Topic: Turkish Super League 2024/25 Season - page 26. (Read 4640 times)

Watching a championship race with three teams really gives us pleasure. What I think now is that Batshuayi was transferred to Galatasaray. Fenerbahçe is about to sign Cenk Tosun from Beşiktaş. There seems to have been an exchange between the players. Icardi is on the agenda with his private life. He and his wife are about to divorce and this will show us whether he will concentrate on football or not.

In the last clubs where he was a coach, he was not given such large transfer opportunities as he had previously at Chelsea or Manchester United, where he had huge transfer budgets available to him. I have no doubt that he would also like to get such an opportunity in Fenerbahce, but unfortunately Fenerbahce is far from the richest club, so the opportunities will not be that great. He is trying to attract several players now, but you are right, for now it all remains at the level of rumors. It is difficult to say whether he will be able to lead Fenerbahce to the championship, with Roma, his results were not very good in Serie A, but he achieved success in the Conference League and Europa League.

I was thinking that Fenerbahce will be one of the most active clubs in summer transfer window after signing Jose Mourinho as the club manager during end of last season. The Portuguese manager is known for being a serial winner of trophies so his  arrival as Fenerbahce manager might help the club win the Turkish Super Lig that they've been runners-up in the last two seasons. The fact that the club haven't made significant signings so far this summer I think means that Jose Mourinho is happy with the quality of players at the club already. The talk about signing Morocco and Sevilla's striker Youssef En-Nesyri o think are still mere rumors until it's finalized.

Fenerbahce haven't made any additions to the main squad. I think all the transfers made so far will be players who will wait on the bench. It is obvious that the team needs a good striker first. They sent Batshuayi away and Cenk Tosun came in as a substitute and rotation player. Now they need to buy a striker to be in the starting 11, but nothing has been finalized yet. There is talk of En nesyri's future but the transfer is currently on hold.

Yes, the UCL qualifying round is very important for Fenerbahce and in this match they are facing Lugano, one of the strongest teams in the Swiss Super League and of course this is not an easy match or one that Fenerbahce can underestimate.
At least Fenerbahce should be able to take advantage in the second leg because they will be playing at home, for the first leg itself it is an away match for Fenerbahce so being able to get draw is success to increase the chances.
I sure that Fenerbahce will really optimize their performance to be able to get out of the UCL qualifying round.

Mourinho has certainly prepared everything well because being able to bring Fenerbahce through the qualifications is already big thing for him, who in his first season was able to lead Fenerbahce to the UCL competition.
First leg match will still take place in less than 2 weeks and this is time that Mourinho can use in training the Fenerbahce squad so that it can be in condition that allows it later.

Obviously Mourinho is really using this games to try to test out what works best for Fernerbahce, I believe with Al Ahli Allan Saint-Maximin coming into play there is going to be an improvement in the team as to what is currently in place because Allan Saint-Maximin is indeed a striker with hidden great potential in the play field which I believe that's what mourinho might have seen to be so much interested in bringing him to the club and he definitely suit Mourinho's kind of tactics because of his aggressiveness in the goal post, has played 30 matches scored 6 goals and 9 assists since he joined Al Ahli.

The fixtures for the 24/25 Super League season have been announced. Starting on August 9, the Super League will end on June 1, 2025. This season 19 teams will play in the league. There have been some important transfers in the Super League this summer and hopefully we will see a league with a high level of competition and football quality this season. Here are the derby weeks we are curious about in the fixture;

Week 5: Trabzonspor v Beşiktaş
Week 6: Fenerbahçe v Galatasaray
Week 10: Galatasaray v Beşiktaş
Week 11: Trabzonspor v Fenerbahçe
Week 15: Beşiktaş v Fenerbahçe
Week 16: Galatasaray v Trabzonspor

talking about striker and mourinho, fenerbahce reached an agreement with Al Ahli for Al Ahli player Allan Saint-Maximin to be loaned to fenerbahce, he played 30 games in the Saudi league and only managed to score 4 goals, I don't know why mourinho is interested in himself even though he has such low performance, today fenerbahce played another friendly game and lost, it was a game in which fenerbahce failed to score a goal and conceded 1 goal, the opponent was not weak and from what i could see the Mourinho once again played with another formation, I think he is testing which formation suits Fenerbahce and what characteristics of players he needs for the ideal formation he wants to create. here is the news about Allan Saint-Maximin's loan


source: https://x.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1811003000002863405

