What happened in Turkish football today? 18.11

Galatasaray termination of contract with Hamza Hamzaoglu is full of mysteries.

Turkish footballing world was going through normal working day until early evening all of the Turkish sports media offices didnt recieve news about Galatasaray ending contract with club head coach Hamza Hamzaoglu. As expected, this news has raised shock from everyone including within Galatasaray fans themselves.

Just after 7 pm, Turkish time at the Galatasaray website club has made press release that club has ended contract with Hamza Hamzaoglu. The reasons of the termination were  not given at the release, however there is rumours that it is related to the comment which was made yesterday that he would extend contract with Umut Bulut even if it wasnt extended straight away according to contract.

As it was remembered, Galatasaray has started season poorly and below its potential and there were talks of ending contract with Hamzaoglu back then, but club decided to carry on with him. Compare to that performance, Galatasaray is playing much better football, has chance to qualify for Champions League last 16 stage and still inside Super League title race. With rise of performance by the team it is surprising and unclear why Hamzaoglu contract has ended.
Turkey should be successful at Euro 2016.

Turkish National Team has played its first two friendly games as a preparation to the Euro2016 tournament to France in a week. Turkey has managed to win Qatar with 2:1 while losing game in one point and having goalless draw against Greece yesterday. But more importantly it has ended 2015 without losing any game, having 7 wins and 3 draws.

As always, there is some parts of Turkish national team to be criticised and signs of improvement however you cant say that team didnt deserve to be in France, referring to last games in qualifiers. Turkish national team is known to perform better at the final tournament than in qualifiers so there is big expectations in team to succeed at European Championship.

Turkish head coach Fatih Terim has great squad at his hand currently and all those players will improve as season progresses. Biggest focus will be given to Arda Turan who after New Year will be able to play for Barcelona and hence get into his performance level and be much stronger in France next year.

Turkish supporters booing of Greek anthem and minute of silence is more  than disrespect. 

Yesterday's friendly game between Turkey and Greece, unfortunately, was mainly discussed about behaviour by the supporters by booing during 1-minute of silence given to the condelences of Paris attacks and also during Greek national anthem. This behaviour is totally unsuitable and raises very important question about Turkish society.

Firstly, it is important to note that this behaviour does not represent whole Turkish nation as it has shown some support of the Paris events and have good conditions with Greeks but only minority seems to show negative reaction. However, only this minority has damaged Turkish image in incredible negative way. Meanwhile, there is argument that this protest was given towards ISIS and terrorism in general, however unfortunately it doesnt look like that for Europe. After game Turkish head coach Fatih Terim have said that this reaction is incorrect and will be misunderstood by Europe and affect image of Turkey.

Even more worrying is negative reaction which it may rise towards Turkish national team in the Euro2016 at France next summer. In case if this incident will not be forgotten (and could easily not be) some fans might provide similar reaction when Turkish national team will be played at stadiums, especially if game will be against France. I am pretty sure noone in Turkey would like this to happen, but it might due of stupidity of minors at stadium during yesterday game.

In other news: 

- Trabzonspor player Marko Marin have training session after argument with his teammate Aykut Demir. Marin while leaving training: Did you see it? This is club.

- Trabzonspor has announced that its ex-player Kevin Constant will recieve 2,000,000 Euro as termination fee.

- Roma is willing to pay 5,5 million euro to Fenerbahce for transfer of Salih Ucan.

- Fenerbahce players Lazar Markovic and Fabiano Ribeiro have joined training sessions after recovering from injury.

- Fenerbahce: Between 2004-2012 our player Alex De Souza has recieved 34,324,767 Euro as wages.

- Fenerbahce are interested to sign Joel Campbell

- Besiktas CEO Fikret Orman: We are aiming to sign longer contract with Besiktas player Mario Gomez in the end of the season.

- Fenerbahce player Robin van Persie: I am not going anywhere and will be staying at the club.

- Following MR checkup it became clear that Fenerbahce player Ozan Tufan doesnt have serious injury.

- Ekisehirspor has signed contract with its new head coach Samet Aybaba until end of the season.

