What happened in Turkish football today? 09/02/2022

Trabzonspor are through with tough win against Denizlispor.

Trabzonspor gets to quarter-final of the Turkish Cup after beating 2nd division opponent Denizlispor but it needs to be mentioned it wasnt easy win for league leaders as Denizlispor provided strong resistance to the side.

Trabzonspor did come out to the game with some players which didnt recieve lots of playing time mainly due of tough upcoming game in the league against Konyaspor as Trabzonspor did provide some attacking game. In fact, things did go well as been planned for them as their found good goal with Huseyin Turkmen on 8th minute however without finding 2nd goal for rest of the half, did kept Denizlispor which did come with some confidence with beating Galatasaray on previous round which did pay out as their found important goal with Cecenoglu. Without doubt, Trabzonspor didnt want to go to extra time which led them providing some more opportunities in organised manner and did found winning goal from Kouassi who did score his 1st goal for his new team and hence without doubt did get important confidence for upcoming weeks. 

Denizlispor did come as would be expected as underdogs to the game but it have confidence from beating Galatasaray on previous round and it did look like to be case with providing brave game being almost close to extra time. Despite of being relegated, Denizlispor could be satisfied with its performance in this competition.

Trabzonspor are through to quarter-final with beating Denizlispor and now as side would be aiming for sure to the double in the end of hte season.

Fenerbahce continues its poor performance at Turkish Cup.

Fenerbahce has been relegated from Turkish Cup last 16 with losing to Kayserispor by conceding at the last minute from Ramazan Civeli while playing with extra men for 2nd half.

Fenerbahce continues providing very poor performance during this season as this time it did lose to Kayserispor even through its been side which did control 1st half and dominated 2nd half but does seem to be having similar issue which does Besiktas have with converting opportunities with attackers. Even through to some extend situation is even worser with them, since Besiktas does provide some shots to the goal for most amount of time with having converting issue while Fenerbahce have issues to even get higher shots into goal. It was observed that Fenerbahce been provided some performance where it seeked some opportunities but it needs to be mentioned that Kayserispor did focus, quite rightly, into defensive and organised game and through bit of luck did find goal in the last minute with Civelek, and even through it did look like Fenerbahce deserved it more when looking into organisation its been deserved win for Kayserispor.

Fenerbahce continues providing poor game and has ended its season at least domestically with getting only way to get some title in ineffective manner.

Besiktas likely would focus to score against Goztepe

Besiktas would be getting back to Turkish Cup with pretty tough opponent Goztepe as side does provide some good performance while for Besiktas this competition in similar manner as was for Fenerbahce is being only tournament to end with title.

Besiktas it needs to be mentioned also doesnt have high conversation rate of scoring its opportunities during previous 2 games and would without doubt be focussed to solve such issue however it needs to be mentioned that Goztepe during recent games does provide strong defensive organised game as it became strong confident side and hence this task would be pretty difficult to achieve for Besiktas. It would be also interesting to see if Besiktas would provide different focus into Turkish Cup as it does to Super League as this is being only option for them to end season with title.

Besiktas would be having tough opponent but there is expectation that they would be giving strong focus to the game.

Results:

Turkish Cup, Last 16:

Bandirmaspor 2:4 Sivasspor

Hatayspor 0:2 Antalyaspor

Denizlispor 1:2 Trabzonspor

Schedule:

Turkish Cup, Last 16: 

17:30 Alanyaspor - Adana Demirspor

20:30 Besiktas - Goztepe 

In other news:

- Super League clubs has made in total 72 transfers during mid-season transfer window spending 11.4 million euro.

- - Alanyaspor has loaned Eyupspor player Erencan Yardimci until end of the season.

- Giresunspor has declined statements which were made by its player Younes Sankhare towards club.

- Galatasaray player Mustafa Muhammed had his 1st training session at club since returning from Africa Nations Cup 2022

- Fenerbahce player Altay Bayindir has resumed training session following recovery from injury.

- Besiktas player Valentin Rosier has become injured

- Besiktas are interested to appoint Vitesse head coach Thomas Letsch.

- Besiktas has made transfer deal with Genoa player Caleb Ekuban for next season.

- Lille player Burak Yilmaz would like to return to Besiktas during summer transfer window.

