What happened in Turkish football today? 24/06/2024

Dogan Alemdar has become injured at national team training sessions.

Turkish National Team 3rd goalkeeper Dogan Alemdar has become injured during training sessions and has been replaced instead with Muhammed Sahnezar in the training camp.

It needs to be mentioned that chances for Dogan Alemdar to be recieving playing time to all respect towards player would be slim when looking at goalkeeper list above him and hence this would not provide too much stress tactically but would provide some reduction of mood towards players for short time. However, this injury has been added to long list of injured players and does show that even through intense training sessions need to be taken it needs to go through as Turkey likely to progress at Euro 2024, it needs to be careful with injury players to get some successful results.

As been noted hence this injury will not be seen as too much worry to Vincenzo Montella but does provide some questions of work by medical staff members.

Arda Guler didnt play against Porgual for precaution reasons and it has been agreed with both sides.

With crucial game against Czech Republic coming up there has been lots of criticism towards Vincenzo Montella who didnt play Arda Guler against Portugal even through there are reports that there is no issue between player and coach.

According to reports, Arda Guler did feel some pain in his leg and didnt attend training session and even through MR has been returned clean from medical team, it was decided by Vincenzo Montella not to risk player and has been agreed with player. Media which includes video of Montella taking away training shirt from him and giving to Yusuf Yazici has been highly criticised but this things does happen and Guler didnt train with trainer seperately. 

With injury not being reported serious, it would be expected for Guler to start against Czechs and if team get result which it seeks for and player would score all this tension would be reduced.

Istvan Kovacz would referee Turkey and Czech Republic game

Referee of Czech Republic and Turkey has been appointed Romanian referee Istvan Kovitz who has shown some top performances in recent years and is being seen as one of the top referees currently.

It needs to be reminded that Turkey would need to get at least 1 point at the game and hence it would be expected for them to provide controllable game with Czech Republic being one who would be risking as their currently have 1 point. This would affect into  game but Kovacz does have good experience to manage such crucial games and expected to make fair results for both sides even under pressure.

Kovacz is being top level referee and should be able to provide performance which would not affect too much criticism after 90 minutes when looking his capacity.

Schedule:

UEFA Euro 2024, Group D, 3rd week:

19:00 France-Poland

19:00 Holland-Austria

(Winner of this group will play against 2nd place of Group F)

In other news:

- Samsunspor and Kayserispor has recieved 2-period transfer ban from UEFA.

- Bodrum has signed Levski Sofia player Zdravko Dmitrov for 3-years.

- IgdirFK has transferred Eyupspor player Adrien Regattin for 2-years.

- Fenerbahce had its 1st pre-season training session.

- Kayserispor has extended contract with its player Carlos Mane for 2+1 years.

- Wolverhampton Wanderers, Crystal Palace and Leeds United are interested to transfer Bright Osayi Samuel.

- Besiktas has ended transfer negotiations with Rangers for Ridvan Yilmaz as their found 5 million euro transfer fee too high.

- Besiktas considers to offer 3 million euro for Union Berlin player Sheraldo Becker.

- Besiktas are interested to appoint QPR academy chef Antony McElhone to technical staff.

- Trabzonspor has started transfer negotiations with Anthony Nwakaeme, Borna Barisic, John Lundstram, Denis Dragus and Ozan Tufan.

- Galatasaray considers to offer 18 million euro + bonuses to Real Betis player Johnny Cardoso.

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Olympique Lyon player Sael Kumbedi.

- Goztepe interested to sign Alanyaspor player Umit Akdag who has been loaned to team last season.

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Sassuolo player Armand Lauriente

- Celtic are interested to transfer Fenerbahce player Dominik Livakovic.

- Trabzonspor has made transfer deal with Standard Liege player Cihan Canak for 3-years.

- Trabzonspor has made transfer deal with Olympique Lyon player Samuel Gigot.

-  Besiktas are interested to transfer Roberto Rodriguez.

- Zenit has made transfer deal with Besiktas player Gedson Fernandes.

- BornaBarisic and John Lundstram has arrived to Trabzon for one-on-one transfer negotiations with Trabzonspor.