What happened in Turkish football today? 13/03/2018

Trabzonspor has got an important win against Akhisarspor.

Trabzonspor did manage to show high level of improvement against Akhisarspor during Super League 25th week with 3:1 scoreline compare to other games played in this calendar year and it would need to carry on this performance until end of the season for Europa League spot.

Even through in overall, this season could be seen as another wasted one as it lost its league title chances, it still has chance to end its 50th anniversary season at the Europa League spot if it continues similar performace as it did at the game yesterday. Even through it did start game in pretty poor form without being able to get control of the game starting from 25th minute of 1st half it has improved its performance creating high number of the chances. Even through Burak Yilmaz did find goal, it was important for other players to find goals to get share of goals which seems to be main issue of the team right now. Another important factor for Trabzonspor has been to reduce number of the chances to be created from Akhisarspor only conceding at last moment of the game. Right now, team without doubt has got very important motivational boost and confidence which would be crucial at the game against Yeni Malatyaspor.

Assuming that Trabzonspor has administrative issues and preparing for CEO election it was important at sports side to get such crucial result and keep its hopes for Europe next year arrive.
Besiktas needs to aim for best game against Bayern Munich so it can end competition at high note at this memorable performance at group stage.

Besiktas would be aiming to end its memorable Champions League campaign at the memorable note at its home game against Bayern Munich after it has lost 1st leg game with 5:0 scoreline. 

Certainly, 1st leg game would affect to the motivation and focus of the players for 2nd leg game and it could be understandable for them to play game with low motivation but in same time it has good chance to aim for a win and provide some points towards UEFA ranking as Turkey without doubt is among countries which does need points to maximise its involvement at the tournament for near future. Therefore, at the game which by itself doesnt have any aims it is important to provide good football and end this competition at high note and remind everyone its performance at home and behaviour of fans which has dominated this season competition during group stage and has made team one of the most-talked in the world. With Bayern Munich also being relaxed from 1st leg their can achieve that as did Basel against Manchester City last week as their won them 2:1 even through losing 1st leg with 4:0 scoreline.

Besiktas winning Bayern Munich would be wrongfly be related as historical as their lost 1st game with 5:0 scoreline but their win would make at least raise some prestige and also points to Turkish sides at UEFA.

Standard Liege would pay 1.5 million euro option to Galatasaray for Pedro Cavanda transfer.

It became clear that Standard Liege has agreed to pay 1.5 million euro to Galatasaray for transfer of Pedro Cavanda who is currently loaned to Belgian side and this certainly would be good news for Turkish side.

Galatasaray has been sonsidering to sell its player Cavanda for long time and as best resort has managed to loan him to Belgian side Standard Liege, and thankfully their seem to be satisfied with his performance as their agreed to pay 1.5 million euro optional transfer fee to sign him in upcoming days. This would allow to have extra cash and have one extra spot at the times when it does need cash as all other clubs around Turkey. It needs to be stated however that Galatasaray would be hoping to recieve similar kind of news from other unwanted loan players to make its squad easiness and flexibility. This decision could also been seen for Belgian league, to all fairness, being below at difficulty and hence allowed Cavanda to get adapted to league easier.

It is expected that official transfer announcement would be made in upcoming days unless some last minute changes.

Schedule:
UEFA Champions League, last 16, 2nd leg:
20:00 Besiktas - Bayern Munich (agg: 0:5)

In other news:

- PFDK referrals:
- Alanyaspor has been referred for not leaving stairs empty during game.
- Antalyaspor has been referred for anti-disciplinary behaviour of players for 5 yellow and 1 red cards.
- Antalyaspor player Ondriej Celustka has been referred for breaking rules
- Kayserispor head coach Marius Sumudica has been referred for anti-sportmanship behaviour
- Yeni Malatyaspor has been referred for behaviour of fans, events at field and allowing unallowed fans to stands.
- Fenerbahce has been referred for events at field and behaviour of fans
- Galatasaray has been referred for events at the field
- Konyaspor has been referred teamwise for 6 players recieving yellow cards.

- Besiktas player Caner Erkin has recieved 2-year jailed indictment due of his actions towards referee Metin Kalkavan of Super League game against Basaksehirspor game on 27th October.

- Besiktas player Pepe has resumed training sessions after recovering from injury.

- Konyaspor player Petar Filipovic has ended this season due of the injury.