What happened in Turkish football today? 08/02/2022

Fenerbahce has conceded on last minute despite having extra men for 45 minutes.

Fenerbahce has conceded goal at the last minute of the game by its former player Ramazan Civelik as it dominated whole 2nd half with playing one extra men and continues providing highly dissapointing performance.

There were expectations that Fenerbahce would be taking Turkish Cup in much more serious note due of poor performance at the Super League and hence expected to take game much more serious. It needs to be mentioned that to some extend Fenerbahce looked to be providing much more agressive game which it shown in the league with looking more willingly to opportunities compare to Kayserispor especially during 2nd half when opponent been left with 10 men due of very clear red card. However, Fenerbahce did lack at providing last shot as some been provided in poor manner while other opportunities been to some extend unlucky as it did into post. Hence, Fenerbahce did have some serious issues with conversion tonight and have lost with old football rule: you dont score, there would score to you. Fenerbahce are now out of Turkish Cup, and lost its chances for title in the league and without doubt this been another poor season with Ali Koc being club CEO.

Kayserispor did look to be showing ineffective game at first glance with providing hardly any opportunities but it has shown strong organised defensive game with lots of patient which led for its finding goal on last minute and get to quarter-final of the Turkish Cup.

Things are going pretty bad for Fenerbahce with only target for rest of the season seems to be Conference League but even threre there doesnt seem to be much optimism at the side.

Trabzonspor would be focussing for double in the end of the season.

Without doubt Trabzonspor would be also set an aim to end this season with double as it would be meeting with lower division opponent Denizlispor which provided surprising result in previous round by beating Galatasaray.

Trabzonspor even through does show some decline in performance wise during recent weeks is still being at the great form and would be focussing to carry on such performance both to continue its winning streat and hence confidence and also continuing possibility to be ending season with double. Even through it could be seen that Trabzonspor would be meeting with lower division side, its opponents did get win against Galatasaray through penalties in previous rounds and this would provide some extra motivation to the side letting them believe that they can continue such strong performance with another big club. Hence, Trabzonspor are favourites but it would be having some tough game in this fixture.

With Trabzonspor likely would be focussing into ending season at double, it would provide performance according to that. 

Eyupspor has loaned Galatasaray player Ogulcan Caglayan.

Eyupspor has loaned Galatasaray player Ogulcan Caglayan with transfer option as lower division side continues getting some eye-catching transfers during this mid-season transfer window.

With deadline being passed, there wasnt especially much activity in the last day with Eyupspor possibly getting one of the most eye-catching transfer of the day as it did get player which had lots of expectations in recent seasons but didnt provide enough strong performance which could be due of some issues which clubs had with Rizespor regarding of the player. Caglayan without doubt would get some more playing time in the Eyupspor and get into level which people were accepting for him.

To some extend, this move could be good opportunity for Ogulcan Caglayan to get into previous form rather then going behind in career ladder.

Results:

Turkish Cup, Last 16: 

Kasimpasa 1:2 Gaziantep

Fatih Karagumruk 5:4 Konyaspor

Fenerbahce 0:1 Kayserispor

Schedule:

Turkish Cup, Last 16:

13:30 Bandirmaspor - Sivasspor

17:30 Hatayspor - Antalyaspor

20:30 Denizlispor - Trabzonspor

In other news:

- Rizespor CEO Tahir Kiran got 25,000 TL fine for anti-sportmanship statements from PFDK.

- Antalyaspor has transferred Fenerbahce player Sinan Gumus.

- AdanaDemirspor has signed Loic Remy.

- Bursaspor has loaned Gaziantep player Yusuf Turk and transferred Enver Cen kSahin from same club. 

- NigdeAnadolu has loaned Galatasaray player BerkBalaban until end of the season.

-Hatayspor has loaned #Dijon player #YassineBenzia until end of the season.

- Gaziantep has used transfer option of Le Havre player Ertugrul Ersoy until 2025.

- AdanaDemirspor are interested to transfer Besiktas player Gokhan Tore.

- Kasimpasa has transferred Rayane Aabid.

- Kayserispor players Mario Gavranovic, Emir Demir and Gustavo Campanharo got positive Covid19 test results. 

- Galatasaray has signed professional contract with its academy player Selman Faruk Dilbek until 2024.

