What happened in Turkish football today? 20/10/2018

Fenerbahce has an issue at finding goals at last 3 weeks.

Fenerbahce carried on providing poor performance at the Super League as it has ended game against Sivasspor during 9th week game with goalless draw and didnt provide much improvement of its game prior to national team break.

It was stated several times prior to this game, that this national team break could provide an important motivation with the mood of the training camp between players and also many factors to be discussed inside the team both inside at the club and also statements from Ali Koc. One of the main factors of the Fenerbahce during this game in negative aspect without doubt has been for team not to find goals during last 3 weeks, with last 2 games ending with goalless draw. It could be stated that in positive aspect Fenerbahce didnt concede goals during last 2 weeks but still it could be hard to state that whole squad is making good performance as their is high number of the mistakes been done during whole squad during game. Still, Fenerbahce didnt provide very strong midfield and attacking players not being able to get good chances apart of 2nd half performance as it has created high number of the chances but still it didnt provide great performance and still needs to raise level of performance if it wants to start winning games as this games are not good enough.

Sivasspor needs to provide didnt also provide strong opposition to the Fenerbahce and didnt get into more chances and even to some extend has made some mistakes at the defence so it can be stated that it was lucky to meet with Fenerbahce on this poor performance.

Fenerbahce didnt manage to win game as it got into high amount of the chances but it hard to say that it was one who has been side to deserve win tonight and still needs to improve a lot.

Fatih Terim didnt adapt to injuries during Sivasspor game.

Galatasaray has got an important 1 point against Bursaspor during Super League 9th week due of all circumstances which includes having some injuries prior to game and also recieving 3 injuries during 1st half.

Without doubt, Galatasaray injuries of Serdar Aziz, Fernandao and Sofiane Feghouli has affected to the tactics which has been at the mind of Fatih Terim when game has started and with this outcomes it was quite natural for game to get into hand of Bursaspor which did improve performance of the game as game has been developed and has found goal on ending penalty kick after Muslera saved. In fact, Bursaspor did show good game after scoring for 10 minutes but after conceding goal from Eren Derdiyok has turned around game. Still it was important for Galatasaray to get focussed into game after conceding goal in those circumstances and even look for a win even when it didnt get much into how it wanted to play. Stating that it could be bit criticised for Fatih Terim for not adapting to how game has been played as it was played still 11-on-11.

Galatasaray needs to improve its performance for Schalke 04 game as this would not be enough and taking account it would play in similar squad due of seriousness of injuries and see how it can maximum performance with players at hand.

Besiktas would come out against Goztepe with lots of injuries. 

Besiktas would resume Turkish Super League after national team break with one of the tough opponents of the league Goztepe with missing some players for the game due of injury.

Besiktas will not be coming out with strongest squad with missing key players such as Adriano, Pepe and Ljajic and with taking account of poor performance of the team during away games as it didnt win for long time and without those players against strong supporters of the Goztepe at its home ground. Besiktas hence as been stated would have tough time with Goztepe during game, and without doubt Goztepe would aim to turn this into their own advantage during game and hence would be aiming to show attacking seeking game and prevent Besiktas to show their great game. Still, Besiktas in all of this comments does have good team and can turn around this game into its strong hand despite of all downsides it experiences right now.

Besiktas would come out as favourite still but it wont be an easy game at all for them and need to give lots of the effort.

Results:
Turkish Super League, 9th week:
Kasimpasa 5:0 Akhisarspor
Basaksehirspor 1:0 Kayserispor
Sivasspor 0:0 Fenerbahce

Schedule:
Turkish Super League, 9th week:
13:30 Rizespor - Konyaspor
16:00 Ankaragucu - Yeni Malatyaspor
16:00 Alanyaspor - Antalyaspor
19:00 Goztepe - Besiktas

In other news:

- Besiktas players Adriano, Adem Ljajic and Pepe will not start against Goztepe during Super League 9th week game due of injury.

- Fenerbahce player Benzia and Islam Slimani will not start against Sivasspor during Super League 9th week game due of injury.

- Valencia are interested to transfer Galatasaray player Garry Rodrigues.

- Arsenal are interested to transfer Roma player Cengiz Under.