- Basaksehirspor players Edin Visca and Riad Bajic and Konyaspor player Deni Milosevic has been selected to Bosnia and Herzegovina National Team for international friendly games against Bulgaria and Senegal

- Besiktas has started transfer negotiations with Benfica for transfer of Anderson Talisca.

- Sevilla are interested to transfer Trabzonspor player Okay Yokuslu.

- BayerLeverkusen has offered 7.5 million euro for Besiktas player Tolgay Arslan but administration has informed that it would start negotiations in summer.

What happened in Turkish football today? 12/03/2017

Trabzonspor has got an important motivation and confidence for upcoming weeks. 

Trabzonspor has managed to win Super League 25th week game against Akhisarspor which without doubt was very important for them aim to get to the Europa League and has prevented their opponents to equalise points with them with 3:1 scoreline.

Even through Trabzonspor has been provided better performance compare to their opponents, it is would be tough to call that team has provided great performance especially taking account that it didnt start game in good tempo. With Akhisarspor also showing poor performance during same period and in fact overall 1st half, with Trabzonspor raising tempo during last minutes of 1st half has led them to win game followed with 2 more towards end of the game. In fact, with Trabzonspor not showing high tempo performance in today's game it has managed to get 3 goals which was important for them as it didnt score many goals during last weeks and this scoreline would provide an important motivation for upcoming weeks and hence would get into better motivation and confidence into their fight for Europa League spot and aim for good results for last 9 weeks.

Meanwhile, Akhisarspor did provide pretty dissapointing performance and apart of scoring during last minute of the game didnt show any positive football with lacking to getting into tempo and showing an attacking game, losing good chance to get into Europa League spot race.

Trabzonspor without doubt needed this result as it has shown some poor performance in recent periods and also with economical conditions needed motivational and confidence boost just like that.

Sinan Gumus has brought an important win with his effective game against Konyaspor.

Galatasaray has managed to turn around game against Konyaspor during Super League 25th week game and has got an advantage at the standings with 3 point advantage from Besiktas and Basaksehirspor.

It needs to be noted that the main hero of this win against Konyaspor has been Galatasaray player Sinan Gumus who has come as substitute and has provided great assist to Bafetembi Gomis and have found winning goal on 87th minute. Taking account that Konyaspor has found goal on 2nd minute and has led game for 67th minute, it has provided high number of stress towards Galatasaray players as game developed. Galatasaray has dominated game especially during 2nd half and has found some chances with rushing game but as goals didnt come out it could provide some panicking mood which would only provide problematic issues towards team. Sinan Gumus who has come out focussed into game and providing high level but organised football has hence played an important role and helped team to get 6 point advantage before Fenerbahce derby game. This kind of games could provide incredible motivation to the team.

Hence, Galatasaray has got an important win and would now look forward for Fenerbahce game where their didnt win since 1999 and would aim to change that statistics.

Fenerbahce has got what it needed with tactical and boring game. 

During Super League 25th week game against Yeni Malatyaspor, Fenerbahce has failed to provide high level performance game but has managed to win with 2:0 scoreline and hence has got an important win with keeping themselves at the title race.

With Basaksehirspor losing against Alanyaspor and also meeting with Galatasaray next week Fenerbahce has got an opportunity to reduce point difference to 3 points in next week. It was aware however to have this opportunity it needed 1st to win Yeni Malatyaspor and hence it needs to be focussed into more scoreline performance and aim for that. In spectator sense it wasnt great game, but with Fenerbahce losing last 2 games and coming to such crucial game in standings sense it should not be heavily cricitised to provide such game against Yeni Malatyaspor. With their opponents not also being able to control their control of ball into goals has also played an important role for
Fenerbahce to get such a win. Fenerbahce as been stated at previous blog is still at title race but it needs to win next week. Therefore, it would be expected to provide its best football with confidence against Galatasaray.

Fenerbahce main aim is to get themselves right into title race until national team break and have good chances as their have easiest fixture compare to the title race opponents.

Schedule:
Turkish Super League, 25th week:
Akhisarspor 1:3 Trabzonspor

In other news:

- Galatasaray will have general administrative board meeting on 14th March.

- Kick-off time between international friendly game between Montenegro and Turkish National Team would be 20:10 on 27th March.

