What happened in Turkish football today? 05.09.2016

Turkey gets an important draw against Croatia at World Cup qualifier.

Turkish National Team has started its campaign for the World Cup qualifier with an important draw against Croatian National Team as it is being one of the main rivals at the group and also taking account that it was played in Zagreb.

The game itself was pretty slow paced, as would been expected with no supporters being present at the game due of the ban, however both sides did create number of dangerous attacks with Croatia getting around 4 posts during the game. Interesting part is that the goals has came from set pieces with penalty kick by the Rakitic and great free-kick goal from Hakan Calhanoglu, both goals coming at the end of the 1st half. It does need to say that this squad, which contained much younger players compare to Euro2016 game against Croatia, even through was not perfect did provide better performance and gives some hopes for qualifying in general despite of poor performance at friendly game against Russia. It does need to say that no supporters also went into hand for Turkey as it is certainly slowed down tempo of Croatia which would been faster if fans were present.
It needs to state that with those circumstances Croatia did show good football and does show it would be hard one to beat as a team. It did create dangerous attacks but with good skills from Volkan Babacan and also help of the posts Turkey got this important draw.

Turkey has got a point from one of the important rivals at the group and it would play its next game in Konya against Ukraine which is certainly is among main rivals, among Croatia and Iceland for top 2 spots at group. Taking great positive from them on 6th October could put Turkey into advantage place at early stage of the qualifiying.

Akhisar Belediyespor has appointed Tolunay Kafkas as head coach for 2 years.

Akhisar Belediyespor has announced that it has appointed head coach Tolunay Kafkas as its new head coach for 2 years after firing its previous successful coach Cihat Arslan. It does need to be stated that it would be hard job for Kafkas to fulfill successes shown by Arslan.

According to the rumours earlier at the week, it became clear that Cihat Arslan has been fired due of the his connection with the FETO organisation which is as known has led to massive clean-up at the different organisation around the Turkey following attempted coup d'etat on 15th July. It is therefore easy to assume that Tolunay Kafkas has no connection with the FETO or at least it is not known at the public. Kafkas meanwhile is also coming to the club which has very high aims for upcoming season and aims to get European spot for next season therefore he has lots of things to do and expects to provide great results as the season develops.

Tolunay Kafkas has been spend his career as head coach in most of the Super League teams but always been at the mediocre teams and to some extend Akhisar Belediyespor is among them but taking account that it would aim for top 5 position, it would be interesting to see how he would achieve that.

FFP has led big clubs to use cash more smartly and effectively.

One of the main advantages of the Financial Fair-Play regulation from UEFA is that it has led for big 4 teams to spend much less amount of cash at the transfer which their used to and even through in start of the summer it looked an issue, it had instead become positive thing for those teams.

As big 4 teams still aimed to become strong as side, their went into loaning quality players and hence saving cash and making their team stronger. In fact, their been so successful at saving cash that now their have much more cash for winter transfer window and summer transfer window than their would  in normal circumstances. From announcement from Galatasaray administrator Levent Nazifoglu, club has saved 14 million euro from last summer while Fenerbahce according to media has saved 23 million euro. This cash could be used very effectively at midseason and next summer and could help them still stay at the regulation of FFP. Even through numbers of saved cash has not been reported for Besiktas and Trabzonspor, its easy to say their did save cash especially Besiktas who dont have expensive players like Jose Sosa and Mario Gomez anymore.

Saving cash and using loan way of obtaining players did good thing for big teams in Turkey and has led to save high number of cash without probably affecting negative to the transfer window.

Results
World Cup 2018 Qualifier, Group I, 1st week: 
Croatia 1:1 Turkey
Ukraine 1;1 Iceland
Finland 1:1 Kosovo