In 2 weeks Fenerbahce will have an important game, it will be a qualifying game for the European Champions League and it will be against Lugano who finished in second place in the Swiss league. I think it will be the first big test for Mourinho, losing this qualification will start the season badly for Mourinho. I hope Fenerbahce makes good signings

I absolutely have the same idea with you about Cenk Tosun. I have heard that his name is called with Fenerbahçe as well. Cenk Tosun could be a quite good transfer to be a backup forward player for Fenerbahçe which have just lost Batshuayi. It has been on Fenerbahçe's agenda that Dzeko could leave Fenerbahçe. When we think about this age I think it would be good to see him leaving. Because we know Mourinho wants a more dynamic main forward player.

Cenk Tosun, whose contract with Beşiktaş has expired, has signaled that he will consider offers from other teams, but a deal similar to the contract renewed by Salih Uçan could also be agreed. At the moment, Beşiktaş has no intention of letting him go because there are not many options both as a Turkish and as a center forward. Although Cenk is not a direct starter, he is a quality player who can find a place in the rotation. I think it's necessary to agree on a suitable salary and keep him in the team.

Armand Lauriente is on the agenda for the left wing. With 5 goals and 4 assists in 37 games for Sassuolo, I think he is unnecessary for Beşiktaş. The player who will play on the left wing of Beşiktaş should contribute at least 10 goals and as many assists. Otherwise it's impossible to be champion. Look at the years when we were champions, players like Larin, Cenk Tosun and Babel always contributed to the score from the left wing.

Fenerbahçe clearly wants Mourinho to win the Super League Cup, which has not been won for a long time. Mourinho is a very experienced name, I see it as highly likely that he can achieve this. Any success can be achieved in Europe, of course, they had a very good squad last season.

Fenerbahçe will be renewed with a few reinforcements and a good Mourinho. Clubs such as Galatasaray and Beşiktaş will also show themselves in this race by spending well. Let's see, as some pieces move at the beginning of the season, it will become clear where the cup will go during the season.

I think they will focus on the European Cups. Of course they will also want to win the Turkish League. But this season they will build a team from scratch. Mourinho will need time to instill his tactics into this team. The new signings will have adaptation problems. They will face many problems. On the other hand, Galatasaray will start the season with a settled squad. The league race will be more difficult for Fenerbahçe than last season. That's why I think they will prioritize the European Cups. Also, Mourinho's tactics are more suitable for the cup format. With tight defense they can beat any team in the cup. But they can't win the league with tight defense.

If Fenerbahçe cant become champions next season, I think a big crisis awaits them. The same things happen every year, Fenerbahçe is full of hope throughout the season and we think they will be champions. Then they make a mistake and lose the championship.
Fenerbahçe fans are now very disturbed by this situation. It's really frustrating that such a good team can't become champions.
Winning the Turkish Super League may be much more valuable to them than European success

Fenerbahçe is a good club but if they should focus on the champions League they will not go far next season, I'm not saying that putting more efforts on the champions league is bad but considering the fact that there are more suitable clubs on the race to win the champions League they would be wasting there efforts because one of the things that even affected Arsenal on there premier League this season was also trying to focus on two different leagues at a time, so I wouldn't advise Fenerbahçe to follow that step next season, however another club I believe will even be more interesting than Beşiktaş is Trabzonspor because they made a great impact this season by qualifying as the third position of the league and I believe that they would be coming fully prepared next season, so considering there previous performance don't you think they have more to offer than Beşiktaş?.