- UEFA has announced referee of Champions League last 16 2nd leg game between Besiktas and Bayern Munich as Michael Oliver.


- Galatasaray assistant coach Hasan Sas has felt unwell during Super League 25th week game against Konyaspor but currently reported to be in good condition.

- Besiktas players Cyle Larin and Atiba Hutchinson has been called for Canadian National Team for international friendly games against New Zealand and Spain

- Genclerbirligi player Aleksandr Scekic has been selected to Montenegro National Team for international friendly games against Cyprus and Turkey.

- Fenerbahce player Roman Neustadner has been selected to Russian National Team for international friendly games against France and Brasil

- Galatasaray would have an open training sessions for their fans on 16th March at Turk Telekom Arena.

- Besiktas player Anderson Talisca has been selected to Brasilian National Team for international friendly games against Germany and Russia.

-  Roma are interested to transfer Galatasaray player Yunus Akgun.

- Besiktas are interested to transfer NEC Nijmegen player Ferdi Kadioglu and Braunschweig player Ahmet Canbaz.

- Besiktas player Tolgay Arslan worth is estimated to be 15 million euro right now, which is raise of 30% from 2015.

What happened in Turkish football today? 11/03/2018

Galatasaray has won an important game against Konyaspor with showing great fighting spirit.

Galatasaray has managed to turn around the game against Konyaspor with memorable goal from Sinan Gumus as it was losing for most amount of the game with 1:0 scoreline but with attitude which is used with Fatih Terim coaching style has won game with 2:1 scoreline.

With Basaksehirspor losing against Alanyaspor on 9th March and also playing crucial week against Fenerbahce during next week, Galatasaray has good chance to end this week with point difference with 9 games left until of the season. It needs to be noted that Galatasaray without doubt didnnt expect such an early goal from Moke on 2nd minute and has led for panicking and fast attacking game from Galatasaray which was among main reason for Galatasaray to have trouble to find equaliser until 69th minute. However, as game progressed Galatasaray has got control of the game as the game has been developing and has got without doubt well deserved win at the end of the day. Without doubt hero of the game has been Sinan Gumus as he has found a goal at the 87th minute with very classy game and has brought such an important at most important minute and has helped to go to Kadikoy at confident manner.

Konyaspor meanwhile with its new head coach Sergen Yalcin has shown great performance with also showing an attacking game and fighting spirit which could be very important for next 9 games of the league and would help to stay at the league without doubt.

Galatasaray has won with fighting spirit and with huge help from supporters and would now play against Fenerbahce where it didnt win for very long time and with having general an away game phobia it would be having some trouble at game.

Fenerbahce has got an important win against Yeni Malatyaspor prior to derby game.

Fenerbahce has managed to win very important game against Yeni Malatyaspor during Super League 25th week games as the team is currently at the condition not to lose any games especially prior to derby game against Galatasaray.Even through the pace of the game wasnt too fast, it has got what it wanted with tactical game.

As we are entering to the crucial weeks at such close title race, the games of top 4 teams would be mainly focussed into getting result rather than aiming to provide high tempo which does raise some risk during game. Therefore, it could be stated that Fenerbahce still was behind its best performance but with losing last 2 games and playing against team which didnt lose last 4 games with good football it was important for them to focus into critical games. With taking account that Basaksehirspor has lost during game, it was important for Fenerbahce to take such a win and prior to Galatasaray game next week where it gets good results at home it has great chance to find itself at the middle of title race. Coming to game, Fenerbahce has provided great tactical defensive game without focussing too much stress and aiming to create good chances with Fernandao having chance to end game at higher scoreline.

Yeni Malatyaspor had provided also patient football with aiming to control game but when game is played at same tempo, the team with better quality has been coming as better chance to win game. With Yeni Malatyaspor not being able to turn game around it has lost game with 2:0 scoreline.
As been stated, Fenerbahce has gained a good control and have good chance to become strong candidate for league title following next week game against Galatasaray.

Besiktas finds itself at the middle of title race. 

With single goal scored by Talisca during Super League 25th week game against Genclerbirligi, Besiktas has got an important win and found itself right into league title race prior to meeting with Basaksehirspor.