- Fenerbahce has declined transfer offer of Tolgahan Aslan from Besiktas in return of Ozan Tufan and either Mauricio Isla, Sener Ozbayrakli or Nabil Dirar.

- Besiktas has offered 2.5 million euro salary and 2+1 year contract for extension for its player Ryan Babel but player requests 3.5 million euro salary for 3-year contract with 4,000 euro bonus for each point gained.

What happened in Turkish football today? 19/10/2018

Galatasaray has got draw despite of losing 3 players due of injury in 1st half. 

Galatasaray has managed to get draw against Bursaspor with help of Eren Derdiyok goal during Super League 9th week game which has ended up being much more tougher than Istanbul side has been expected for sure.

The game where Galatasaray did come out as strong favourite, with unexpected injuries of Galatasaray which led for 3 substitutes during 1st half and also high number of players looking to be tired during game has affected to the score and performance of the team. It needs to be also noted that Galatasaray has shown one of the least effective games at its own stadium during this season with game being played pretty low tempo, until 77th minute when Eren Derdiyok has scored goal. Injuries of Serhat Aziz, Feghouli and Fernandao did affect for the game as Galatasaray didnt provide tactically what Galatasaray head coach Fatih Terim has been wanted and how game to be but Eren Derdiyok goal at least has managed played to make all criticism as his goal possibility has found an important goal. Galatasaray still despite of providing such difficulty during 2nd half still managed to provide good performance during 2nd half, even through Bursaspor has also shown good performance in some moments.

Bursaspor meanwhile did show full focus for the game after it has won last game against Ankaragucu and did see this game as good opportunity to get motivation and confidence. Despite of losing 2 points, this draw with taking account that it has played against league leaders could help team to get highly motivated for upcoming games.

The game has been played at high tempo especially 2nd half with both wanting to win and it need to be stated that draw has been fair result.

Fenerbahce only focus would be to win Sivasspor without doubt.

Fenerbahce would be resumed Turkish Super League with 9th week game against Sivasspor following international team break and with getting high motivation during training camp during this break would see game as new beginning.

With high number of crises taking place at the club during last period, statements which was provided by CEO Ali Koc last week to some extend has also reduced tension which was present among players and also head coach Phillip Cocu and this has led played to be highly motivated for the game agaisnt Sivasspor. Even through most people will be unhappy with decision of Koc to keep Cocu, it would mean that the system will not be broken prior ot the game, and it would be able to keep into high motivation. Without doubt, Cocu during national team break has managed to provide much more explanation of system of play which he wants from his side. Therefore, it would be reasonable to await much better Fenerbahce during game and hence would be seen as favourite for the game despite of its position. Stating that, with poor performance of Fenerbahce, Sivasspor would be aiming to provide some good fighting.

Fenerbahce does see this game as start of new beginning and with showing some improvements against Basaksehirspor would be focus to win Sivasspor with giving all its effort to achieve that.

CAS would have first hearing about match-fixing on 15th December. 

CAS has announced that it would start case of match-fixing which was send by Trabzonspor regarding of infamous 2011-12 season first hearing on 15th December.

Even through this decision would make Trabzonspor administrators happy, their do consider to ask to postpone this hearing as been stated by administration Omer Bulbuloglu stating that their would be CEO election and with possibility of new administration to be elected, their might not have time to get enough information in hand for this hearing. Stating that it would make number of Trabzonspor administrators and supporters to get those news and without doubt this would be new chapter of the ongoing match-fixing season at which Fenerbahce has won league title with ending same points with Trabzonspor. With Trabzonspor being stating for long time that match-fixing did take place regardless of issue between FETO, it would need to provide strong defence at hearing.

As it is known, Fenerbahce does have upper-hand as it managed to prove that FETO, which is in general is unpopular for known reason, has faked all this match-fixing allegation and Trabzonspor argument that match-fixing did take place doesnt have muchsupport right now.

Results:
Turkish Super League, 9th week:
Galatasaray 1:1 Bursaspor

Schedule:
Turkish Super League, 9th week:
13:30 Kasimpasa - Akhisarspor
16:00 Basaksehirspor - Kayserispor
19:00 Sivasspor - Fenerbahce

In other news:

- Fenerbahce has signed sponsorship deal with Avis as it would appear into front of the shirt.