- Galatasaray player Burak Yilmaz and Selcuk Inan have become injuried

- It became clear that Besiktas head coach Senol Gunes is not interested to sell club player Alexander Milosevic.

- Porto are interested to sign Fenerbahce player Bruno Alves.

- Trabzonspor administrator Onur Incehasan has resigned from his post.

- Trabzonspor Oscar Cardozo's manager Aykut Dogan: If Galatasaray tries to sign Cardozo it can be possible

What happened in Turkish football today? 17.11

Control but low tempo by Turkey during frienly game against Greece. 

Turkish national team has continued its preparation for the Euro 2016 final tournament which will take place next year in France with the friendly game with its neighbours Greece. The game which took place with low tempo was in control of Turkish national team.

The result of the game which has ended with goalless draw, should not be surprising as it was friendly game and in addition it allowed for Turkey to end 2015 year without loss. Including friendlies and Euro 2016 qualifies Turkey has got 7 wins and 3 draws during that period.

Returning to the game, Turkey has played with a control but without taking any risks at game with sudden finding attacks which it could not turn into goals. Biggest advantage of the game was providing young players and first timers to get a fill of responsibility and stress of playing for own country, this experience will be advantage for future call to the team which qualified to European Championship.

However, one thing is certain team needs to play its next friendly games in March with more tougher opponents, possibly even with the teams which has qualified to final tournament. Those opponents will provide idea how much Turkey is ready for France.

Impatience at the Trabzonspor makes some players unhappy.

Following termination of the contract by Trabzonspor and Jose Bosingwa few weeks ago, another player has terminated contract with most talked club in Turkey in recent weeks. Kevin Constant who was among key players has ended his contract, after he have joined club 3 years ago.

Almost back to back termination of contracts of those two players seems to show that there is also issues taking place among players and administrators at Trabzonspor and raises questions if more names will carry on ending their contract in team. It is hard to play at the Trabzonspor especially with impatient fans and clubs administration, especially CEO Ibrahim Haciosmanoglu who puts pressure into team.

Reason of the impatience is of not getting league titles for almost 20 years, even through club would argue that it did become 3 years ago but its was stolen from them. New players at the club, especially foreigners, should now that this pressure at club could have negative sides to them before joining such passionate team.
Samet Aybaba could solve Eskisehirspor issues.

Eskisehirspor, club which has bad season and has arleady managed to change head coaches twice following 11 weeks of this season, has appointed experienced Samet Aybaba as head coach.

Samet Aybaba is among numerous head coaches who have managed teams which are mediocre in Turkish league and should be able to treat issues of bad results in those clubs. But Eskisehirspor is way below its game potential and has high amount of issues which should be solved. It is important for Samet Aybaba to treat this issues one by one and have patience with the administrators of club.

Compare to previous head coach, Ismail Kartal, Samet Aybaba should be able to solve those issues due of his experience but it is important that players also give right reaction to probably big changes which Samet Aybaba will bring in the club.

Results
International Friendly Game
Turkey 0:0 Greece

In other news: 

- Galatasaray head coach Hamza Hamzaoglu: Of course we are having transfer negotiations for January but its not right time to discuss this. We wanted to buy Oumar Niasse but it didnt work out. He is playing good now in Lokomotiv Moscow.

- Galatasaray sports director Cenk Ergun: We might discuss about transfer of Burak Yilmaz according to deal.

- Besiktas has declined Schalke 04 transfer offer for its player Olcay Sahan

- It became clear that Trabzonspor sports director Suleyman Hurma had paid 110,000 Euro while Sinan Zengin paid 30,000 euro to Dame Ndoye

- Dnipro player Douglas Silva manager Malik Arutyunov:Currently weareclose to agree with Lazio.But if Galatasaray sends good offer it can change

- Besiktas CEO Fikret Orman plans to keep club head coach Senol Gunes for 2 more years.
- It became that if Muharrem Usta becomes new CEO of Trabzonspor he will appoint Can Cobanoglu as new sports director of club

- Galatasaray would not sell Burak Yilmaz and Fernando Muslera in January transfer window.