It needs to be stated that Besiktas has dominated game from start to an end with possession of the ball and most players, including Talisca, in overall had lack of the last touches of the game. Therefore, there is still feeling of the absences of Ricardo Quaresma who had not being playing for fine. Stating that it needs to be remembered that Besiktas has won 3 games back -to-back with also improving its game performance at the Super League and has regained crucial motivation for next game against Basaksehirspor with winning 3 games back to back. Time would show if this is enough for league title but it is clear that team is at best period of its performance during whole season. One of the issues which made Besiktas easier, possibly due of its performance, has pushed Genclerbirligi behind the game for 90 minutes so it was clear that it would win game as long as it scores and hence Talisca goal was important as it would make its players happy as things would get into more panicking mode.

Besiktas with such win has found itself right into the middle of league title and would get title if it wins all of the games until end of the season.

Results:
Turkish Super League, 25th week:
Kayserispor 3:2 Karabukspor
Goztepe 2:1 Antalyaspor
Yeni Malatyaspor 0:2 Fenerbahce
Galatasaray 2:1 Konyaspor

Schedule:
Turkish Super League, 25th week:
Akhisarspor - Trabzonspor

In other news:

- Galatasaray CEO Mustafa Cengiz: Our main focus is to solve debt problem at our problem. Our previous administration has done many mistakes at this issue. UEFA follows us. I was at UEFA to raise Turkish football image and defended other clubs. We would allow technical staff to give transfer list for summer as their want and would work on that.

- Trabzonspor player Abdulkadir Omur has become injured during training session and will not play against Akhisarspor during Super League 25th week game.

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Genclerbirligi player Ugur Ciftci, Antalyaspor player Sakib Aytac, Newcastle United player Massadio Haidara and Amiens player Bakasy Dibassy.

- Galatasaray head coach Fatih Terim wants to purchase Inter Milan player Yuto Nagatomo who is currently loaned to team.

What happened in Turkish football today? 10/03/2018

Besiktas has got an important win with minimal scoreline against Genclerbirligi.

Besiktas has got an important win against Genclerbirligi with mininal scoreline of 1:0 during Super League 25th week game and has equalised same points with Basaksehirspor and Galatasaray (game in hand) of 50 points and has provided incredible excitement to the league and also prior to next week against Basaksehirspor.

It needs to be noted that Besiktas has dominated game from start to an end and should be seen surprise that it has won with only 1:0 scoreline taking account that it had possession of ball of 66%, with some points this number raising to 72% and also creating high number of the chances. Besiktas has dominated game and did provide good performance but above of the goal from Anderson Talisca on 48th minute, it had lack of last passes and last shots taking account that it has shot on goal 20 times. Therefore, Talisca goal has also saved game for Besiktas to get into stressful situation as if it wouldnt find this goal team would very likely to get into high stressful game. Still, it needs to be noted that Besiktas has improved its performance in recent weeks and with getting into right into pot of the league title race it has also provided great performance and start providing game which could be referred as performance of champions.

Genclerbirligi had provided pretty poor attacking game but was showing good performance at the defensive side which has led for Besiktas to have trouble at creating and Hopf has shown great defending balls. Meanwhile, with Genclerbirligi providing good defensive game when it get behind of the game it wasnt able to react to it.

With Basaksehirspor losing to Alanyaspor yesterday, Besiktas has raised to 2nd place and got some mathematical chance to get to the leading place at the national team break coming after next week.

Galatasaray would need to win Konyaspor to get its league title momentum.

With Basaksehirspor losing to Alanyaspor yesterday, Galatasaray has got a very important chance to get into leadership spot with point difference as it would be playing against Konyaspor which have poor season.

With taking account that every game is important and also Galatasaray going to Fenerbahce next week to Kadikoy where it has trouble at winning against them, would mean that Galatasaray has only chance to beat Konyaspor. With Galatasaray home performance, compare to away game, has been main reason why its currently at the top of the league with also Bafetembi Gomis showing great performance right now would put them into strong favourite. It needs to be stated however
Konyaspor is playing for survival of the league and it has appointed Sergen Yalcin to the team which has also shown good performance in last weeks at team which almost close to be eliminated. Therefore, it will not be an easy game for Galatasaray but with motivation and confidence team is right now it would be closer to win game against Konyaspor.

With Galatasaray getting one step closer if it wins to league title at weeks which you cant afford to make many mistakes it would be aiming to get win as it also would be meeting against Fenerbahce.

Fenerbahce has only option which is to win Yeni Malatyaspor. 