Schedule
Turkish Cup, 1st round:
14:30 Orduspor - Turk Metal Kirikkalespor
14:30 Arakli 1961spor - Yomraspor
14:30 Serhat Ardahanspor - Duzyurtspor
14:30 24Erzincanspor - Musspor
14:30 12 Bingolspor - Dersimspor
14:30 Elaziz Belediyespor - Igdir Arasspor
14:30 Van Buyuksehirspor Belediyespor - Kurtulanspor
14:30 Batman Petrolspor - Diyarbakirspor
14:30 Cizrespor - Hakkarispor
15:00 Karaman Belediyespor -  Tarsus Idmanyurdu
15:00 Kirhanspor - Kozan Belediyespor
15:00 Sarayonu Belediyespor - Kilis Belediyespor
15:00 Nevsehirspor - 68 Aksaray Belediyespor
15:00 Ankara Adliyespor - Erbaaspor
15:00 Corum Belediyespor - Bartinspor
15:00 Ankara Demirspor - Yeni Amasyaspor
15:30 Halide Edip Adivarspor - Catalspor
15:30 Silivrispor - Edirnespor
15:30 Kartalspor  - Maltepespor
15:30 Beylerbeyispor - Sancaktepe Belediyespor
15:30 Tekirdagspor- Bayrampasa
15:30 Sultangazispor - Sultanbeyli Belediyespor
15:30 Darica Genclerbirligi - Golcukspor
15:30 Derincespor - Sakaryaspor
15:30 Duzcespor - Kocaelispor
15:30 Yesil Bursa - Karacabey Birlikspor
15:30 Dardanelspor - Orhangazispor
15:30 Kutahyaspor - Denizli Buyuksehir Belediyespor
15:30 Tire 1922spor - Utas Usakspor
15:30 Manisa Buyuksehirspor Belediyespor - Muglaspor
15:30 Kizilcabolukspor - Altay
15:30 Kemerspor 2003 - Payasspor
15:30 Manavgatspor - Erzin Belediyespor
15:30 Afjet Afyonspor - Yozgatspor 1953

In other news: 

- Besiktas CEO Fikret Orman: We didnt yet contact to FIFA or UEFA. We asked documents from Fiorentina for Mario Gomez.We expect for documents to be arrived next week. I informed to Sevilla we dont sell Oguzhan Ozyakup.

- Galatasaray administrator Levent Nazifoglu: We had saved around 14 million compare to last year summer transfers. We spend 60 million euro.We have saved 5 million euro. We made great deal with some players.

- Alanyaspor has terminated contracts with its players Akeem Latifu, Darvydas Sernas and Oleksandr Kaplienko.

- Galatasaray player Luis Cavanda recovery from injury is reported to go fast.

- Bursaspor players Deniz Yilmaz and Furkan Ozcal has attended to seperate training due of ongoing injury.

- Galatasaray: Our player Kolbeinn Sightorsson has went through successful operation at minuscule and would be able to discharge tomorrow.

- Besiktas player Oguzhan Ozyakup and Tolga Zengin has resumed training sessions after recovering from injury.

- Besiktas: Our player Aras Ozbiliz is currently is injured and recovery process by our medical team has started.

-Galatasaray player Fernando Muslera is reported to be not too serious and he will play against Paraguay in Uruguay team.

- SwissNationalTeam head coach Vladimir Petkovic: I wished Gokhan Inler told me beforehand about transfer from Leicester City to Besiktas.

- Galatasaray plans to invest 2 million euro for Didier Drogba school project in Cote d'Ivoire.

What happened in Turkish football today? 04.09.2016

Turkey is expected to have hard time against Croatia at World Cup qualifier opener.

Turkish National Team will start its campaign for the World Cup 2018 qualifiers in very tough away game against Croatia which is country needed to be stated is in a better condition compare to Turkey and it is certain that Croatia would be coming as much more favourites.

Croatian National Team did show that as a team is in good condition and has also provided great game against Turkish National Team at the Euro2016, where it has won with 2:0 scoreline. Taking account that players like Hakan Balta, Caner Erkin and most importantly Arda Turan are not taking to the squad, Turkey is expected to be having a tough game even through it is good chance for Fatih Terim to see current situation of the youth players which can become long-term household names at the national team. One of the main advantages for the game is the fact that game in Croatia would be played without supporters due of ban recieved by UEFA which could make game in more equal condition.

Turkish National Team is going through big revision as been mentioned several times at the blog and its good opponent to see how ready for the qualifying round with one of its main rivals Croatia.

If Galatasaray did transfer Diarra it would lead to big issues at the club.

Galatasaray administrator Levent Nazifoglu has stated why the transfer negotiations with Lassana Diarra didnt work out emphasising his salary demands and surprising demands which could damage their UEFA agreement.

Galatasaray has agreed to keep total salary of the squad as 65 million euro with an agreement with UEFA and by recieving such a target it is likely to not get punished again. However, as administrator of a team Levent Nazifoglu has stated if their did sign Lassana Diarra it would overpass that target.