- Trabzonspor has signed sponsorship deal with Papara card.

- Kayseri mayor Mustafa Celik has stated that municipality would provide 6 million TL as investment for Kayserispor facility.

- Konyaspor player Paulo Hurtado became injured during national team training camp and will not be able to play for 6 weeks.

- Fenerbahce considers to take out of squad Uygar Mert Zeybek and Serhat Kot according to some rumours.

- Besiktas players Atiba Hutchinson, Cyle Larin, Gary Medel and Enzo Roco has resumed training session after returning from national team camp.

What happened in Turkish football today? 18/10/2018

Galatasaray are not coming to the game with great squad against Bursaspor.

Turkish Super League is going to be resumed with a game of 9th week game between Galatasaray and Bursaspor, as Istanbul giant side would be aiming to carry on its impressive home advantage against struggling side, even through Galatasaray will not be coming out with strongest side.

With high number of key players at squad such as Henri Onyekuru, Sofiane Feghouli and Younes Belhanda being injured and also Garry Rodrigigues and Yuto Nagatomo being tired and are not planned to take place at game due of upcoming Champions League game against Schalke 04 would be playing in pretty not ideal side. Stating side club has got high motivation with extension of contract of Fatih Terim and would be coming out with such mood and also as leaders of the Super League. The game will not be an easy one as Bursaspor quite rightfully dont see themselves at the position where their must be right now and with this factor would come out to the game to be showing good performance and look for a win with Galatasaray who are not coming out with ideal squad. Galatasaray hence are favourites but it wont specifically easy game for them.

This game could be seen as good chance to go for rotation prior to Champions League but team needs to show high performance during game to keep its small advantage as leaders of the league.

Fenerbahce are showing stronger togetherness at training camps.

During this week, it needs to be noted that Fenerbahce has got high motivational boost at the training sessions with team having stronger with each other as administration has aimed to provide togetherness at the team.

Even through Fenerbahce faces does to be happier and start having more fun time, it needs to be noted that whole staff is still aware of the seriousness their are at the league as their are currently at 16th place at the table. This togetherness which followed into drastic changes within club and blames thrown to each other would provide right motivation at the mind of the players and push them forward for upcoming games start with 20th October game against Sivasspor. During statements which been provided by players especially Jailson and Michael Frey does show determination and awareness of the seriousness of situation but its always imprortant for them to turn those words into action in upcoming games.

Fenerbahce are capable to turn its fate at Europa League and also start showing good performance at the Super League.

Galatasaray and Besiktas are interested with Liverpool player Divick Origi. 

It is reported that both Galatasaray and Besiktas are interested to transfer Liverpool player Divock
Origi who was uncapable to show high level performance at Merseyside side and club considers to loan player in January.

However, as would been expected economical situation at both sides could provide some difficulty at making agreement with Besiktas has some advantage due of arleady making with Liverpool with Loris Karius, as Besiktas does consider to provide similar offer. Both teams does need to have attackers players, but to some extend Galatasaray is more desperate for that spot as it only has 1 player, namely Eren Derdiyok, while Besiktas does have them but their are not capable to show top performance. With taking this into account it would be expecting for Galatasaray to be more agressive with transfer talks with both Liverpool and Divick Origi during mid-season transfer window negotiations. With window getting closer it would become clear how successful both sides would be.

It is good news for both sides that Liverpool considers to loan Origi but their would be other clubs interested with him in England and around Europe.

Schedule:
Turkish Super League,9th week:
20:30 Galatasaray - Bursaspor

In other news:

- Fenerbahce CEO Ali Koc would have meeting with team player Volkan Demirel regarding his future at the club.

- Turkish referee Arda Kardesler will attend to UEFA Centre of Refereeing Excellence course between 18-25th October.

- Trabzonspor would have general meeting on 26th October.

- Fenerbahce sports director Damien Comolli: I am having talks with players. Their are in good mood and in good focus. Their aware about situation we are in at performance wise.

- Besiktas are interested to transfer Lazio player Patric Gabarron

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Roma player Rick Karsdorp.

- Fenerbahce player Nabil Dirar has declined transfer offer from Toulouse.