- Celil Hekimoglu has announced his candidacy for Trabzonspor CEO position.

- Kasimpasa player Ryan Donk has told Galatasaray that he would like to play for them.

- Galatasaray player Aurelian Chedjou has become injured while being with Cameroon National Team.

- Besiktas has ended transfer with Marsilya player Nicolas Nkoulau due of high signature fee from player manager.

- Trabzonspor CEO candidate Tahsin Usta: Our aim will be to make Trabzonspor at winning condition. We need to make peace at the club.

- Basaksehirspor player Bekir Irtegun has started criminal investigation with a supporter who have cursed during the game against Kasimpasa

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What happened in Turkish football today? 16.11

Greece friendly game is important but still not good enough to show strentgh of Turkey prior to Euro2016.

Since the focus was turned into friendly games of Turkish National Team, our blog has been stated numerous times that Greek friendly game in sense of difficulty should be tougher and provide better idea for Turkish Head Coach Fatih Terim prior to Euro 2016 about level of national team and players at the squad. However, Greek national team should not be mistaken with the one which has won Euro 2004.

Greece national team since that unexpected glory in 2004 was going downwards and was among worst teams during qualification stage of Euro 2016 and probably biggest dissapointment of whole campaign. Therefore, this friendly game tomorrow will not be as easy as against Qatar, however it is still not an opponent which will make team ready for Euro2016.

Turkish head coach Fatih Terim has said himself that he actually wanted to play with more higher level teams but it was harder to agree with them but stated that Turkish Football Federation will try its best to agree with some of them for March 2016 international friendly break. One thing which is crucial as stated in the  previous blogs this week is to provide good performance and check new names.

Galatasaray is losing Semih Kaya

It is known for several period of weeks that Galatasaray player Semih Kaya shows some unhappiness of him being in substitute at the team while team itself is putting him into substitute. There is high expectation that Semih might be leaving club as soon as January transfer window.

Today morning some of the news outlets in Turkey stated that Semih Kaya has agreed with one of the European teams presumably Inter Milan and will be returning to his older head coach Roberto Mancini. However, Galatasaray has declined this news with press release.

Galatasaray should make decision if it wants to keep Semih Kaya as the player wants to play frequently and perform rather than sitting in bench and feel needless. If Galatasaray doesnt treat this issue rightly, Semih Kaya could easily leave club this winter.

Robin van Persie leave to Barcelona might not be that simple

Another player from big 3 which club looks to be losing is Robin van Persie at Fenerbahce, who is rumoured to have negotiations with Barcelona while speding international friendly games break in Amsterdam. In contrast to Galatasaray, following news was not declined taking account that Fenerbahce is known to make announcements of untrue stories in fast pace.

Robin van Persie case is interesting as his unhappiness is more regarded of not playing enough and with rumours in this week that he is aware that it is his fault after not included in Dutch national team has shown some aspects of Persie focus into improvement and staying at current club. So the following news, if true, should be treated in some extended unexpected.

Fenerbahce for now will surely try its best to keep van Persie due of cash used to transfer him, hope of him improving and key role he plays at club. Barcelona might agree with Persie but it wont be easy to make deal with Fenerbahce.

Schedule: 
International Friendly Games
20:15 Turkey- Greece

In other news: 

- Roma has offered 5.5 million Euro to Fenerbahce for transfer of Salih Ucan.

- Fenerbahce player Volkan Sen has attended training session after recovering from injury.

- Galatasaray has begun negotiations with Dnipro player Douglas Silva.

- Eskisehirspor are having negotiations with Slovenian coach Slavisa Stojanovic.

- It became clear that both Galatasaray and Fenerbahce had negotiations with Besiktas player Atiba Hutchinson this summer.

- Chelsea are interested to sign Besiktas player Mario Gomez.

- Trabzon Prosecutor has begun criminal investigation regarding of Trabzonspor keeping referees at the stadium followng Gaziantepspor game.

- Galatasaray are having negotiations with Milan player De Jong.