- AdanaDemirspor has loaned Rizespor player Dajman Djokovic until end of the season

- Basaksehirspor has loaned Aston Villa player Trezeguet and Benfica player Pizzi until end oft he season.

- Konyaspor has terminated contract with its player Artem Kravets.

- YeniMalatyaspor has transferred Samsunspor player Baris Basdas until end of the season

- Kasimpasa transferred Standard Liege player Jackson Muleka and Midjylland player Awer Mabil.

- Galatasaray considers to sell its player Arda Turan in the end of the season.

- Liverpool are interested to transfer Trabzonspor player Ugurcan Cakir.

- Getafe player Enes Unal is expected to be called to Turkish National Team for World Cup 2022 qualifiers play-off games in March.

What happened in Turkish football today? 07/02/2022

Galatasaray continues losing points with poor game.

Galatasaray continues being close to relegation zone as it drawn against Alanyaspor with 1:1 scoreline and being 3 point above of Antalyaspor with providing very poor performance against opponents.

It is true that Galatasaray did come out slighly as underdogs against opponents due of recent form of both sides, but it needs to be mentioned that Alanyaspor didnt provide very good performance and also they did play with 10 men during last 20 minutes. However, during this last 20 minutes Galatasaray did only have shot into goal once with Sofiane Feghouli while opponent looked to be much more dangerous and this by itself shows issue of the club especially during decline of performance during last minutes in all games. Positive aspects which could be taken from game are fast response from Kerem Akturkoglu following conceding goal and good performance from Inaki Pena but overall its been dissapointing game.

Galatasaray would need to improve its performance if it doesnt want to find itself inside relegation zone in short notice.

Besiktas has issues with converting chances.

Besiktas continues having issues with converting opportunities as it did dominate whole 2nd goal at Antalyaspor half but still didnt score single goal.

During recent periods, it became clear that Besiktas are having some serious decline with its performance in attacking level with getting high number of opportunities to find goal but fails to convert them and it does look like willingness player is there but getting goals affects negatively and it should be area which needs to be focussed on training sessions. Still, it does need to be mentioned that Boffin did provide some crucial saves during 90 minutes of the game and did play important role for this point as Antalyaspor didnt provide much danger in the attack for most amount of the time.

Hence, this ineffective attacking game does provide some worry and it should be focussed into upcoming training session if it wants to get Conference League spots.

Fenerbahce would focus into Turkish Cup.

Fenerbahce would be now focussed into Turkish Cup last 16 game against Kayserispor, as both sides would be focussed to provide stronger performance in this competition as their have unsuccessful performance in the league.

Fenerbahce would likely to focus Conference League and Turkish Cup even more as it got far from Super League title race and hence could be motivated more into this game as it would be expected that it could come out with mixture of main players and reserves. However, with continuing showing poor game in the league it could be problematic for side to be focussed into Turkish Cup and provide top level game due of lack of confidence. Kayserispor is aware of this and likely to use this issue into its own advantage during game.

Fenerbahce likely to focus to Turkish Cup more right now but it could be tough to show top game.

Results:

Turkish Cup, Last 16:

14:30 Kasimpasa - Gaziantep

17:30 Fatih Karagumruk - Konyaspor

20:30 Fenerbahce- Kayserispor

In other news:

- PFDK referalls:

- Trabzonspor has been referred for events on field

- Kasimpasa trainer Sami Ugurlu and massage Rahman Karaagac has been referred for anti-sportmanship behaviour.

- Fenerbahce has been referred for behaviour of fans,

- Galatasaray player Omar Ellabdellou players licence has been released

- TurkishCup quarter-final and semi-final draw would be taking place on 11th February.

- Trabzonspor has signed Bayer Leverkusen player Emirhan Gedikli for 4.5 years for 800,000 TL with 2 installments. During 1st season player will recieve 2,000,000 TL, 2nd 4,000,000 TL, 3rd 4,500,000 TL, 4th 5,000,000 TL, 5th 5,500,000 TL, 6th 6,000,000 TL.

- YeniMalatyaspor player Adem Buyuk has been appointed as sports representative and would continue playing career in same time.

- Rizespor has loaned Basaksehirspor player Carlos Ponck until end of the season.