He stated that Diarra has demanded very high salary and had requested for expensive apartment and cars. Apart of passing its target, Nazifoglu has stated that an agreement could raise an issue at the team as some players would see it as unfairness with those salaries. In other words, if Lassana Diarra did join it might create internal issues which surely team doesnt want at the season where it aims to fight for league title.


Fenerbahce is making full revision of style of play in national team break.

Fenerbahce are creating new team with its newly signed players and appoiting new head coach Dick Advocaat which surely has brought new motivation at the team.

 For instance, it is been reported that Advocaat has been travelled to Holland with number of CDs from Fenerbahce performance for this and last season where each player has been analysed and found strongest sides of each player. This analysis could hence make team even more effective with each player playing its strong strength and bring lots of changes to the style of play and starting 11 at the game against Bursaspor at the Super League 3rd week game. This could provide better image of kind of game which Advocaat would bring for this season.

It became clear that Dick Advocaat has also expected some time for adaptation of players and new system and expects for a team to start performing at the 5th week of the Super League.

Schedule:
World Cup 2018 qualifier, Group I:
21:45 Croatia - Turkey
21:45 Finland-Kosovo
21:45 Ukraine-Iceland

In other news:

- Karabukspor has drawn friendly game against Giresunspor with 0:0 scoreline.

- Akhisar Belediyespor has made principal agreement with head coach Tolunay Kafkas as his appointment to club head coach.

- Besiktas player Aras Ozbiliz has become injured during World Cup Qualifier 2016 game between Denmark and Armenia.
- Turkish National Team player Enes Unal has become injured during today's training session.
- Rizespor has won friendly game against Hopaspor with 4:2 scoreline.

- World Cup qualifier 2018 game between Ukraine and Kosovo scheduled on 9th October could be played in Turkey or Bulgaria, since Ukraine doesnt recognize Kosovo as indepedendent state.

- Besiktas player Anderson Talisca: I didnt want to leave Benfica but this is life, nothing was in my hand.

- Galatasaray player Kolbeinn Sighorsson became injuredduring Iceland National Team preparation to game against Ukraine at World Cup Qualifier 2016

- Galatasaray plans to offer 5 year salary to its player Bruma with increase of salary from 1,200,000 euro to 2,000,000 euro.

- Bursaspor player Tomas Sivok expects to be ready for Super League 3rd week game against Fenerbahce.

- UEFA has announced that referree of the Turkey and Croatia game at the World Cup Qualifier will be Szymon Marciniak.

- Bursaspor will play friendly game against Al Attihad on 6th September.

- Galatasaray player Serdar Aziz expects to be starting in starting 11 regularly after national team break.

- Galatasaray has gained 18 million TL from shirt sponsorships in duration of the season.

- Fenerbahce are considering to fine its player Robin van Persie due of lack of physical readiness.

- AlJaish are interested to transfer Galatasaray player Selcuk Inan.

- Trabzonspor head coach Ersun Yanal is expects to provide big changes for Super League 3rd week game against Osmanlispor.

- Fenerbahce player Fernandao is expected to recover from his injury late October.

- Besiktas head coach Senol Gunes didnt approve transfer of Antalyaspor player Samuel Eto'o as he was worried to lose performance of Oguzhan Ozyakup.

- Galatasaray considers to loan its player Martin Linnes either in mid-season and next summer transfer window.

- Galatasaray plans to sell its players Sabri Sarioglu, Hakan Balta, Hamit Altintop and Selcuk Inan in midseason transfer window.

- Galatasaray are interested to appoint Orgryte player Johan Elmander as youth team coach.

- Fenerbahce player Volkan Demirel is considering to become head coach of team after ending career and takes foreign language courses.

- Galatasaray would request to lift the ban from UEFA as it has fulfilled its aim to not overpass 65 million euro players salary condition.

- Fenerbahce head coach Dick Advocaat is reported to go over team's performance CD to recognize weaknesses at the team.

- Besiktas is planning to transfer defender during midseason transfer window.

What happened in Turkish football today? 03.09.2016

Fenerbahce would try to get result without classical 10 shirt.

As it is known during summer transfer window Fenerbahce main aim was to transfer classic 10 players at the field however it didnt manage to achieve that despite of the intense negotiations both with the Hakim Ziyech and Youness Belhanda.