- PSV Eindoven are interested to sign Fenerbahce player Mehmet Topal.

- Fenerbahce players Lazar Markovic, Abdoulaye Ba and Caner Erkin show fast recovery from injury.

- Antalyaspor are interested to transfer ‪Altinordu‬ players Gokhan Yilmaz and Halil Ibrahim Tuna.

- Besiktas are interested to transfer River Plate player Balanta and Chelsea player Papy Djilobodji

- Bursaspor head coach Ertuglul Saglam: Our players deserve better training facilities. Currently there is construction of new training areas

- Galatasaray player Selcuk Inan, Burak Yilmaz, Hakan Balta and Lionel Carole have recovered from injuries and will be able to play against Antalyaspor.

What happened in Turkish football today? 15.11

Besiktas should reduce stress of Mario Gomez which he had in Paris.

One of the main people who has been affected by terrorist attacks in the Paris was undoubtedly Besiktas player Mario Gomez, who was present at the friendly game between France and Germany. It is reported that following terror attack club administrators could not reach him as due of distress Gomez has closed his phone.

It was known that Mario Gomez was reluctant to come to Istanbul in summer after the terrorist attack at the Suruc. Therefore, currently best player in Besiktas is clworried, as most people are, about his own security and therefore condition in Turkey during that time. It is known that Besiktas has tried its best to comfort him and insisted that Istanbul is very safe city to stay at back in summer.

Therefore, it should not be surprising that Mario Gomez has such a psychological reaction after events which took place in Paris, which surely made everyone shocked who was at city. Now its time for Besiktas, as the club, to treat him psychologically as the aftermath of shock could affect his performance at upcoming games.

Calling of two young first-timers to national team is great chance for them to show themselves to Fatih Terim 

Turkish national team head coach Fatih Terim after friendly game against Qatar has stated that he might call new names to the national team to check their skills. Prior to game against Greece, he has called Schalke04 player Kaan Ayhan and also Altinordu player Caglar Soyuncu.

Both players, apart of youth national team, does not have experience at senior team. As the chance of them to be at Euro2016 squad are low, it is perfect chance for them to prove their can play at that level in 2-3 years time as age allows them to do so. Fatih Terim as said yesterday is looking for strong substitute and reserve team for Euro2016. And those names are important to make their mark.
As similar manner as game agaisnt Qatar, Greece is more performance centred rather than scoreline as players try their best to prove Fatih Terim that their deserve place at national team.

Haciosmanoglu is only one who can solve club issues.

Trabzonspor CEO Ibrahim Haciosmanoglu has been criticised pretty heavily at our blog and generally in Turkish media by his words in last few years regarding of issues which club been dealt with. However, it is important to note that he is being pretty popular by the Trabzonspor fans and is very likely to become CEO once again in upcoming elections.

The club is also going through the election where it is pretty uncertain if other candidates are strong enough to get into spot where club is going through tough times and have so many issues such as match-fixing scandal, referee issues and now head coach search. For the club to solve those issues in good manner new CEO should be experiences and able to make tough decisions.

It is certain that club upto to elections in December would be going through interesting times and candidates need to prove that their can solve those issues at the club and Haciosmanoglu is one step ahead of others due of experience.

In other news: 

- Eskisehirspor is having negotiations with ex-Vartas Elazigspor head coach Bayram Bektas.

- Besiktas has announced that its debt is 1,117,772,030 TL.

- Besiktas player Alexander Milosevic has been called to Sweden National Team for 2nd leg of Euro2016 play-off game against Denmark.

- Galatasaray player Lionel Carole does not expected to return to pitch earlier than month.

-There are rumours that Fenerbahce player Robin van Persie has met with Barcelona administrators in Amsterdam

- Galatasaray are interested to sign Norwich City player Dieumerci Mbokani

- It became clear that prior to friendly game Osmanlispor player Bilal Aziz has broke nose to Adana Demirspor assistant coach Fatih Cardak.

- Galatasaray player Lukas Podolski won't play at friendly game between Germany and Holland to give them rest.