Even through last 2 games which were lost by Fenerbahce did provide some damage to the league title race for them, their are still at the title race with also taking into fixtures. In fact, as could be seen from this blog at top 4 teams has strong chances to get league title with Fenerbahce being outsider at the this top 4 but still it has all chances to become champions.

However, to make this title chances higher and make Galatasaray derby game next week meaningful to the it must, only must, with no other options to win Fenerbahce as it can reduce 6 points from above opponents but to reduce this point difference to 6+(assuming Galatasaray will not lose Konyaspor) would be much harder. With league title being so close to each other 10 weeks is short time but enough to close gap with some luck. Coming to the game, Yeni Malatyaspor are in good form right now especially at home ground and hence it could be tough game towards them as it providing some attacking game. Hence, Yeni Malatyaspor will not be able to provide easy game quite naturally and hence Fenerbahce as always needs to give all their best to get the win against their opponent.One of the things it needs to be give full stadium control with all its players.

Fenerbahce does come out to must win right now if it wants to get league title and this crucial game prior to derby game against Galatasaray.

Results:
Turkish Super League, 25th week:
Sivasspor 2:2 Kasimpasa
Osmanlispor 2:1 Bursaspor
Besiktas 1:0 Genclerbirligi

Schedule:
Turkish Super League, 25th week:
13:30 Kayserispor - Karabukspor
13:30 Goztepe - Antalyaspor
16:00 Yeni Malatyaspor - Fenerbahce
19:00 Galatasaray - Goztepe

In other news:
- Bursaspor has extended sponsorship deal with TOFAS for 3-years until 2022.

- Trencin CEO Robert Rybnicek:According to contract, Trabzonspor needed to end all payments during last year.With delay of payments he have referred to FIFA. We had recieved payment on 8th March but it should be done 2-3 weeks ago. We surprised that this low amount was paid late

- Fenerbahce has requested for UEFA to count exchange rate between Euro and TL as 3.2 to check out if it stays within 10 million euro loss.

- Besiktas player Atinc Nukan had an operation due of ongoing injury.

- Fenerbahce considers to include its player Ozan Tufan at 18-team squad during Super League 26th week game against Galatasaray.

- Galatasaray player Bafetembi Gomis manager Patrick Mendy: There are number of clubs who interested with him but he wants to stay at team and focusses for league title.

What happened in Turkish football today? 09/03/2018

Besiktas would have tough time against in-form Genclerbirligi

Besiktas would be meeting with Genclerbirligi during Super League 25th week game after having 1st time during almost for month to be able to prepare for game for 1 week. Even through Besiktas are coming out to the game as favourite their task is not very easy.

Apart of losing to Bayern Munich with 5:0 scoreline, it needs to be noted that this period for Besiktas has not been very bad at domestic front as it has found itself right back into the title race. With this taking account  and also losing number of players like Ricardo Quaresma due of ban and also Pepe who is injured it was able to provide top level performance and hence would be coming out as strong favourite against Genclerbirligi. However, their opponents during this calendar year only has lost 1-game against Alanyaspor in last week and has drawn with Fenerbahce. However, Genclerbirligi without doubt would be coming out with an aim to win and provide some tough period for their opponent. Therefore, it wont be an easy task for Istanbul side even through their do have motivation from recent results and finding once again at title race.

Besiktas still needs to provide top level performance and stay focussed for the game if it wants to get win as everygame right now is crucial in this title race.

Toronto are interested to transfer Mathieu Valbuena.

It became clear that Toronto are interested to transfer Fenerbahce player Mathieu Valbuena and it is unclear what reaction would be given by player as he doesnt recieve high number of playing time and as all players he would like to play.

Mathieu Valbuena has been transferred as one of the important players to the team by Aykut Kocaman and with current squad was seen main star of the team and taking account that he did perform well he didnt been selected by Kocaman himself. One of his only problem has been to keep ball too long at his feet which is also seen as one of the main reasons for him not recieving playing time. Taking that in account he still did great things as he created chances and raised tempo. It is unclear if Valbuena would still like to leave as their are reports that he did recieve higher transfer offers from Chinese but has declined them but after mid-season he didnt recieve much time and hence he could change his mind right now easily.Fenerbahce does need player like Valbuena but not playing him it would run risk for losing among its main players due of their own actions.