- YeniMalatyaspor CEO Adil Gevrek: We did recieve transfer offers for Mustafa Eskihellac from Besiktas and Konyaspor. We set transfer fee as 3 million euro. There is no deal yet with both clubs.

- Jammerbugt has loaned Basaksehirspor players Alya Toure and Tidiany Bangoura until end of the season.

 - Basaksehirspor has terminated contract with its player Miguel Viera.

- Sivasspor has loaned Dijon player Moussa Konate.

- YeniMalatyaspor has terminated contract with its head coach Marius Sumudica.

- Galatasaray has terminated contract with its player Mbiaye Diagne.

- Antalyaspor has made transfer deal with Fenerbahce player  Sinan Gumus.

- Fenerbahce has offered 2.2 million euro to Santos for Felipe Jonathan.

- YeniMalatyaspor has terminated contract with its player Rayana Aabid.

- Giresunspor has made transfer deal with Benfica player Chiquinho.

- Kasimpasa has made transfer deal with Rayane Aabid.

What happened in Turkish football today? 06/02/2022

Galatasaray gets 1 point against Alanyaspor.

Galatasaray 1:1 draw against in-form Alanyaspor and did provide some signs of improvement from previous weeks but still didnt get win with Gabriel Torrent in his 4th game as being head coach of the side and currently being 3 points from relegation zone. 

It needs to be mentioned that Galatasaray did treat this game as opportunity to have new beginning both with getting results and providing some more convincing games and even through it did manage to get important 1 point from tough opponent like Alanyaspor, it still didnt look very creative and confident when coming to the attack, showing low opportunities and chances. Even through it does need to be mentioned that fast reaction from conceded goal on 39th minute from Eduardo as it did find goal with Kerem Akturkoglu on 41st minute should be seen as positive aspect. In fact, when taking account that Galatasaray did play with extra men for 20 minutes and not still finding winning goal does show issues which it has at attack. Coming to 1st game of Inaki Pena, it needs to be mentioned that he did show good performance with having some crucial saves.

Alanyaspor did provide good performance against opponent which is struggling but currently looks way to get further from relegation zone so it could be noted it did provide good performance but needed to be more careful after scoring.

Galatasaray, due of their conditions, did get good results against team which are being currently in better form then them but when looking on table it will not be necessarily with point.

Besiktas dominated game but couldnt score.

Super League 24th week game between Besiktas and Antalyaspor has ended with goalless draw despite of the fact that Besiktas has dominated game with creating high number of opportunities especially during 2nd half.

It needs to be mentioned that Besiktas did provide strong and attacking game during whole game, with especially 2nd half but couldnt find goal due of confident and strong performance of Antalyaspor goalkeeper Boffin who made crucial saves and in addition to this Besiktas did get into high number of posts as this result could provide some damage for Conference League spots. Therefore, with Besiktas providing good performance willingness to win game and also showing spirit for win, to some extend its been unlucky however this been 2nd game back to back where Besiktas didnt struggle to score with high amount of opportunities which does show that side does have issues with converting goals which could be due  of issues with last touches or creativity but more into providing needed shots which does look to be area to be worked on by Onder Karaveli.

Antalyaspor meanwhile did provide mostly into defensive game without providing too much attacking game and should be thankful for great performance of the Boffin as Antalyaspor did get important point to stay in the league.

Besiktas continues to create opportunities but does have some issues with converting opportunities which could lead them losing points in upcoming weeks too.

Trabzonspor has some decline even through it did get win.

Trabzonspor continues getting winning result and keeps 9 point difference with Konyaspor with having an extra hand but it needs to be mentioned that it didnt provide very good performance against Kasimpasa during 2nd half.

Even through Trabzonspor did get back-to-back wins and still looks to be closest side for title with 14 games left in the season, there is signs of decline with its performance which been present in recent weeks which could be due of lack of concentration or starting getting pressure when getting close to title aims. It needs to be mentioned that to some extend there been lucky with getting such result as Kasimpasa didnt convert high number of opportunities during game without converting some of the key opportunities even through it did get some opportunity to find goal when hitting to post. This been important win and motivational boost prior to game against Konyaspor next week but it needs to be aware that there is decline with performance.