- Trabzonspor are interested to transfer Milan player Cristian Zapata.

- Galatasaray head coach Fatih Terim salary for extended contract of 2+3 years will be 20,000,000 TL.

What happened in Turkish football today? 17/10/2018

Galatasaray considers to extend contract of its potential star Ozan Kabak for 5 years.

Galatasaray is aiming to extend contract with its player Ozan Kabak, whose contract ends on 2020, for 5 more years with hoping to such talented player at its hand and not lose him to other clubs in upcoming transfer windows.

This willingness and early action could be understable as it became clear that Inter Milan are starting having interest towards player and started gathering information from him. Ozan Kabak among young Turkish football at the Super League is showing strong potential and could become future star both at Turkish National Team and also Galatasaray so it is reasonable for his club to see this potential which he can provide for future years with also taking account that with Fatih Terim being as head coach could provide great boost to his performance in upcoming years. It is expected that when Galatasaray would start transfer talks with player, he would be able to make an agreement and sign this contract as he is being happy at the team and reported to be strong Galatasaray supporter for long time also.

Galatasaray is aware that it needs to move faster until other clubs would be seriously considering to sign him and such an action would prevent using potential star of the club and country. 

Besiktas considers to sell its player Domadoj Vida in January.

With early rumours coming up for mid-season transfer window, it is reported that Besiktas has once again considers to sell its player Domadoj Vida as it did during summer transfer window for the reasons of the FFP.

It has been reported earlier this week, that Al Ittihad who is coached by Slaven Bilic is interested to transfer him among Gokhan Tore. Even through Domadoj Vida is showing great performance at the Besiktas this season and plays important role at the back with being also one of the stars of World Cup 2018, selling him would provide lots of relaxation regarding of FFP finances and possibly help to transfer/loan some names in winter in much relaxed manner including getting an attacker which are among one of the issues at the side right now. With Domadoj Vida also recieving strong interest from countries outside Turkey it can reasonably expect to make good cash, and hence and regardless how this blog doesnt like to see players as tool for finances at clubs, it is case right now and could provide lots of cash into the club.

Of course, it was rumoured a lot during summer transfer window for same reasons but player did stay at the club and as mid-season transfer window would start it would become clear about Vida future at club.

Footballing career of Arda is very uncertain.

Future of Basaksehirspor player Arda Turan, regardless of criminal case, is currently uncertain as their are possibility that club would only be patient of him until mid-season transfer and later would be aiming to sell him outside of country.

In fact, it is reported strongly that Barcelona also taking account of what is happening with Arda Turan, as he is loaned to Basaksehirspor, and are very unhappy with such his behaviour regarding of Turkish singer Berkay and hence there is even reports that their are expecting for contract to be terminated. In fact, if this accident did happen in Spain their would terminated with no issues. In fact, with case in Russia where Kokorin and Mamayev has beat up at cafe and streets has led for Zenit and Krasnodar to looking ways to terminate contract for him. Basaksehirspor interestingly doesnt consider to go such harsh decision but does thing to sell him possibly to China.

With all that said it does need to be remembered that Arda can even be arrested as their is request to lock him for 12.5 years with court regarding case would start in January.

In other news:

-  Trabzonspor has won training game against its under-21 side with 6:0 scoreline.

- Galatasaray players Selcuk Inan, Ryan Donk and Martin Linnes has resumed training sessions after recovering from injury while Younes Belhanda and Garry Rodrigues recovery process has become.

- Besiktas player Adem Ljajic didnt complete training game against club under-21 side due of feeling pain.

- Trabzonspor player Oganyi Onazi is expected to start against Erzurumspor during Super League 9th week game.

- Besiktas CEO Fikret Orman have stated that he didnt call for resignation of Central Referee Committee CEO Yusuf Namoglu.

- Fenerbahce under-21 goalkeeper trainer Erdem Bali has been appointed as club's goalkeeper trainer.

- Galatasaray player Ryan Donk expects to recover fully from injury for Champions League 3rd week game against Schalke 04.

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Erzurumspor player Ibrahim Sehic.

- Besiktas considers to start with Tolga Zengin during Europa League 3rd week game against Genk.