Mathieu Valbuena without doubt would go through this aspects in his career and his decision could play an important role for his future at club and in general.

Cengiz Under has been selected as best player of the February by Roma.  

Roma has selected its player Cengiz Under as player of the month for the February as he has scored 6 goals and 1 assist and provided as present car which was provided from club sponsors. With this development Under once again has shown to be great player not in Turkey but around world.

By each day of 2018, Cengiz Under continues to take all of the focus towards himself with his performance and showing that he is fully adapted to the team and Serie A. Turkish media even refers him as Turk who takes front page of newspapers as much as Italian, stating that he became their star and respected player. Even through number of Turkish players did show great performance around Europe such as without dount Arda Turan,  Emre Belozoglu and Blackburn Rovers legend Tugay Kerimoglu. Cengiz Under has all chances to become a legend at Europe as much as those players and taking his young age he would develop even more. Its not easy to become star in Italy as would Okan Buruk among other players state so without doubt Cengiz Under and also Hakan Calhanoglu is doing great job. In fact, Cengiz Under and Altinordu among Basaksehirspor did great job as Calhanoglu has been prepared in German system which helped him a lot.

If Cengiz Under would carry on this performance he could easily become one of the best players of Serie A during this season and in future.

Results:
Turkish Super League, 25th week:
Alanyaspor 4:1 Basaksehirspor

Schedule:
Turkish Super League, 25th week:
13:30 Sivasspor - Kasimpasa
16:00 Osmanlispor - Bursaspor
19:00 Besiktas - Genclerbirligi

In other news:


- Trabzonspor would be going for an early CEO election on 29-30th March, if majority is not gathered for election day then it would be taking place on 7-8 April.

- - Besiktas has made sponsorship deal with Volvo Turkey.

- Besiktas player Atinc Nukan will be going through an operation 10th March due of on-going injury he has.

- Galatasaray CEO candidate Ali Fatinoglu: Right now we need CEO candidates which are aware of economical condition at the club. We need CEO who would be able to provide enough cash to move team forward. I am starting signature process for election.

- Besiktas has offered 2-year extension contract to its player Ryan Babel with raise of salary for 200,000 euro.

- Galatasaray CEO Mustafa Cengiz: 6 advocates of our club has provided great presentation to UEFA with 50+ pages. Their role is to assist to develop football and their would make decision in this manner. The decision could take some time from them.

- Besiktas player Pepe is expected to be able to play against Basaksehirspor during Super League 26th week game.

- Trabzonspor didnt pay salaries to working personal during 2018 at all.

- InterMilan has set transfer fee of its player Yuto Nagatomo as 4 million euro.

- Fenerbahce has made decisions to provide bonus for each point for next 10 games left at Super League.

- Besiktas are interested to transfer Fiorentina player Milan Badelj

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What happened in Turkish football today? 08/03/2018

FIFA has provided transfer ban to Trabzonspor for not sending 250,000 euro to the Trencin for Matus Bero transfer.

FIFA has send letter to Trabzonspor stating that it has provided them with transfer ban for summer transfer window prior to 2018/19 season due of not sending 250,000 euro transfer fee towards Slovakian team Trencin for Matus Bero transfer.

Trabzonspor without doubt has made huge mistake for not sending this cash and has recieved most harsh fine which could be given in this condition and even through it is expected that team would be going towards CAS to ask for change for this ban, unless it has any strong prove for the case it will get this ban without doubt. It is known that Trabzonspor is currently at economical poor situation and also Trabzonspor head coach Riza Calimbay did argue during recent games about poor squad at the team and hence this news timing when club would once again look for ways to become stronger for next season would be providing lots of the damages without doubt. Again, the mistake has been back with transfer deal with Trencin in 1st place as it should have foreseen to be able to pay this amount of cash. Trencin did right move and got well-deserved justice in this view and this does show that Trabzonspor was not well managed when transfer was made in 2016.

Trabzonspor as been stated will be going to CAS but with decision to be unlikely on their favour it would need to go through some changes with transfer politics in summer, especially of current players.

Galatasaray CEO Mustafa Cengiz would be having meeting with UEFA regarding FFP on 9th March.

Galatasaray would be going towards UEFA meeting to discuss about its current FFP condition and also aim to reduce fine and ban which it could be recieving from FFP for not following their guidelines in recent periods.