- Azerbaijan Football Federation has called for Trabzonspor players Dogucan Oksuz and Murat Cem Akpinar has been called to under-17 Azerbaijan national team.

- Galatasaray are interested to sign Palmeiras player Arouca.

- Galatasaray are interested to sign Juventus player Simone Zaza.

- Besiktas are interested to transfer Kasimpasa player Oscar Scarione.

- Bursaspor are interested to sign Kasimpasa player Ryan Donk

- Shanghai Shenhua player Demba Ba manager Ahmet Bulut: It is impossible for Galatasaray to transfer Demba Ba, he costs 13 million Euro.

- AlI ttihad are interested to sign Besiktas player Sosa.

- InterMilan are interested to sign Fenerbahce player Ozan Tufan

- Antalya local channel VTV: Antalyaspor are interested to appoint Fabio Capello as head coach of team.

What happened in Turkish football today? 14.11

Paris attacks raises some concerns about Euro 2016.

Yesterday's uncomprehensible terror attacks by, presumably, ISIS in Paris which happened during friendly game between France and Germany open questions of the security at the next year of Euro 2016.

The reason of the attacks of course is not only based into upcoming European Championships but the timing of the game of two giants does question security of the tournament to take place. With Turkey being at the competition also, it could quite reasonably question security of the its national team also, as ISIS has stated numerously that it will do attacks in Turkey.

Despite of there is not much terror attacks to be taking place during sports events it is known that those events is being vurnerable for such events hence rise of security. UEFA and French Football Federation dont talk about change of location of the Euro 2016 and security but surely this question will be opened. Quite with high possibilty Euro 2016 will take place in France but with extreme security never seen before in previous European Championships.
Game against Greece is crucial for none quarenteed players.

Since friendly game about Qatar and Turkey was a friendly it is more important to look at performance wise at the team than importance of win to the Turkey, even through it does go to FIFA coefficient points. Interestingly, Turkish national team head coach Fatih Terim did show some unhappiness with yesterday performance especially criticising RB Leibzig Atinc Nukan. It is quite understanble that

Fatih Terim despite of games being friendlies, expects best performance by his players especially ones whose place at Euro 2016 squad is not guareenteed. For instance, Arda Turan, Caner Erkin, Mehmet Topan and Hakan Calhanoglu places are quareenteed but players like Atinc Nukan need still to prove to get its place in squad.

Fatih Terim did state that he will include other names for Greece game so it is certain that Terim is uncertain about substitute and reserve players at team, who could be crucial due of possible injuries taking place during tournament in France. Therefore, to some extend Greece game is more important to uncertain players.

Vodafone Arena might be ready on March. 

Besiktas is starting countdown for the opening of the Vodafone Arena, its home ground at which roof construction is coming to its conclusion. It is expected that stadium will be opened around March 2016 and expects to end its league marathon at the home ground possibly lifting title.

Besiktas poor performance towards end of the season in the previous years had many factors but one of the main was the lack of stadium. Now, assuming in March (after around 12-13 games) Besiktas is still at the title race it will have great advantage for a club to lifting title. In either way, it will affect certainly next season to the club.

Meanwhile, it is forecasted that stadium might be ready on 26th week game against Antalyaspor which could be played on 19th March. 19 March has been treated by Besiktas fans as "World's Besiktas Day" (19.03- year when Besiktas was founded).

In other news:

- Trabzonspor ex-head coach Ersun Yanal has complained to Turkish Football Federation about not recieving wage from Trabzonspor.

- Trabzonspor CEO Ibrahim Haciosmanoglu: People show me like I am agressive. But I am white-black man. When needed I am good, but can be bad. I am not one who is been judging, its Trabzonspor which is been judged.

- It became clear that Galatasaray would not punish ‪‎Umut Bulut‬ for red card in game against Rizespor, and would see it as referee mistak

-  Bursaspor player Ricardo Faty has become injured and wont be able to play for 4 weeks.

- It became clear that Inter Milan head coach Roberto Mancini is certain to transfer Bursaspor player Serdar Aziz.

- Galatasaray player Semih Kaya will think about transfer offers which he will recieve during winter transfer window.