Trabzonspor did get one step closer to title but performance wise there is some warning signs which it needs to be aware of.

Results:

Turkish Super League, 24th week:

Alanyaspor 1:1 Galatasaray

Rizespor 1:3 Adana Demirspor

Besiktas 0:0 Antalyaspor

Goztepe 0:2 Altay

In other news:

- Lille player Burak Yilmaz has become injured.

- Fenerbahce player Irfan Can Kahveci has become injured.

- Hatayspor has terminated contract with its player Bulent Cevahir.

­- BayerLeverkusen player Emirhan Gedikli has arrived to Trabzon for one-on-one transfer negotiations with Trabzonspor.

-Eyupspor has made transfer deal with Galatasaray player Ogulcan Caglayan.

- Arsenal player Alexander Lacazette has requested 6 million salary from Besiktas..

What happened in Turkish football today? 05/02/2022

Trabzonspor got minumum win thanks to Edin Visca goal

Trabzonspor has got an important win against in-form Kasimpasa with minumum scoreline thanks to the goal from Edin Visca at what ended up being pretty tough game as both sides did play for win.

It needs to be mentioned that Trabzonspor didnt provide its best performance in this game especially during 2nd half where it went mainly into defensive game especially after when sides did play with 10-on-10 as both Eyserrac from Kasimpasa and Bruno Peres at Trabzonspor been send off in questionable manner. Trabzonspor did get fast start in the game with getting some good opportunities which led for goal from Edin Visca but it needs to be noted that Kasimpasa did also create some opportunities during that period with being better side on 2nd half. Hence, even through Trabzonspor did win game its hard to state it did show full dominance of the game with losing some control in duration of 90 minutes and it needs to be showing better game next week against Konyaspor. Most pleasant factor is being for Edin Visca to find goal especially winning one as he is expected to play important role for title aims of the side.

Kasimpasa it needs to be mentioend did provide good open positive game and in most times actually looked better than Trabzonspor but with many opportunities it did lack last touch which led them not to find crucial goal.

Trabzonspor did show some decline with its performance in this game but still showed good concentration to the game but it needs to be aware that its not dominating games as it did before in the league.

National team break didnt change much for Fenerbahce as it lost to Basaksehirspor.

Fenerbahce continues at getting poor result at the Super League as it did lost to Basaksehirspor with 1:0 scoreline and even through it did get some good moments during game in overall didnt provide much pressure to opponent.

With both sides coming out to the game focussing into Conference League spots, it hard to note that there has been specific motivation from both players as game has been played in low tempo and both sides did look to be far from high motivation, even through Basaksehirspor did look to be more organised. Stating that Fenerbahce played without doubt did come out for win but this feeling of psychological pressure due of recent poor results did continue in such game which does show that Ismail Kartal didnt manage to sort out low confidence and motivation of the players. With getting further from title race with each point loss, Fenerbahce in same time loses concentration and belief and with supporters once again especially after 1:0 providing protests towards administration has alos affected even more to self-belief. 

It needs to be mentioned that even through Basaksehirspor did look to be more organised compare to opponent, it is hard to note that it also provided good performance which it did show with Emre Belozoglu when he joined club in start. Therefore, this result should not trick Belozoglu.

Fenerbahce would be playing against Kayserispor at Turkish Cup and getting this tournament is still being one of the aims it would be expected for players to be more motivated to this game.

Galatasaray will aim to start getting further from relegation area but it would be tough game.

Galatasaray would be resuming Super League journey with an aim to get further from relegation zone as it would be meeting with in-form Alanyaspor which in their turn would be focussing at least for Conference League spot in the end of the season.

Galatasaray is having pretty nervous day without doubt as Gabriel Torrent since becoming head coach of the side didnt win any of his 3 games without providing much impressive performance but he did get opportunity to train more with his side during national team break and we might be seeing some more signs of game which he would be focussing on for in this side and how he would be focussing into providing game performance with 1st focus without doubt being get further from relegation. Alanyaspor in their turn does provide strong positive game in recent weeks and would be focussing to carry doing so against Galatasaray with being confident it can get good result for sure. 

Galatasaray would be seeing this game as start for getting some good results but it would be meeting with tough opponent which provides strong confident game in recent weeks.