What happened in Turkish football today? 16/10/2018

Arda Turan has recieved 2,500,000 TL fine from his club.

Basaksehirspor has announced that it would provide 2,500,000 TL fine to its player Arda Turan following an incident at the bar in Istanbul which involved fight with Turkish singer Berkay after he told singer wife that he would date her if he wasnt married.

This issue has been taking into showbiz sector therefore our blog and twitter account has ignored this news but their was question how Basaksehirspor would respond for such behaviour by their star player. It needs to be noted that Arda Turan has provided previous ugly behaviours such as threatening senior journalist at following national team game at the plane, and has threatened referee during last season game which led him to have 16-game ban which ends in this weekend. Basaksehirspor has provided one of the biggest fines in the history of Turkish football but there was strong expectation that team would end contract with him but side has stated that until conclusion of criminal case his contract with side would be intact. There is good chance he would play game during this weekend against Kayserispor despite of all his actions last week.

Future and trust towards Arda Turan has been over with his main ambassador of Turkish football days certainly being over and many people calling for him to get professional help for his actions.

Galatasaray has extended contract with Fatih Terim until 2022. 

Galatasaray has extended contract of its head coach Fatih Terim until 2022 as would been expected as he carries on moving team forward in this difficult season and carries on being leading coach at the team history.

There were talks that Galatasaray would be aiming to extend contract with Fatih Terim in upcoming days with all sides being satisfied with each other and with deal to be made in short notice. And as soon this news start coming out, Terim and Galatasaray administration has made this deal and both team and Terim would be seeking to write history at the team aiming for league title this season and have good season at Champions League. This news would also provide an important motivation for upcoming weeks including during Super League 9th week game against Bursaspor on 19th October and later against Schalke 04 at Champions League. As been mentioned this decision has been very expected as Galatasaray carries on showing good performance despite of lacking attackers at the field.

Fatih Terim extension as mentioned would make everyone satisfied who is involved at team and their would be aiming for new achievements in this period.

Adem Ljajic has resumed his training sessions after minor injury at national team camp.

Besiktas player Adem Ljajic has shown pretty fast recovery from his injury which he has got from national team break and is expected to take place during Super League 9th week game against Konyaspor.

Adem Ljajic has become injured as he has joined his national team and became injured at 1st training sessions but it became clear that injury has not been very serious and player has resumed his training session. Being one of the key players at the side for sure, he would be able to be 100% as other players and is expected to provide once again top performance this weekend against Konyaspor and also next week Europa League game against Genk. With being one of the key players in the recent week with hope that he would be carry on improving as player would keep Besiktas head coach Senol Gunes satisfied for sure for upcoming games.

Hence, Ljajic would be able to play his key role at the midfielding position in the upcoming weeks for certain.

In other news:

- Trabzonspor player Mustafa Akbas will not be able to play for 3-4 weeks due of injury.

- Bursaspor has appointed Ivko Gancev as goalkeeper trainer and Zlatko Yankov as assistant coach.

- Galatasaray player Eren Derdiyok has resumed training sessions after recovering from injury.

- Goztepe: Their is been several times criticism towards referee performance but somehow it always happens prior to our games. We hope that referee would not affect our game against Besiktas.

- TFF and Central Referee Committee organised break referee seminar has been concluded.

- Besiktas considers to loan Everton player Cenk Tosun for 6 months.

- UEFA has found press conference room at Galatasaray stadium as not enough for guidelines. Club has calculated that it need to spend 160,000 TL to solve this issue.

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Manchester City player Oleksandr Zinchenko.

- Besiktas are interested to transfer Midjylland player Erik Sviatchenko.

- Fenerbahce player Volkan Demirel cant start personal training as their is no goalkeeper trainer available to take care of him.

- YeniMalatyaspor players Erkan Kas and Ertac Ozbir are expected to start against Ankaragucu during Super League 9th week game.

- Fenerbahce player Mehmet Ekici expects to start against Sivasspor during Super League 9th week game.

What happened in Turkish football today? 15/10/2018

Turkey has provided poor performance against Russia at Nations League.

Russian National Team has managed to win Turkish National Team at Nations League League B Group 2 game with 2:0 scoreline and didnt have much trouble from Turkey during whole game.