- Manchester United are interested to sign Besiktas player Mario Gomez.

What happened in Turkish football today? 13.11

Game against Qatar was great chance to look at new names for Turkey.

Friendly game against Qatar for Turkish National Team was played for an opportunity to see its strength against team which aims to be successful in future and also test new names, such as Atinc Nukan and Yunus Malli, who have played first games for national team.

The game was played as it was expected for the friendly game, in a calm and mediocre tempo. Qatar has showed some aspects of development at its football as it began winning the game with 1:0 scoreline being proof of that. However, in Turkish view of the game it was mainly important to see how would Turkish players provide its performances. Atinc Nukan, who has played for first time, did not provide great football which could be described of having season where he is being injured for most of the season at the RB Leibzig while Yunus Malli has shown some signs of his play.

It was also an important game for Besiktas player Cenk Tosun who has scored his first goal which was also  winning goal of game, which is good news for him and Turkish national team prior to Euro 2016 as Tosun is capable to score lots of effective goals but only managed to do so in today's friendly.

Turkey now will focus into its next friendly game against Greece, which could be sligthly stronger opponent and provide better idea of current situation of Turkish National Team. But most important for Turkey for this two games is to check its new names, and today's opportunity by Fatih Terim was used in good way.

Loaned players are providing better performance than transfer ones.

So far at this season, it became observant that players which were loaned this summer are providing better performance than actual players which were brought by clubs. For instance, Galatasaray player Jason Denayer loaned from Manchester City, Fenerbahce player Lazar Markovic from Liverpool and especially Besiktas player Mario Gomez from Fiorentina.

As the transfer window of January going to open all those clubs are planning to have negotiations with clubs which players to be loaned to discuss about purchase of the player or at least extension of loan. According to media reports, all of the players mentioned above are eager to stay in Istanbul and play for club. It is known that despite of some questions prior to coming to Turkey, eventually foreign players enjoy playing at Turkish league.

Arguably all this players provided better than bought Robin van Persie in Fenerbahce, Lukas Podolski in Besiktas, and could be stated that are more wanted at the club. Now all those big 3 teams need to focus to keep those players especially taking around that players want to stay reportedly.

Problem seems to be at Eskisehirspor not with Kartal.

Eskisehirspor head coach Ismail Kartal has been resigned from his position in around one month after being appointed after resignation of Michael Skibbe.

As Kartal became head coach of the team club didnt manage to win a single game at the league so far. Which also opens questions if Ismail Kartal was one to blame or there are some issues at the strenght of the club. It is surprising that head coach like Ismail Kartal didnt manage to bring any wins.

Now Eskisehirspor needs to bring head coach with a positive attitute and good discipline so he would be able to bring out maximum from players which obviously lack of motivation in a team.

Results
International friendly game
Qatar 2:1 Turkey

In other news:

- Antalyaspor and AC Milan are start work cooperation between each other. It became clear that Milan will offer players as loan to Antalyaspor

- Inter Milan head coach Roberto Mancini: I am here to watch conditions in Qatar as we will make camp in January here.


- Galatasaray is planning to keep Jason Denayer for another year and have negotiations about it with Manchester City.

- UEFA has announced that Turkish referee Cuneyt Cakir will referee EURO 2016 play-off 2nd leg game between Slovenia and Ukraine on17th November

- Akhisar Belediyespor player Guray Vural: I would like to work with Hamza Hamzaoglu and be transferred to Galatasaray.

- UEFA has announced that Turkish referee observer Oguz Sarvan will observe EURO 2016 play-off 1st leg game between Sweden and Denmark.

- Fenerbahce is planning to buy its current loan player Abdoulaye Ba and extend contract with Bruno Alves and Raul Meireles.

- It became clear that most of Trabzonspor administrators would like to Mustafa Denizli as new head coach of the team.

- Fenerbahce are once again interested to transfer Valencia player Feghouli

- Galatasaray are interested to sign Trabzonspor player Oscar Cardozo.

- Konyaspor will play friendly game against Kasimpasa on 14th November.