Without succeeding at transferring one of the main players who would play an important role at the starting 11 the team still believes that it can achieve a great success at this season and still fight for league title and have successful season at the Europa League. To achieve that it doesnt however to work as team and raise importance of players at the midfielders such as Alper Potuk and Semih Ucan who needs to go forward during the game. This is achievable but difficult case however it was achieved previously by some teams including Fenerbahce and it is mainly important to create play at the midfielders where their would go both back and forth.

It would be hard season for Fenerbahce but it has forward thinking head coach and nice squad so it is achievable aim.

FFP has helped big 4 teams to save cash.

It does look that the main role of this season, especially with Besiktas and Fenerbahce would be played by ex-players such as Atinc Nukan in Besiktas and Moussa Sow at the Fenerbahce who have main returned to the regulations of the FFP.

Financial Fair-Play which has been set by UEFA did bring lots of issues to the teams which led them to focus at the minumum transfers with minumum amount of cash which was main reason for such high numbers of the loan contracts around Turkish clubs. The clubs even have made so impressive amount of transfers did in fact spend less cash mainly due of the fact of those loans. Players which were loaned include such as Anderson Talisca, Moussa Sow, Nigel de Jong among others and in fact most of the clubs are going with strong squad after transfer window. So it did have very good transfer window in whole Turkey taking account with circumstances which clubs were at.

This FFP situation has allowed to save cash and make great transfers and so the teams has become stronger and saved cash for future transfer windows.

Turkish National Team game against Croatia would help to identify all negative aspects 

Turkish National Team will start World Cup 2016 qualifier would be played against Croatia being strongest opponent at the whole Group I and also the team which has been met with Turkish National Team for very long time and is being the biggest opponent for them since Euro 2008.

The game would be very intense and will be played without fans due of the ban which has been recieved by Croatian National Team due of behaviour of the fans at the Euro2016 game against Czech Republic. As been stated, before hand Turkish National Team meanwhile didnt look very promising at the game against Russian National Team at the friendly and didnt create lots of the chances during the game. So it does need to create lots of chances but of course with the different weather conditions, as it was humid and hot at the Antalya, Turkey might provide more active but it could be very tough game as Croatia does look to be more at the form.

Turkey is going through new beginning due of poor performance at the Euro2016 and game against Croatia should be able to remind once again biggest issues which team has currently.

In other news: 

- UEFA has announced that observer of the World Cup Qualifier 2018 between Malta and Scotland will be Turkish observer Murat Ilgaz.

- UEFA has announced referee of the World Cup Qualifier 2018 between Albania and Macedonia Turkish will be Huseyin Gocek.

- Kasimpasa win Republic Cup with 1:0 scoreline bu winning against Rizespor.

- Osmanlispor has won training game against Osmanlispor U21 team with 4:1 scoreline.

- Bursaspor has won friendly game against Balikesirspor with 3:1 scoreline.

- Adanaspor has won friendly game against Sanliurfaspor with 3:0 scoreline.

- Konyaspor has won friendly game against Eskisehirspor with 1:0 scoreline.

- Galatasaray has won friendly game against Boluspor with 1:0 scoreline.

- Besiktas has won friendly game against Gaziantepspor with 3:0 scoreline.

- Akhisar Belediyespor has lost friendly game against Bandirmaspor with 1:0 scoreline.

- Galatasaray has made sponsorship deal with Permolit from which it would gain 1,000,000 dollars.

- Fenerbahce player Volkan Demirel: We made some fans and administration sad for our results. But we would be better now with new players.

- TurkishNationalTeam player Ahmet Oguz has become injured during today's training session.

- Fenerbahce player Jeremain Lens will not be able to play at Europa League 1st week game against Zorya as he has yellow cards ban from 2014-15 season with Dinamo Kiev.

- Fenerbahce player Josef De Souza expected to stay at the team until winter transfer window.

- Turkish National Team players will start with Tolga Cigerci and Gokhan Tore against Croatia on World Cup 2018 qualifier on 5th September.

- Antalyaspor were interested to transfer Galatasaray player Hamit Altintop this summer.

- Basaksehirspor player Emre Belezoglu might be joining Fenerbahce during winter transfer season.

- Fenerbahce player Moussa Sow is expected to start at starting 11 during Super League 3rd week game against Bursaspor.

- Beijing Guoan player Burak Yilmaz has loaned villa at Antalya with family for Turkey and Russia game but left early as he wasnt selected.

- Following summer transfer window Galatasaray average age has been from 27.5 years to 26.5.

What happened in Turkish football today? 02.09.2016

Akhisar Belediyespor has fired Cihat Arslan with reports that he is involved with FETO.

