Football Season Guide

Although they have collected only 3 points in the last 7 fixtures, they could manage to survive at top level. Its biggest reason was their successful home performance on early match days. Ahead of the new season, they appointed coach Ismet Tasdemir who in charge of last season’s 1st league champion Kocaelispor. He has worked in several teams but it will his 2nd experience at top level. Last season, he was fired from Bodrum FK after they have collected only 10 points in 10 fixtures. This summer, they have seen many departures but they have failed to fill their roles yet. Okereke, Viana, Halil, Kodro and Husic have left the team after their loan periods came to an end. Besides them, the board did not come to an agreement with Stephen, Tasdemir, Artan and Berke yet. They are not expected to be the part of the team in the new season. They added Rodrigues to the left back which is a good move but there is no back-up in the team for him. Abena was also signed in from Spartak Moscow but he was far from the 1st team football in the last season. His performance will be a question mark. It seems like new coach will trust on Guler & Arda at center back. It would be better to bring a back-up to the right back as there is only M’Bakata there. Bacuna came in from Al-Wehda that have completed the Saudi Pro League in the bottom three. In offence zone, there is only Boateng as original attacker. Except him, Sorescu & Lungoyi stayed in the team but they immedialtely need some new offensive blood. It is obvious that the performance of 35-year-old Maxim & Kozlowski will be decisive this season too because there is no other power in the team.