Results:

Turkish Super League, 24th week:

Gaziantep 5:1 Sivasspor

Trabzonspor 1:0 Kasimpasa

Fatih Karagumruk 1:0 Yeni Malatyaspor

Fenerbahce 0:1 Basaksehirspor

Schedule:

Turkish Super League, 24th week:

16:00 Alanyaspor- Galatasaray

16:00 Rizespor - Adana Demirspor

19:00 Besiktas - Antalyaspor

19:00 Goztepe - Altay

In other news:

- Fenerbahce has announced its debt to be 5,977,000,000 TL

- Rizespor has terminated contract with its player Loic Remy.

- Umraniyespor has transferred Fenerbahce player Fatih Yigit Santurk

- Goztepe has announced that 1 player got positive Covid19 test result.

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Waalwijk player Ahmed Touba.

- Besiktas is expecting to recieve at least 7-8 million euro with 30% share from next transfer from Olympique Lyon for Ridvan Yilmaz.

- Rizespor has made loan deal with Basaksehirspor player Carlos Ponck

What happened in Turkish football today? 04/02/2022

Trabzonspor are coming out as strong favourites against Kasimpasa.

Trabzonspor are going to resume season after national team break with pure focus of getting win against Kasimpasa which even through is being underdog can always provide some pressure to big clubs.

With getting some transfers during this national team break in its disposal and ones which been signed beforehand getting more used to the team during training sessions it is expected for Trabzonspor to get much more focussed and getting closer to the performance which it showed in start of the season as despite of keeping leadership in the league, it did lose some points but did get important motivation and confidence with getting crucial win against Galatasaray in last week. Hence, Trabzonspor would be coming with strong confidence and readiness and this would be expected to be affecting into its performance and hence could provide some tough moments for Kasimpasa.

Therefore, Trabzonspor are coming out as clear favourites due of many factors but Kasimpasa still would provide some pressure to them.

Fenerbahce would focus into having new beginning against Basaksehirspor.

Fenerbahce would be coming to pretty tough game against Basaksehirspor which even through are in decline still does provide good dangerous game with Emre Belozoglu being head coach.

Fenerbahce are currently focussed into providing much more confident and strong performance with Ismail Kartal and without doubt this been area which it been worked on during national team break and we could see some positive aspects on this but still it is questionable if it could provide strong resistance to Basaksehirspor which also been focussed into becoming stronger in the field and finding good change of system after Edin Visca been sold to Trabzonspor. Fenerbahce would be focussing for win against good opponent and get confidence for rest of the season without doubt in this game and would treated seriously.

Both clubs not showing great performance in recent weeks but could provide some positive strong game if been rightly motivated.

Giresunspor has loaned Muhammet Gumuskaya

Giresunspor has loaned Fenerbahce player Muhammet Gumuskaya until end of the season and did strength with player who is having strong potential for Turkish football.

Without doubt Muhammet Gumuskaya did provide very strong and memorable performance in start of the season especially with providing very good shots from long distance which been observed both during games and training sessions. However, and issue which been pleasant is that clubs are reluctant to play young players but players like this needs to get some playing time and hence his moving to Giresunspor would be good move as it needs to be noted that side is getting strong squad which would keep them very likely out of relegation in the end of the season. Hence, Gumuskaya will also get opportunity to play at ambitious club.

Gumuskaya joining hence is being move which would satisfy all bodies as he could develop at Giresunspor in this period for sure.

Results:

Turkish Super League, 24th week:

Konyaspor 1:0 Giresunspor

Kayserispor 4:3 Hatayspor

Schedule:

Turkish Super League, 24th week:

13:30 Gaziantep - Sivasspor

16:00 Trabzonspor - Kasimpasa

16:00 Fatih Karagumruk - Yeni Malatyaspor

19:00 Fenerbahce - Basaksehirspor

In other news:

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Besiktas player Cyle Larin.

- Fenerbahce are interested to transfer Zenit player Artem  Dzyuba

- Trabzonspor are interested to transfer Napoli player Patric.

- Besiktas are interested to transfer Arsenal player Alexander Lacazette.

- Cilegon are interested to transfer Fenerbahce player Mesut Ozil.

- Fenerbahce has made transfer deal with Cagliali player Charalampos Lykogiannis.