With this result, Turkish National Team has lost its chances to end group stage at the top spot and would now have meeting on 17th November against Sweden which it must win if it doesnt want to find itself at the relegation to the League C. Apart of losing to well in-form side of Russia, which carries on showing top level performance following World Cup 2018 memorable performance, Turkey didnt provide much fighting spirit and organisation with to some extend letting their opponents ot have even easier game then their would have expected. It is true that Turkey is going through important changes with its youth players and does build team for future, but currently it is not strong enough. Apart of number of good chances, Turkey did fail to get upper hand of the game at all allowing Russia to be one to control game especially during 1st half. Turkey needs to get important lessons from this performance and needs to be careful against Sweden next month to keep chances to stay at League B.

Turkey did provide poor performance against Sweden even through their were signs of hope from games against Sweden and Bosnia but didnt manage to show themselves that their are not worser than Russia right now.

Turkish National Team needs to improve and get good results soon.

Despite of the fact, that Turkey did provide some good performance agaisnt Bosnia and in fact provided some good hope against Russia, it is visible that team in this period at least had problems at scoring goals.

With current performances against Bosnia and Russia, Turkey did actually into some good chances but their had wasted some important changes or didnt manage to get into much better chances when their had opportunities. Current system led also from shot from far away due of not good formation at the front and far shots are more or less related to chance. It is true that this team needs patience right now and capable at bringing good results in the future, but currently its not showing good improvement with sometimes showing great performance and as yesterday not to so good. In fact, their is also clear some defensive issue as Turkey has conceded 2 goals in all of the Nations League so far, with aiming to stop this negative statistics next month against Sweden. With Cenk Tosun possibly most key role in those two games due of captaincy and age didnt provide this aspect and did manage also to move team forward which also an area which needs to be focussed.

Turkey does have potential but it needs to show some good performance in upcoming games to make this potential into actual results as early as possible.

Besiktas aims to sell Gokhan Tore in January. 

Besiktas has decided to sell its player Gokhan Tore during upcoming mid-season transfer window as his latest behaviour keeps team unsatisfied, especially during under-21 training game behaviour with Senol Gunes.

It is reported that number of Spanish clubs are interested to purchase Tore and this seems to be best option and even through his worth has fallen to 3 million euro as he didnt play for long time due of injury, team would naturally aim to get as much as it can from this possible possible sending him to team in level of Huesca. It is clear that relationship between Gokhan Tore and Besiktas head coach Senol Gunes among other technical staff is not going well as was become clear during under-21 where both had an argument which led Tore to go to changing room in the middle of the game.

Therefore, it can be stated that team would be aiming to sell him as soon as possible with Spanish sides for now being best option.

In other news:

- Galatasaray has send complaint case to CAS regarding of UEFA decision to revise club deal with them regarding of FFP deal.

- Kayserispor would have CEO election on 3rd November, if majority is not gathered it would move to 10th November.

- Basaksehirspor would have meeting today regarding its player Arda Turan to decide what actions should be done towards him.

- Besiktas player Adem Ljajic will resume training sessions tomorrow.

- Manchester United are interested to transfer Alanyaspor player Merih Demiral.

- Arsenal are interested to transfer Roma player Cengiz Under.

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Spartak Moscow player Luiz Adriano, Zenit player Aleksandr Kokorin and Shandong Luneng player Diego Tardelli

- Trabzonspor players Burak Yilmaz (18,200,000 TL), Onur Kivrak (11,700,000 TL) and Olcay Sahan(8,840,000 TL) salaries has been changed from euro to TL with 1TL=5.2 euro frozen exchage rate

- Besiktas player Adriano will not be able to play against Goztepe during Super League 9th week game due of injury.

- Trabzonspor are interested to transfer Hertha Berlin player Muhammet Kiprit.

- Basaksehirspor player Emre Belozoglu has resumed his training sessions after resuming from injury.

- Porto player Yacine Brahimi manager Luis Alanso would arrive to Istanbul to have one-on-one negotiations with Besiktas.

- Fenerbahce considers to move to 2-4-2-2 formation in upcoming games.

- Goztepe player Kadu expected to play against Besiktas during Super League 9th week game.

