Football Season Guide

Last season, Caykur Rize offered one of the most important examples of how fundamental the winter transfer could be. In January, they were standing in the bottom place, but they turned into a much better team following new arrivals and finished the season in the 10th place. Most of those players were on loan. So they left the team in the summer. Besides them, they sold their best attacker Muriqi to Fenerbahce. So it was a must to do well in the summer transfer market. First of all, they obtained 4 newcomers from Fenerbahce in the transfer of Muriqi. In particular, Tarik Cetin could be useful as he has done a great job in the promotion of Fatih Karagumruk to the 1st League. Anyway, they lost great power in the midfield. Chahechouhe, Boldrin, Musa Cagiran, Umar and Petrucci have left the team. Instead of them, Vetrih and Diomande were signed in as defensive midfielders. Both players did not act in their teams as regulars because of several reasons. That is why they may remain soft in the midfield defensively. Speaking about defence, Moroziuk, who did well at right back during the last season, is going to re-sign but Awaziem and Saadane are not members of the team any more. Instead of them, Chatziisaias was added. He has spent the last season in Atromitos as a loanee. It will be his 1st experience outside Greece. At the moment, the backline do not look trustable to the fans. It is the same story for the offence line. Along with Samu and Nakoulma, there are only El Kabir and De Pauw as the newcomers. Both players did not do well in Allsvenskan and Jupiler Pro League respectively. Now, coach Ismail Kartal’s squad do not look strong comparing to the last season’s 2nd part. It could cost them bad result on the early fixtures unless they manage to add some important players before the end of the summer transfer market.