Akhisar Belediyespor has announced that it has terminated contract with its head coach Cihat Arslan which surely has been seen as shocking and surprising decision as Arslan has provided a nice period and performance with many successes with a club.

However, there is strong rumour going around Turkish media that reason for this termination is lying to the connection of Cihat Arslan with FETO terrorist organisation which is reportedly has organised coup d'etat on 15th July. As it been known, right there is strong cleaning from FETO members around every organisation at the Turkey. It needs to state however, at the sportive and performance view, that Akhisar Belediyespor, whatever are reasons for termination, will find hard way to find good coach right now who would be capable to make same results and it would be shame if Akhisar Belediyespor will have downfall at this season just because their pretty successfull head coach Cihat Arslan was involved with the FETO and is main reason for his resignation.

The effect of the FETO to the footballing world has lots of effect and changes after failed coup and it does look like that it will carry on affecting it.

Besiktas has good team but is it strong enough for Champions League? 

After summer transfer window has been over one of the biggest eyes and expectation is currently put into Besiktas due of Champions League season it has and also that skeleton of the team has been drastically since their 2nd week game against Kasimpasa.

Today there was big event of presenting to the public its new 8 signed players with an announcements made by Besiktas CEO Fikret Orman basically stating that he is hoping that team would become stronger and number players who are been loaned, namely Caner Erkin and Vincent Aboubakar, is open for an option to sign them and their could both to stay at the team for 4 years in total. It does need to say that Besiktas does look as stronger team with pretty good level players from foreign players and Turkish players. It is strong enough for Super League but still its pretty questionable if its in level of Champions League and how those names would fill spaces left by Mario Gomez and Jose Sosa but as usual time would provide answers to this questions.

Besiktas as usual is having high hopes for this season but it is certain that even fans are not highly hopeful for this season compare to previous one.

Trabzonspor will have transition season this year.

It is known that Trabzonspor is seeing this season as a transition season and doesnt have high aims and hopes and doesnt aim for league title with its main aim being winning title next season, when it will celebrate its 50th year, where it would aim for league title.

It does need to say that team has tried to mainly to strength their team with foreign players and compare to last season their are stronger. However, this team would surely have lots of time for adoptation for the Super League and as Trabzonspor CEO Muharrem Usta has stated this season would have high number of ups and down as season goes on and fans should be aware that team is not fighting for league title. Its all about patience in this season for a team and building league contenders for next season and to achieve that it does need to aim for European spots for next season.

Trabzonspor does have great vision but for it to happen it should manage this season in much better way than it did last season and if it achieves that we might see strong and title contenders next season.

In other news:

- Konyaspor will play friendly game against Eskisehirspor on 3rd September.

- This year Republic Cup will be played between Kasimpasa and Sivasspor on 3rd September

- Galatasaray will play friendly game against Boluspor in 3rd September.

- Basaksehirspor will play friendly game against Umraniyespor on 3rd September.

- TFF has ended relations with classification representative Kubilay Akgun and Nezih Abanoz, observer Aziz Batmaz and referees Arif Koroglu and Aydin Yarar.

- Alanyaspor friendly game against Al Mina which was scheduled on 3rd September has been cancelled

- Malaga sports director Francesc Arnau: There is an option to purchase Besiktas player Denis Boyko for 4 years at the end of season for 6 million euro.

- Bursaspor: The general meeting of the club will take place on 9th September as it didnt fulfull majority on today's meeting.

- GermanFootballFederation has send documents to TFF stating that Tolga Cigerci can play for Turkish National Team.

- Turkish National Team player Emre Mor:Before big games I always chew gum and I forget to throw it before national anthem.I apologize for this

- Trabzonspor plans to offer around 1.4 million euro salary to its player Mehmet Ekici for contract extension.

- Antalyaspor vice-CEO Bora Terzigolu: This event with fans happened in 2nd week of Super League we didnt accept such harsh decision.

- Turkish National Team has arrived to Zagreb for World Cup Qualifier 2018 game against Croatia on 5th September.

- Besiktas player Gokhan Gonul injury is not serious and he can play against Karabukspor during 3rd week of Super League.

- Bursaspor player Tomas Sivok has resumed training sessions after recovering from injury.

- Fenerbahce is planning to use its player Alper Potuk at the midfield during games.

- Fenerbahce head coach Dick Advocaat has observed that there is no system among players and he tries to solve this issues as soon as possible.

