai

Hoffenheim has made transfer deal with Fenerbahce player Atilla Szalai as player did show some strong performance at defence in the team and has become one of the most watched defenders while being in the club.

When Atilla Szalai has been purchased, he has been seen both as player who would be able to show some good performance on the field and also be potential good sale and it needs to be stated that he did achieve both in his stay at Fenerbahce as he provided an important strength at defence especially playing with Kim. Hoffenheim has been among clubs which did show some strong interests towards him and did provide good offer at which Fenerbahce who did get some good defenders, could also build on in this summer transfer window.

Atilla Szalai did mark an important place in the club and would be expected to carry on similar at Hoffenheim while Becao and Djiku would be focussed to take his place.

Sanliurfaspor loans Muhammet Arslantas.

Sanliurfaspor has loaned Basaksehirspor playworder Muhammet Arslantas for 1-year as player would be expected to get some playing time and get some experience at lower league.

Muhammet Arslantas is being seen as player with good potential in upcoming future but due of current squad in the team, it would be hard for him to get some playing time on the field and hence his move to Sanlurfaspor would help him to get some time and hence experience and return to Basaksehirspor in much ready form. This move would be good winning conditions, as Sanliurfaspor did loan player which would help to achieve some successes at lower league.

Hence, this move would be welcomed by everyone and in fact provides important investment to player for his future.

In other news:

- Galatasaray has signed CedricBakambu for 2-years

-Galatasaray has made transfer deal with PSG player Mauro Icardi for 10 million euro transfer fee of 3-year contract.

-  CrystalPalace player Wilfried Zaha has arrived to Istanbul for one-on-one transfer negotiations with Galatasaray.

- Basaksehirspor has won pre-season friendly game against Al Markhiya with 3:1 scoreline

- Samsunspor are interested to transfer Galatasaray player Taylan Antalyali.

- Nantes are interested to transfer Trabzonspor player Eren Elmali.

- Besiktas has offered loan deal with Milan player Ante Repic with offering salary of 2.5 million euro to player.

- Fenerbahce considers to loan its player Bartug Elmaz to team where he would receive lots of playing time

- Samsunspor has made transfer deal with Ayoub El Kaabi.

 - Basaksehirspor has made transfer deal with Galatasaray player Emre Kilinc.

- Sivasspor are interested to transfer Gedson Rodrigues.

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Villarreal player Giovani Lo Celso.

- Besiktas are interested to transfer Liverpool player Alex Oxlade Chamberlain

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Atletico Madrid player Saul Niguez.