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Sevilla player Ciro Immobile.

- Konyaspor player Dimitar Rangerov has recovered from injury and has joined training session today.

- Caykur Rizespor will play friendly game against Dinamo Batumi on 15th November.

- Mersin Idman Yurdu: The general meeting which was scheduled to take place on 14th November is cancelled.

What happened in Turkish football today? 12.11

Passolig should be simplified not cancelled.

Constitutional Court as been expected has declined a case against electronic ticket system Passolig, which was requested to be cancelled by a number of fans, with the support of CHP party.

As it is been talked frequently in Turkey Passolig system was criticised for the confusion of the system and too much technology to be present which confuses ordinary people. For instance, it is known that owners of Passolig is much higher than actual fans who visit at the games in stadium. Reasons of this could be either of quality of football, price of tickets or confusion of the system. Passolig as the system is needed for security but the way it is done  should be simplified.

The argument was cancellation was for taking too much information from card owner but the information available at the system is same as in simple passport. However the simplified system would bring some lost fans back to stadiums.

Turkish national team game against Qatar should be used to identify weaknesses.

Tomorrow Turkish national team will play against Qatar National Team in Doha, as it been stated in yesterday blog as the first test prior to Euro2016 final tournament taking place in France next summer.

As been stated yesterday, this game will provide chance for a team to check new and young names such as Atinc Nukan and Yunus Malli, and start realising weaknesses which should be focussed at prior to Euro2016.

Unfortunately for Turkey, Qatar won't be able to provide clear idea as it is not in strength of most teams qualified to France, but still it is good opponent to find weaknesses of players themselves which happen just in game.

Trabzonspor football team won't solve it issues as those issues beyond players.

Reaction of the resignation of Trabzonspor head coach Shota Arveladze is still taking place today around Turkish footballing world. Today's club player Erkan Zengin has stated that he is saddened to hear resignation and has stated that players should find mistakes in themselves.

Trabzonspor current CEO Ibrahim Haciosmanglu was changing head coaches so frequently during his reign that it is unsurprising to call him impatient and see this resignation to take place. The timing is also quesitonable as it is hard to find replacement as mid-season, especially when club is liking for big name.

To be honest, I dont think resignation of Shota Arveladze would solve issues at the football team as the issues is deeper in the club, even beyond control of football team.

Schedule
International Friendly Game
19:30 Qatar-Turkey

In other news:

- It was reported that Fenerbahce player Fernandao has lost blood pressure and lost conscience next to his apartment.

- Eskisehirspor head coach Ismail Kartal has resigned from his position

- Trabzonspor player Jose Bosingwa has stated that his contract with club is terminated.

- Arbitration Court has approved the punishments to Trabzonspor regarding of events taking place following game against Gaziantepsor.

- Antalyaspor are interested to sign New York City player Andrea Pirlo

- Professional Football Disciplinary Committee has came decision that next home game of Bursaspor will be played without supporters.

- MustafaDenizli: I didnt recieve any offers from Trabzonspor, hence there is no need for comments about it.

- Galatasaray are interested to sign Eskisehirpsor player Raheem Lawal

- Galatasaray are interested to sign midfielder and attacker in January transfer window.

- Trabzonspor ex-head coach Shota Arveladze: It was right decision for me to be head coach at this time. I am not sorry about anything.For strange reason, people are not happy about team. Fans should support players.

- AkhisarBelediyespor head coach Cihat Arslan has visited to Serbia and has watched 4 Serbian League games.

- Fenerbahce are interested to sign Borussia Dortmund player NuriSahin.

- It became clear that Galatasaray according to deal with Genoa club sitll plays 1,350 thousand euro to Dzeimalli.

- Besiktas: Our debt for 30th September is 926,6 million TL (317.5 million Dollars)

- Galatasaray player Sinan Gumus might be going to Rizespor, Koray Gunter to Basaksehir, Tarik Camdal to Eskisehirspor

- Galatasaray are interested to sign New York City player David Villa

- Rizespor head coach Hikmet Karaman has went to Vienna, Austria to look for two players for winter transfer.