What happened in Turkish football today? 02/11/2023

Galatasaray are coming out as favourites against Kasimpasa.

Galatasaray would be meeting with Kasimpasa during Super League 11th week as it would be aiming to continue its undefeated run and continue its winning streak in the league to 10 weeks and hence as would be expected is coming out as favourite.

Even through Galatasaray are continuing to winning, it does have decline of performance when looking from previous season at the league and hence very likely will be aiming to show strong and dominant game against Kasimpasa but opponent could be difficult to achieve that as it would be aiming to show strong defensive game and focus into counter-attacks which could prevent for Galatasaray to create many chances. Despite of ongoing injury of Mauro Icardi, it is reported that he would be coming out to game once again with needle with self-willingness and hence this once again would put him as favourite to score goal as he does in last games.

Galatasaray will
be coming out as favourite with also playing at home but it would need to find ways how to overpass strong opponent defensive game.

Besiktas signs professional contract with Yakup Arda Kilic until 2027

Besiktas has signed contract with its player Yakup Arda Kilic until 2027 as player has become one of the eye-catching players during previous week against Gaziantep despite being 18-years old.

Yakup Arda Kilic without doubt has got unexpected opportunity to show his level of performance as his teammate Rachid Ghezzal did become injured in previous game against Gaziantep. 18-year old did come out into field and did show some confident performance and helping his side to create chances and in overall did get good overview from both club and media. Hence, with such good performance from player, club administration has honored him with extending  professional contract to 2027. It would be now important for side to continue him giving playing time on the field and give him confidence and time.

Hence, this has been an important contract deal as this would also expected to be last signing of current administrative team before CEO election.

Fenerbahce interested to sign Serdar Saatci

Fenerbahce are interested to sign Braga player Serdar Saatci to overcome defensive issues as it has currently lots of injuries at defence including Becao, Serdar Aziz and those injury recovery process might be taking for some time.

With Fenerbahce aiming to get title in this season and as team didnt lose single game so far during this season, it does have some serious absences at defence line and hence it would be aiming to solve that with mid-season transfer window. It is reported that Braga player Serdar Saatci who does show good perfromance at Portuguese side and did previous in Besiktas could be good candidate with him being Turkish player is also being an important advantage without doubt.

Hence, it does look this would be one of the main transfer targets during mid-season transfer window and we would follow all latest developments on matter.

Results:

Turkish Cup, 3rd round

Sivasspor 4:0 Hopasspor

Gaziantep 4:0 Efeler 09

Konyaspor 3:0 Erbaaspor

Kayserispor 4:0 Igdir 

Schedule:

Turkish Super League, 11th week:

20:00 Galatasaray- Kasimpasa

In other news:

- PFDK decisions:

- Adana Demirspor, Pendikspor, Besiktas has recieved 112,000 TL fine for events on field.

- Kayserispor trainer Oguzhan Arslan has recieved 2-game ban and 39,000 TL fine for anti-sportmanship actions

- Pendikspor player Erdem Canpolat has recieved 39,000 TL fine for anti-sportmanship actions

- Pendikspor, Rizespor has recieved blockage of stands due of behaviour of fans.

- Galatasaray has recieved 192,000 TL fine for events on field and behaviour of fans.

- Galatasaray will rise salary of its head coach Okan Buruk from 20 million TL to 50 million TL in extension contract.

- AstonVilla are interested to transfer Besiktas player Semih Kilicsoy.

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Molde player Emil Breivik.

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Rizespor player Emirhan Topcu, Alanyaspor player Furkan Bayar and Nottingham Forest player Scott McKenna.

- Galatasaray has declined an offer from its player Sacha Boey agent for salary of 2 million euro.

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Braga player Serdar Saatci.

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer River Plate player Pablo Solari.