Main object for Galatasaray is to make sure that as CEO Mustafa Cengiz is willing to solve those issues in upcoming period as UEFA for sure would give him chance as he is newly-elected and all this mess is not happened due of him. It is reported that chances for him to recieve competition ban at the UEFA is very unlikely and most likely fine would be limited transfer during summer transfer window, where it needs to be make break-even amount of players sold vs bought, which is best option to do so for the team. It is reported that Galatasaray administration are looking positively for meeting believing it would be able to get least possible damage for this difficult condition as UEFA is willing to listen, understand and aid them and also other clubs. There is still option for most harsh ban to be given from competition however but it would be seen as unsurprising,

Naturally, administration and head coach Fatih Terim are waiting for verdict for UEFA so it can start planning effectively summer transfer window strategy.

Fenerbahce has real chances to get league title even through it is difficult task.

One of the questions at the Turkish footballing world right now is does Fenerbahce have any chance to get league title at the end of the season or it is out of the race with 10 weeks to be played and 6 points behind league leaders and 3 teams above them.

Even through 6 point difference is not big difference at all, the problem is how team is performing during last 2 weeks and also factor that there are 3 teams above them right now. However, there is case that Fenerbahce does have easier fixture among other teams with only meeting with Galatasaray during 26th week. With taking account dominance of home ground of Fenerbahce it would be coming out with strong confidence and be closer for a win. Other clubs would be meeting with each other and at this game, all clubs above them, would be losing points which does provide some chance with biggest one as during all this meeting their would be draw. Therefore, among all league title contenders in sense of table Fenerbahce has most difficult task however coming to the fixture it has easiest, so as long as it wins all of the games it can get league title and it did happen before in history of football.

Therefore, it is important for head coach Aykut Kocaman and players to stay at their focus for league title and give all their best for last 10 games as things can turn in this interesting season.

Schedule:
Turkish Super League, 25th week:
20:00 Alanyaspor - Basaksehirspor

In other news:

- PFDK decisions:
- Antalyaspor has recieved blockage of section of the stands for behaviour of fans.
- Sivasspor has recieved 15,000 TL fine for behaviour of fans.
- Trabzonspor has recieved blockage of section of the stands for behaviour of fans and 30,000 TL ban for eventsat field
- Besiktas has recieved 140,000 TL for behaviour of fans for 6th time per season and blockage of section of stadium.
- Goztepe has recieved 45,000 TL fine for 3rd time behaviour of fans and blockage of stadium.
- Konyaspor has recieved 30,000 TL fine for behavior fans and blockage of section of stands.
- Galatasaray has recieved 30,000 TL fine for events at the field.
- Trabzonspor administration has decided to go into CEO election in April. Current CEO Muharrem Usta will not be candidate during that election.

- TFF Arbitration Court has approved decision for Trabzonspor to pay compensation of 1.3 million euro to club ex-coach Ersun Yanal.

- Galatasaray Trade and Media director Ali Ogutucu has resigned from his post.

- Basaksehirspor players Arda Turan and Emmanuel Adebayor will not play against Alanyaspor during Super League 25th week game due of injury.

- Chinese clubs are interested to transfer Besiktas player Alvaro Negredo.

- Besiktas has opened complaint case towards Fenerbahce ex-player Robin van Persie for putting his shorts during Turkish Cup last 16 game against them during last season.

- Fenerbahce player Volkan Demirel has apologized for recieved red card towards Aykut Kocaman during Turkish Cup semi-final 1st leg game against Besiktas.

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Real Betis player Riza Durmusi.

- Real Betis are interested to transfer Inter Milan player Yuto Nagatomo, he is currently loaned to Galatasaray.

- Besiktas player Alvaro Negredo is expected to start against Genclerbirligi during Super League 25th week game.

- TottenhamHotspur are interested to transfer Trabzonspor player Adbulkadir Omur.

- Trabzonspor head coach Riza Calimbay told administration that he wants to sell Rodallega, Hubocan, Castillo, Bero, Sosa, Kucka, Onazi, Kamil, Pereira, Durica, Ugur, Olcay and N'doye.

- Galatasaray player Yasin Oztekin has requested raise from his salary of 1,350,000 euro using an example of Garry Rodrigues salary of 3.5 million euro.

What happened in Turkish football today? 07/03/2018

Besiktas sends complaint about PFDK decision about Quaresma 5-game ban.

