What happened in Turkish football today? 10/07/2024

Tolga Zengin Gani will not run as TFF CEO candidate.

TFF CEO candidate Tolga Zengin Gani has announced that he would not run at CEO election and would be supporting Servet Yardimci who currently looks to be among popular candidates to become new CEO of TFF.

Tolga Zengin Gani it needs to be mentioned hasnt been seen among strong candidates in upcoming election and didnt recieve lots of coverage from Turkish sports media and therefore such move from him has been expected and he would be showing his contribution in election to support Servet Yardimci who due of his previous statuses at UEFA and generally stance does look to be strong candidate for CEO election and hence such support from Gani has been seen as expected to be.

Even through there is high number of candidates for CEO election and it could be mentioned that race would like to be taken place between current CEO Mehmet Buyukeksi and Servet Yardimci.

Eyupspor terminates contract with its player Murat Ucar.

Super League new-comers Eyupspor has terminated contract with its player Murat Ucar as team doesnt consider to play him for long period likely that it doesnt see  him at the level of Super League.

As all newcomers, Eyupspor during this summer transfer window are focussing into making strong and competitive side for upcoming season and one aim to achieve this also selling players who are not at that capacity and will not be able to play. Therefore, it has terminated contract with Murat Ucar who would now be looking for side where he would be able to get more playing time and get lots of playing time to develop as player.

Therefore, such move is being an effective won and would be good development for all parties in future plans.

Fortuna Sittard signs Onur Demir for 2+1 years

Fortuna Sittard has transferred Alanyaspor player Onur Demir for 2+1 years as club does see lots of potential with player in upcoming seasons.

It would need to be mentioned that Onur Demir did show some confident performance at Alanyaspor in previous season and has been among key players at the team and hence it should be surprise that Fortuna Sittard has shown some strong performance. Now it would need to be mentioned that Onur Demir would need to show some strong performance at Fortuna Sittard and possible let him to go even further at Europe if he shows good performance.

This is being good opportunity for Onur Demir which he would need to fulfill during his stay at Fortuna Sittard.

Schedule:

UEFA Europa League, 1st qualifying round, 1st leg:

20:00 Ruzemberok - Tobol(winner of this tie will play against Trabzonspor at 2nd qualifying round of Europa League)

UEFA Conference League, 1st qualifying round, 1st leg:

21:45 La Fiorita - Isloch (winner of this tie will play against Basaksehirspor at 2nd qualifying round of Conference League)

In other news:

- TFF CEO Mehmet Buyukeksi has decided to run at CEO election

- - TFF has accepted CEO candidacy of Servet Yardimci.

- Fenerbahce has lost pre-season friendly game against Hajduk Split with 1:0 scoreline.

- Trabzonspor has won pre-season friendly game against Szegad Czanad with 2:1 scoreline.

- Rizespor has announced pre-season friendlies:

- 14/07: vs. Shakhtar Donetsk

- 20/07: vs. Klagenfurth

- 23/07: vs. Kryvbas

- 27/07: vs. Nice

- Eyupspor has terminated contract with its player Murat Ucar.

- BorussiaDortmund are considering to sell its player Salih Ozcan.

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Nordsjaelland player Adamo Nagolo.

- Rizespor are interested to transfer Fenerbahce player Umut Nayir and Serdar Aziz.

- Galatasaray head coach Okan Buruk has stated that Michy Batshuayi would be as forward among another player.

- Fenerbahce has made transfer deal with Al Ahli player Allan Saint Maximin.

- Besiktas are interested to transfer Fenerbahce players Samet Akaydin, Rade Krunic, Ryan Kent, Miguel Crespo and Edin Dzeko.

- Sivasspor are interested to transfer Markao.

- OlympiqueMarseille are interested to transfer Galatasaray player Abdulkerim Bardakci.

- Antalyaspor CEO Sinan Boztepe has stated that club would lift transfer ban in the end of July and there are negotiations with 4-5 players currently

- Fenerbahce has offered 15 million euro to Sassuolo player Armand Laurente but club requested 20 million euro.

- CDCastellion has made transfer deal with Goztepe player Kenneth Obinna Mamah.

- Sakaryaspor has made transfer deal with Fenerbahce for Emre Demir.