This year, Galatasaray fans are experiencing great excitement. There is a team that lives it. There are happy, excited and supportive fans that we see from the outside. We have only one goal, to be the champion.
There will be criticism. You play in Turkey’s biggest club. The expectation is high. The result will be criticized. As long as there is goodwill, we have to accept it. Football is not right. Everyone’s opinion is different. The most easily interpreted sport. Whoever we put in the bench, they say how hard it is to watch a match from here. I think everyone can get something from everyone. There will be criticism, but our path is straight. We are playing well. If you are establishing such a large staff, of course, we can also receive criticism over the Turkish rule of entry and exit. I respect all of them, but when we look at the top four places of the league, the league leader also scored 11 goals. Konyaspor in third place also scored a low goal. We did not reach very high number of goals. Unlike last year, there is a Galatasaray that conceded less goals. We are playing a dominant game. It comes out as statistics. We are not fully staffed yet. Icardi hasn’t had time yet. Mata played in one more official match. Our newly arrived players took a little time. We performed as well as this winner without fully forming our squad 100 percent. After creating it fully, we won’t be able to play all foreign players together as there are three Turkish rules. All players will contribute to us. We’re kicking off this week. We don’t have a team to prepare for. We will play among ourselves. We’re going to try different things this week. This will also help us.
What did Okan Buruk say about Icardi?
No Icardi issues. He came and started training with his friends. Good taste. good character. Everyone can think of Icardi differently, but he is a player who has good relations with his teammates and coaching staff. He had a tough week last week. The team took three days off. He went to his country and came back. He started working. It works well. We will see him ready on the field.
Foreign rule criticism
I haven’t seen anyone say anything good about the 8+3 rule. I wonder who’s happy about the stranger rule. The teachers are unhappy, the management is unhappy, the players are unhappy, the fans are unhappy. Everything was going better before this rule came out. We all see that the 8+3 rule is wrong. How will this rule contribute to Turkish football? Hopefully this mistake will be corrected. There is a mistake here, as Turkish player play is evaluated on non-play. We know TFF is working on this. We will try to adapt to it from now on. We have difficulties in transferring Turkish football players. We continue to work on producing players from the infrastructure. It is difficult for us to find a Turkish player in terms of defender. A lot of money is being asked when we find it. 5-6 million Euros are requested. This creates difficulties for us. But we will try to solve it from the inside.
The league is tough and close to each other as we expected. There is Basaksehir, there is Adana Demirspor. I think it will go like this until halftime. Quality is good, but the biggest problem in Turkish football is the players trying to pass the time and the referees who allow it. Turkish football needs to speed up the matches. The quality will increase as the matches speed up. Audience taste will go up. We are a team trying to play fast. Although it is a quality league, we will always complain about the quality of Turkish football as long as there are teams and referees trying to bring it down.
A call for support to Kreme and Yunus
After the last match, Kerem and Yunus were criticized. We trust them. They played a lot of matches, and took few vacations. We will be very supportive of them. Important players for Galatasaray. Both our fans and we need support. We can clearly see that there is an attempt to confuse Galatasaray through Kerem and Yunus. We trust all our players. There may be players who have low form and can’t give what they want, but we have to support them.
We need to see how far we could get the ball to Seferovic. It should be evaluated on that as well. It works well, we sat down and talked yesterday. He went under pressure without scoring a goal. I will try to get the most out of Seferovic-Gomis-Icardi. I have a hard job with this too. “Seferovic started very well. He was effective in the friendly matches. We need to think about how much we fed him ourselves. Did we play a game suitable for him? We need to evaluate him. He is working well. He was under psychological pressure unless he scored.