The 5-game ban which was given by PFDK towards Besiktas player Ricardo Quaresma during Turkish Cup semi-final 1st leg  game has been continued with club aiming to reduce this ban to one game and delay this decision.

Besiktas aims to show towards PFDK and TFF that actions which has led for angry response from Ricardo Quaresma has been provocated from Fenerbahce player Josef de Souza and Mehmet Ekici. Club stated that the ban should be taken alltogether and insted those Fenerbahce players should be referred and recieve bans for their provacative actions. In this argument, Besiktas has also send videos and photos from that incident aiming to prove that their are correct  regarding those complains and argument that Quaresma has been provocated for providing those actions. This is without doubt a direct action from team due of recieving 5-game ban and direct criticism to PFDK.

It needs to be taken account that even through PFDK might take into consideration arguments about
Fenerbahce players it is very unlikely that it would change Quaresma plan drastically with at best it being fallen to 3 games. 

Galatasaray sacked Cenk Ergun from football director role.

It became clear from media reports which has been made earlier this week that Galatasaray has sacked its football director Cenk Ergun who has provided high number of role during recent period especially during reign of Dursun Ozbek at the team.

However, with Mustafa Cengiz getting appointed as CEO of the club and going through big changes inside the administrative side of the team, role of Cenk Ergun has become less and less and his appearances at the media has been reduced to almost none. Therefore, the factor that Cenk Ergun has left team should not be seen as big surprise and was awaited factor. Mustafa Cengiz until now has been mainly busy with providing some number of the changes both at economical factors and controlling situation but didnt provide crucial changed factors up to now. Cenk Ergun sacking without doubt has also been motivated from Galatasaray head coach Fatih Terim who was seeking to bring to the team his own man at the team as much as possible.

Right now, there are rumours that Bursaspor are showing interest to appoint Cenk Ergun as club's sports director and time would show how Ergun would look for such offer from Super League side.

Galatasaray will go through drastic changes with players contract next season. 

With Galatasaray CEO Mustafa Cengiz focussing into reducing debt and raising gain to the club in upcoming period, he is planning to go to drastic changes with contracts with taking away additional aspects which are based at the contract.

This move without doubt has been motivated prior to UEFA meeting regarding of their FFP situation and reduce of recieving harsh fines and ban from European tournaments during next season. Mustafa Cengiz during summer transfer window deals aims to take away sections such as paying for taxes, finding and paying for house rent and also car rentals and also take away all of the bonuses expect of performance bonuses. Even through this changes does sound reasonably, most of the contract with Galatasaray players especially with foreign ones are including those factors and might lead to some issues especially with current players as until now their had enjoyed this luxirious. But with team seeking to raise its gains and reduce debt it needs to be noted that those changes are crucial for a team and should be explained like that towards players so their understand.

With UEFA meeting coming on 9th March, Galatasaray CEO Mustafa Cengiz has many works to reduce among of damages which it can get from organisation but it does look like it would be able not to get ban from European competitions on next season.

In other news:

- Besiktas player Ryan Babel has been selected to the Dutch National Team for international friendly games.

- TFF would be providing support to the area which has border with Syria.

- Karabukspor needs to pay 15,000,000 TL debt if it aims to avoid transfer ban during summer transfer window.

- Trabzonspor player Burak Yilmaz and assistant coach Bulent Albayrak during training session.

- Fenerbahce player Volkan Demirel manager Erdinc Sehit: News that Volkan will not play anymore doesnt represent truth. He is in good motivation and is focussed for league title. He is not interested to leave team.

- Besiktas player Adriano is expecting to be starting against Genclerbirligi during Super League 25th week game.

- Turkcell has opened seperate line of mobile numbers starting with 0516 for Bursaspor supporters.

- Fenerbahce head coach Aykut Kocaman plans to start with Mehmet Ekici and Sener Ozbayrakli during Super League 25th week game against Yeni Malatyaspor.

- Bursaspor player Harun Tekin has become injured during today's training session.

- OlympiqueLyon are interested to transfer Trabzonspor players Okay Yokuslu, Abdulkadir Omur and Yusuf Yazici.

- Inter Milan and Milan are interested to transfer Galatasaray player Garry Rodrigues.

- NewcastleUnited are interested to transfer Besiktas player Tolgay Arslan.