- Kasimpasa has principal deal with Tunay Tuna.

- Alanyaspor has extended contract with its players Serkan Kirintili until 2024 and with Efecan Karaca and TayfunBingol until 2025

- Sivasspor player Ahmet Oguz has become injured.

- Galatasaray has made transfer deal with Santos player Robson Reis for 1.5 million euro for 3.5 years.

- Boluspor has signed Fenerbahce player Bartu Kulbilge for 2.5 years.

- Antalyaspor has organised signing presentation for its players Luis Adriano, Fernando Martins, Alessano Ndao and Admir Mehmedi

- Rizespor has terminated contract with its player Nathan Monzango

What happened in Turkish football today? 03/02/2022

Galatasaray has signed Semih Kaya until end of the season.

Galatasaray has signed contract with Semih Kaya after 1 day he has terminated contract with Yeni Malatyaspor on previous day until end of the season as this deal did come due of good connection between both sides.

Semih Kaya did state beforehand that he would be willing to rejoin Galatasaray at any period of time and conditions which he just did that for this unusual duration of the period and with his experience would be providing strong defensive strength as side aims to get further from relegation zone. Meanwhile, if he manages to provide strong performance during his period at Galatasaray it would be also be expected for sides to extend contract with each other. Hence, this move could been expected even through Semih Kaya did drop in his level of performance.

Semih Kaya hence got good opportunity to prove himself once again in such top club and show his quality to Turkey.

Konyaspor extended contract with Sokol Cikalleshi

Konyaspor has extended contract with one of its key players in recent seasons Sokol Cikalleshi as side is being closest opponent to Trabzonspor at the title race.

Without doubt Konyaspor are having memorable performance during this season with whole side showing strong confident performance and without doubt Sokol Cikalleshi is being one of the players who is showing such strong confident game right now, and being one of the reasons why side is being fighting for title right now. So, therefore it should not be surprsing that contract been extended for 2-years before its been over as player is certainly is always satisfied as Konyaspor without doubt would be focussed to continue providing some pressure to Trabzonspor.

Konyaspor did right thing with such extension as it would provide morale and confidence to Cikalleshi in upcoming weeks.

Ahmet Agaolu got positive Covid19 test result.

Covid19 and especially Omicron variant continues to be affecting whole Turkish community and football especially as Trabzonspor CEO Ahmet Agaoglu did get positive test result.

Without doubt, one of the main motivational boosts for side in this title race and strong advantage has been stance of Ahmet Agaolu and even through he would be continuing providing some support from his house, he will not have direct communication with football side which could have some impact to morale to club but still as team being fully concentrated will not have too much negative impact to them. 

With 110,000+ daily cases in Turkey right now, it needs to be reminded again Covid19 does affect to Turkish public and football world as we wish fast recovery to Ahmet Agaoglu.

Results:

Turkish Super League, 24 week:

20:00 Konyaspor - Giresunspor

20:00 Kayserispor -Hatayspor

In other news:

- Galatasaray player Omar Elabdelloui has got positive Covid19 test result.

- Sivasspor player Leke James had operation

- AtleticoMineiro are interested to transfer Fenerbahce player Luis Gustavo.

- Galatasaray are interested to transfer Santos player Robson Reis.

- Giresunspor head coach Hakan Keles has announced that it has terminated contract with Emre Tasdemir.

- Trabzonspor are interested to transfer Newcastle United player Jamal Lewis.

- Besiktas player Adem Ljajic has declined transfer offers from Yeni Malatyaspor and Giresunspor

- Galatasaray player Bafetembi Gomis has attended his 1st training session in his new club.

- Konyaspor has extended contract of its player Sokol Cikalleshi for 2-years

- Antalyaspor CEO Aziz Cetin has stated that club has made deal with Diego Costa for 1.5 years but since player did degrade city and club he changed his mind.

- Galatasaray has signed professional contract with its academy player Ozgun Baran Aksaka for 3.5 years

- YeniMalatyaspor CEO Marius Sumudica: I and my personnel didnt get paid for 3 months. Some players didnt get paid for 4 months. I dont complain because I think I should be last one to do so. 8 players went to FIFA

- OlympiqueMarseille player Baba Dieng has declined Fenerbahce offer.