- Konyaspor CEO Ahmet San: We had made good transfers in last few years. Proof of that is successful season and fact that our 8 players were selected to 6 national teams for World Cup 2018 qualifiers.

- Akhisar Belediyespor are interested to appoint ex-Mersin Idman Yurdu head coach Mesut Bakkal as club's head coach.

- Besiktas player Anderson Talisca: I am really happy at the team. People in Istanbul are very nice. I am in big club.

- Fenerbahce were interested to transfer Basaksehirspor player Emre Belogozlu but team head coach Dick Advocaat wasnt interested.

- Galatasaray player Kolbeinn Sightorsson has gave word to Galatasaray for transfer 6 months ago as he was unhappy in Nantes.

- TurkishPresident Recep Tayyip Erdogan is reported to have meeting with Turkey head coach Fatih Terim discussing about selection of Arda Turan.

- Fenerbahce player Moussa Sow has agreed to recieve 2 million euro salary which is half of what he recieved at Al Ahli.

What happened in Turkish football today? 01.09.2016

Turkish National Team needs lots of areas to improve on with its play

Turkish National Team has started its first preparation for the World Cup 2018 route with a friendly game against Russian National Team which are also hosts of the tournament. It needs to be stated that much changed team from Euro 2016 didnt provide high hopes to the game before Croatian National Team due of slow game played.

The game has ended with goalless draw with both sides having trouble at creating chances due of not being fully ready to the game and also issues which has been arisen from high heat and humitidy at the Antalya. As been mentioned before at our blogs, both teams are going through big revisions following Euro 2016 and this is beginnig of this route with both teams trying to find problems at current team and find ways how to bring positive results. Russian National Team of course has two years to prepare while Turkey needed to be ready for its 5th September game against Croatia as first World Cup qualifier and yesterday performance did raise some questions prior to the game. One of them being on-going issue at the midfield area which does need to be solved if it wants to get positive results from game against Croatia.

Turkish National Team head coach Fatih Terim surely has recognised problems which were present at the game and now needs to solve them for game against Croatian National Team. This performance is surely is not enough.

Galatasaray transfers Nigel de Jong

Even through in overal summer transfer window compare to previous ones has been ended in calm manner the last day transfers has been very active indeed with agreements and contract being signed almost whole day. One of them is transfer of LA Galaxy player Nidel de Jong to Galatasaray.

The aim of Galatasaray was finally to find an alternative to its previous star player Felipe Melo and there is belief at the club that their did finally found an alternative for him as de Jong is known to be very agreesive player. He stated himself at the signing of contract that he has fighting spirit and even has nickname is King Kong. Surely, de Jong transfer would provide lots of strength to the Galatasaray and would make team to be more agressive characteristics which ws missing at the team for long time. It is also plus that he had played number of game back at the MLS prior to arriving as he would be ready to the league.

It does look that Nigel de Jong would be great alternative to Felipe Melo due of style of play but his performance at the Super League would become more clear as league progresses.

Besiktas transfers Gokhan Inler.

Another one of the memorable deadline transfers has been signing of the Leicester City player Gokhan Inler, Turkish expat from Switzealand, who was a player which Besiktas and other Turkish teams has been tried to transfer for long time for now.

With great experience both at the club and international level Gokhan Inler would surely provide lots of help at his current team and being forward looking player would play an important role at creating chances during the game. He could be one of the key players for the success at the Champions League if it comes, due of experience. Gokhan Inler has also stated that he is true Besiktas fan and has been supporting team from childhood, and if this case and not just publicity stunt by him, than it would also do great job for a club as it always been underlying of having players who give their all and not playing only for cash.

Gokhan Inler could become one of the key transfers for Besiktas at this summer and surely would provide big help at the team with his experience he gained around Europe.

In other news:

- Professional Football Disciplinary Committee has announced fines and bans from last week games: 
- AkhisarBelediyespor has recieved 15,000 TL fine for not providing accredition cards to its staff.
- Galatasaray has recieved warning punishmentfor behaviour of the fans..
- Konyaspor has recieved 15,000 TL fine for behaviour of the fans.
- Antalyspor has recieved 50,000 TL fine and 1 game ban for behaviour of the fans..
- Bursaspor has recieved 15,000 TL fine for using banners which were not approved by TFF.
- Karabukspor has recieved 9,000 TL fine for anti-sportmanship behaviour by whole team during the game.
- Osmanlispor goalkeeper trainer Hakan Polat has recieved 13,000 TL fine and 1 game ban or non-sportmanship behavior to referee
- Gaziantepspor has recieved 2,000 TL fine for not having club doctor during the game.