In last few years, we are having enough improvement in Fenerbahçe quality even they fail to bring any trophy, but things are looking pretty decent for them with now after having José Mourinho look like they are heading for the new era in this club and Turkish League as well because now first time we are having some good buying which were not happened in past and few clubs are also having transfers which are going to bring some close matches at the top for the title race.

Galatasaray, Fenerbahçe and Besiktas are already having good players and quality which is helping them for having top spots but now as things are taking changes we will have some investment from the other clubs as well for having good players which can make some good improvement in league and competitiveness which is also improvement for having more intention from the fans which want some good matches and fierce atmosphere.

If Fenerbahçe focus on the Champions League or other European tournaments more than the Super League, it would be meaningless. They are already being criticized by not being able to win a Super League title for 10 years. Mourinho will be quite under pressure for winning it finally next season. So the league would be their priority. 

Next season could be even more interesting. Because Beşiktaş are also trying to join Fenerbahçe - Galatasaray duo in the title race. It would be really lovely if we see these 3 teams clashing for the trophy until the end.

I agree with you and I want to add that this is a great chance for Morinho too, he hasn't managed to win a league for many years, in Roma he couldn't win Serie A, at Manchester United he couldn't win the Premier League, which in a way he did with his reputation dropping and the big teams starting to not see him as a great option for them to sign, as in the Turkish league Fenerbahce has been a team that finishes in second place, they can compete against Galatasaray for the title, so Mourinho needs to win the title to regain the attention of the big teams.

today fenerbahce drew with Admira in a friendly game, in that game mourinho used another formation 4 - 2 - 3 -1 which was a formation that didn't allow fenerbahce to score many goals, in defense they are also not very strong yet, because they conceded 1 goal again, in the friendly game mourinho had used the 4 - 3 - 3 formation and the team managed to score 2 goals, I think that mourinho will need to show that he can create a team that can score a lot of goals and win the league. because one of the reasons he is criticized is his style of play, in Roma he made the team focus on defense and not on attack, the team played badly, Mourinho left and a new coach came in who made the Roma played better. So this is also a chance for Mourinho

I don't think Fenerbahçe are thinking about the European Cups, they will focus on winning the Turkish Super League because it's been a long time. Despite spending so much money, playing with so many big stars, collecting so many points, they are not champions. This year they brought Mourinho to put a stop to it. They don't care much about the European cups. Anyway, if Fenerbahçe fails to become champion in the local league this season, Ali Koç won't be able to sit in that seat for much longer. This season is their last chance.

I think Mourinho will care more about the UEFA Conference League than the Turkish League and will get more successful results in the UEFA Conference League, because the UEFA Conference League has a vision. And there is Galatasaray in the Turkish League. European Cups can be the first target for Mourinho and Fenerbahce. They will start the season with the Champions League qualifiers. But during the season I think they will have an adventure leading to the UEFA Conference League, because the UEFA Conference League is an easier target for them than the UEFA Champions League or the UEFA Europa League.

I think they have been slow in terms of transfers. After the name of Mourinho, I expected important stars to join the team one after the other.

In fact, if the management of each team and also adequate financial support, such as the presence of many investors who come in and can really make the League develop, then they can become one of several popular Leagues that are quite interested in many people.
But so far, unfortunately, Turkish football has experienced problems several times and there have also been quite lot of problems that have occurred and they have also received bad views from football fans, several quite serious cases have been committed by several team here before.
But now there have been changes and slowly the Turkish Super League also seems to be making lot of improvements even though it can't really compete like some of the other big European leagues.

But the most interesting thing is Fenerbahce, several years ago they received sanctions and were also banned from playing in the UCL because of mistake from their president, only now everything has returned to normal and can run smoothly to take part in important European competitions.
I believe that Fenerbahce has lot of potential, although it cannot be denied that they are not yet comparable to some of the big and strong team that always dominate the UCL.
Team from the Turkish Super League must be able to try and prove to write their name in the history of European football, at least they can compete well and be able to survive longer, this is form of their strength which is starting to develop.