- Antalyaspor player Nazim Sangare aims to play for Turkish National Team.

- Fenerbahce player Islam Slimani is expected to play against Sivasspor during Super League 9th week game.

- Fenerbahce ex-coach Aykut Kocaman has provided data about team last season performance personally to club sports director Damien Comolli before start of the season.

- Bursaspor player Abdullahi Shehu became injured during Nigeria and Libya African Nations Cup 2019 qualifiers.

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer SIPG player Lei Wu.

- Unnamed English club are interested to appoint Fenerbahce head coach Phillip Cocu as club's head coach.

- Besiktas considers to sell its player Domadoj Vida during mid-season transfer window.

- TFF are interested to appoint coaches Kemal Ozdes, Yilmaz Vural and Tayfun Korkut as Turkish National Team head coach role.

What happened in Turkish football today? 14/10/2018

Turkey has lost chance to win group with 2:0 loss against Sweden. 

Turkish National Team didnt provide a great performance during Russia during Nations League League B Group 2 and has lost game with 2:0 scoreline and has lost opportunity to end its group at top spot and get to the play-off round for Nations League League B group.

With following result Russia has recieved 7 points following this game with 2 games left at the group while Turkey has stayed with 3 points with 1 game and hence has lost all opportunities to end group at the top place. It does need to be stated that with performances prior to today's game during Sweden and Bosnia it did provide some strong optimism for supporters of Turkish football but it needs to be noted that Russia compare to those two opponents are in better position. However, most importantly Turkey has been also far from their own performance which would provide good results to them and didnt provide high level performance. Turkey didnt manage to show great passing game today and has been specifically slow at going forward while from beginning Russia has shown a good attacking game looking for goals and not allowing Turkey to get control of the game. Stating that, Turkey did create some good chances and did provide some good chances but as game with Bosnia did fail to find goal as one goal could change many things for them. This game did show that team needs to still improve to get into high level performance.

Russia meanwhile carries on showing high level performance following World Cup with pretty dominant game and despite of poor performance against Sweden, it did look much more organised team and has dominated game. Right now even draw against Sweden would make them group winner if Sweden beats Turkey.

Turkish National Team didnt get into the mood of the game which it needed not to lose points and right now would need to focus to Sweden game so it wont be relegated to League C.

Sacked assistant coaches would like to have meeting with Ali Koc.

Fenerbahce ex-assistant coaches Tulgay Altay, Murat Ozturk and Alper Asci who has been sacked from their position into news that their had prevented current coach Phillip Cocu to provide high level performance at the team with some prevention has requested to meet with Ali Koc to provide their self-defence.

Ali Koc and Fenerbahce decision to end contract with those coaches who has worked with previous coach Aykut Kocaman has been announced due of the factor that their had shown some serious operation to prevent Phillip Cocu to get good results with current side at providing information from previous season. It was known that those names has been decided to have an announcement but changed their mind as decided at 1st to have meeting with Ali Koc to provide their defence to the CEO and make it clear that all this rumours which were provided to him doesnt represent the truth. There are also rumours that Phillip Cocu was surprised with such decision and their were sacked from reports provided from sports director Damien Comolli. It is important for now for Koc to accept this from ex-coaches and get reported from what happened in this case from their perspectives.

This meeting could be one of the most crucial aspects of this on going situation and could even lead to changes of decision from Ali Koc.

Besiktas would have meeting with Feyenoord player Orkun Kocuk later this month. 

Besiktas meanwhile is contuning there works for mid-season transfer window as their would have meeting with Feyenoord young player Orkun Kocuk with who it was interested with summer transfer window but didnt make deal due of economical reasons.

It is been reported that one of the main reasons why Besiktas has decided to make their actions even earlier than usual is for strong interest for Barcelona to transfer player during mid-season transfer window, which led Besiktas to plan meeting both with Feyenoord and Kocuk on 19th October to discuss about how player is seeing his future and he would like to join still during mid-season transfer window. The meeting would be able for Besiktas to draw road map regarding of transfer works for Orkun Kocuk in upcoming period especially as mid-season transfer window would come closer.

This transfer would be good investment for future of the club but Barcelona might provide strong opposition towards Besiktas transfer works.

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