What happened in Turkish football today? 22/12/2023

Besiktas players seems to be in big decline psychologically.

Besiktas as it has been noted has continued its decline with its performance in the league during this season this time losing to Alanyaspor with 3:1 scoreline which to some extend has been unexpected outcome. Meanwhile, following the game head coach Riza Calimbay has been sacked.

Besiktas performance in recent weeks has shown even more decline as with new CEO Hasan Arat being elected to position, rather then being a solution to the team has been even more, with reasons of this would be discussed lower in the blog. Coming to the game, it needs to be mentioned that main reason why it conceded such simple goals has been due of lack of concentration towards end of the game and also possibly of lack of self-belief at the players. Besiktas try to play good game and some players does show some good-willingness but the issue seems to be mentally at the team and it doesnt look it would be solved anytime soon. 

Hence, Besiktas decline with performance is being continued right now and its time for team to start finding solutions rather than focussing into problems.

Trabzonspor aims to provide good game against Basaksehirspor

Trabzonspor would be coming to the last game of the calendar year of 2023 against Basaksehirspor as without doubt it would be aiming to end season at high note and possibly give some optimist for 2024.

Both sides are showing performing way below there was expecting, even through both sides does show some improvement in recent weeks. It also needs to be mentioned that even through Trabzonspor directly was involved in the incident, it did come out from Istanbulspor which brought another scandalous actions and hence it would be interesting how mentally players would be able to respond. With playing at home Trabzonspor are favourites but there would need to show some creative game at attacking game which it still not at best form.

Trabzonspor are favourites when looking at form but Basaksehirspor would aim to give some issues to  team.

Besiktas acts on problems dramatically but doesnt find solution to it.

Besiktas CEO Hasan Arat administration up to now is seems to be identifying issues and providing dramatic actions regarding it but so far it didnt much show any solutions to this issue. As saying goes, its easy to break but difficult to build, and this seems to be case.

Besiktas so far has identified one of the reasons of decline with performance with 5 players who believe dont give their best performance so they decided to put them out of squad. With poor performance of Riza Calimbay during 5 games it also identified an issue with coach and has ended contract with him even through it was going to end automatically on 27th December. With Calimbay statements it also  clear that way he has been sacked has been done in unprofessional manner. Right now, Besiktas is failing to come out with strong squad due of injuries and this 5 players who are out of squad and will also be without coach at least for game against Hatayspor. Besiktas are currently in crises and chaos and it does seem like current administration is making issue more problematic.

Besiktas seems to be identifying issues and acting upon on that but doesnt provide any solutions of them. Longer it continues to do so bigger chaos and issues at team would arise for sure. 

Schedule:

Turkish Super League, 18th week:

13:30 Sivasspor - Istanbulspor

16:00 Fatih Karagumruk - Gaziantep

19:00 Trabzonspor - Basaksehirspor

In other news:

- CAS has approved 2 transfer ban to Samsunspor.

- Besiktas has been referred to PFDK for behaviour of fans.

- Ankaragucu has send request to arbitration committee to reduce fines and bans it recieved from PFDK regarding incident during game against Rizespor.

- Besiktas player Alex Oxlade Chamberlain will not be able to play for 4 months due of injury.

- Besiktas under-19 coach Serdar Topraktepe will be taking place of caretaker coach.

- Trabzonspor has announced that it would be decided if its player Abdulkadir Omur injury condition on 23rd December.

- Fenerbahce player Edin Dzeko has resumed training session after recovering from injury.

- Besiktas are having negotiations with Andre Breitenreiter for head coach position.

- Besiktas are interested to transfer Isparta 32spor player Alp Tutar.

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Dinamo Minsk player Dusan Bakic.

- Galatasaray has send request to RB Leipzig to raise transfer option of Angelino loan deal from 20 games to 22.

- Trabzonspor player Nicolas Pepe has recovered from injury.

- Trabzonspor are interested to transfer Adana Demirspor player Younes Belhanda.

- Besiktas are interested to appoint Sergen Yalcin and Slaven Bilic as club's head coach.

- Fenerbahce will got to arbitration committee regarding fine given to its player Fred.

- Besiktas are interested to transfer Fatih Karagumruk player Can Keles.

- Fenerbahce considers to sell its player Mert Hakan Yandas during mid-season transfer window.

- Villarreal are interested to transfer Besiktas player Eric Bailly.