- Arbitration Court has reduced punishment to the Fenerbahce CEO Aziz Yildirim from 120 days of deprivation of rights to 45 and ban from 140,000 TL to 30,000 TL.

- Eskisehirspor has loaned Galatasaray player Tarik Camdal for 1 year.

- Akhisar Belediyespor had terminated contract with its head coach Cihat Arslan.

- Trabzonspor CEO Muharrem Usta:Be honest, we dont think that match fixing topic should be discussed when we going through 15th July coup time. However, Fenerbahce CEO Aziz Yildirim has opened this conversationa and big 4 teams are in PFDK. I dont need to explain that matchfixing is wrong and its anti-sportmanship. This issue with this and FETO is being confused and has nothing in common.I want to remind that we are next to Fenerbahce if FETO went against them but if its sportive then we not At that time TFF CEO Mehmet Ali Aydinlar says that there is matchfixing and tells Fenerbahce to decide on punishment. TFF has told to UEFA that it will not send Fenerbahce to Champions League. It gave decision fast.TFF has tried to find solution with UEFA and tried to reduce ban of Fenerbahce to 1 year.

- Karabukspor will play friendly game against Giresunspor on 4th September.

- Bursaspor friendly game against Al Ittihad scheduled on 3rd September has been cancelled.

- Turkish National Team has gave visit to Turkish Footbal lFederation CEO Yildirim Demiroren and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

- Fenerbahce administrator Isfendiyar Zulfikaroglu has resigned from his position.

- Galatasaray player Luis Cavanda has resumed training sessions at his new club.

- Besiktas player Tolga Zengin has become injured during today's training session.

- Barcelona player Arda Turan has become injured during today's training session.

- Antalyaspor administrators had a meeting with its player Samuel Eto'o.

- Turkish National Team had 1st training session prior to the World Cup qualifier 2016 game against Croatian National Team.

- Besiktas player Atinc Nukan: Its incredible feeling to come back here, I had great season in Germany. I cant wait to play at Vodafone Arena. I am here to win league title and provide great performance at Champions League.

- Gaziantepspor players Nabil Ghilas and Musan Nizam has attended first training sessions at their new club.

- Kayserispor player Umut Bulut has attended to his first training session with his new team

- Fenerbahce player Moussa Sow has attended his first training session at his new club.

- Trabzonspor wanted to transfer Olimpiakos player Felipe Pardo but couldnt agree with transfer fee.

What happened in Turkish football today? 31.08.2016

Turkey didnt look to be impressive at the game against Russia.

International friendly game between Turkish National Team and Russian National Team has been ended at the friendly goalless draw at the game where both sides had some issues at dominating and creating the chances at the game even through there were times when Russian National Team has some more active football.

Turkish National Team has been looked to be affected in gamewise without many key players and even through it did show several times control of a ball and did prevent Russia to create lots of chances, it was lacking to be creative itself during the game and didnt find many chances. It is visible that Turkish National Team is going through changes which it needs to go through after Euro2016 and it might become stronger but it does give an image that it is not ready yet for Croatian National Team game at the World Cup qualifier 1st week game on 5th September. One of the main issues has been certainly midfierders, the area which Turkey has been lacked for long time which hence affected them at not creating lots of dangerous attacks during the game. One of the key players once again looked to be Emre Mor as he shown some fast football and willing to create chances at the game.

Russian National Team did look a bit more at the form but still it is not at its best level of the performance and even through did look to be more controlling game it did have big issues at creating chances. So game ended up being played at the slow-pace of two teams which going through changes at the team.

Today's performance does raise some uncertainty prior to Turkish National Team game against Croatia and doesnt look to be ready for that game. Another factor also been humid weather in Antalya which did affect level of football today.

Besiktas loans Caner Erkin and Atinc Nukan for 1 year.

Besiktas has succeeded to loan both Inter Milan player Caner Erkin, who has spend his previous season at the Fenerbahce and also its ex-player Atinc Nukan which ended being among one of the memorable deadline day transfers in the Turkey around top 3 clubs at the Super League.

Besiktas has tried for last month to find its strong alternatives at the midfielding areas going after famous names but due of different reasons its has trouble at transferring them apart of Vincent Aboubakar and Anderson Talisca. Therefore, it went after known names at the Turkish football,
Caner Erkin and its ex-player Atinc Nukan. This players surely will not have issues at the adopting to new teams as their are familiar with each other, including Caner who knows some players from national team. Besiktas has start doing transfers a bit late due of uncertainty in early summer of Mario Gomez and Jose Sosa at the club but it has ended this transfer window at the high becoming among most talked teams in Turkey with their transfers. Also it did use an opportunity to transfer Caner Erkin after Frank de Boer was appointed to Inter Milan and made it clear that he doesnt want Caner at his team.

This transfers would surely make Besiktas more stronger team right now and even through its uncertain about Champions League performance, it is expected with such a team to fight for league title once again.

Fenerbahce loans its old player Moussa Sow for 1 year.

Fenerbahce has brought back one its main players of the last years Moussa Sow with 1 year loan agreement with Al Ahli. The fact that Moussa Sow was willing to join the team and pressured Saudi Arabian team to loan him has played an important role for this agreement to take place.

Moussa Sow has left great memories and did leave with warm feelings from the team so it should not be surprised that all the bodies involved, including Fenerbahce supporters, were happy that this transfer has took place with only possible loser being Al Ahli who tried to keep an important player at their squad. Moussa Sow would aim for certain to fulfill his aims at the Fenerbahce such as winning league title and provide good performance at the Europa League. Fenerbahce would also certainly solve its issue at the midfielder which was observed during this season and could become a creative midfielder which Dick Advocaat was searching for this season.

It is certain that Moussa Sow return to Fenerbahce would be very effective and would also not have adoptation problems as he has played many years at this league and know how it is worked both at field and outside of the field.

Results:
International Friendly Game:
Turkey 0:0 Russia

In other news:

- Besiktas has won training game against Besiktas U21 team with 4:0 scoreline.

- UEFA has announced that referee of friendly game between Holland and Greece played on 1st September will be Mete Kalkavan

- Besiktas will play friendly game agaisnt Gaziantepspor on 3rd September.

- Bursaspor will play friendly game against Al Ittihad on 3rd September.

- Besiktas: Our club has transferred Leicester City player Gokhan Inler. 2016-17 salary will be 2,052,000 euro and next season 1,800,000 euro

- Rizespor has transferred Fortuna Koln player Furkan Simsek for 4 years.

- Olympiakos has transferred Trabzonspor player Oscar Cardozo with 2,400,000 euro transfer fee.

- Eskisehirspor has loaned Galatasaray player Tarik Camdal.

- AkhisarBelediyespor has transferred Ozer Hurmaci for 3 years.

- RealBetis has loaned Galatasaray player Ryan Donk for 1 year with 500,000 euro loan fee, with purchase price 1,538,750 euro.

- Sanliurfaspor has transferred Antalyaspor player Oktay Delibalta for 2 years.

- Galatasaray has terminated contract with Umut Bulut and would pay 1,045,589 euro to him.

- Adanaspor head coach Kronoslav Jurcic has attended his first training session at his new club.

- Galatasaray has transferred LA Galaxy player Nigel de Jong for 2 years

- Besiktas: Our player Denis Boyko has been loaned to Malaga for 1 year with 435,000 euro loan fee and an option to sign him for 6,000,000.

- Galatasaray plans to raise salary and extend contract of Bruma and include release clause.

- Gaziantepspor has made transfer agreement with Porto player Nabil Ghilas and Trabzonspor player Musa Nizam.

- Alanyaspor has loaned Chelsea player Kenneth Omeruo for 1 year and transferred Lorient player Lamine Gassama.

- Alanyaspor has transferred Monaco player Vagner Love for 2 years.

- Osmanlispor has loaned PSV Eindoven player Adam Maher for 1 year.

- Liverpool player Mamadou Sakho has declined transfer offer from Besiktas.

- Genclerbirligi transfers Mersin Idman Yurdu player Abdul Rahman Khalili for 3 years.

- L'Equipe: Besiktas has offered 5 million euro to Braga player Willy Boly but player has declined an offer.

- Besiktas has frozen contract of its player Veli Kavlak until midseason.

- Trabzonspor has asked extension for transfer negotiations with Aston Villa player Micah Richards and Guingamp player Marcus Coco.

- Besiktas has offered 1+1 year contract to Antalyaspor player Samuel Eto'o but he demanded 2 year contract and same salary as Vincent Aboubakar