Besiktas to host HJK Helsinki

Besiktas will host Finland's HJK Helsinki in the first leg of the playoff round of the UEFA Europa League in Istanbul on Tuesday.


The match will kick-off at 7:00 p.m. at Inonu Stadium in Istanbul. Romania's Odiviu Alin Hategan will referee the match.


HJK lost at home in the league to title rivals Honka on Saturday,

On the other hand Besiktas won their first league match in away......


Besiktas will be without Czech defender Tomas Sivok, who is out for two months after having knee surgery on Friday.

Sunday Recap....Fenerbahce win big,Trabzonspor also win

On Sunday, in the three matches that played, there were 9 goals scored ...

4 of them came by Fenerbhace......


Two of the Turkish Spor Toto Super League teams that will play in the Europian compition this coming week, Fenerbahce and Trabzonspor won their match, in the first weekend.


Fenerbahce after losing to Young Boy's at home, was under a lot of pressure before the PAOK match, this coming Thursday.

They faced Antalyaspor at home with no spectators, in the stands.........

And they beat Antalyaspor with 4 goals...

Defender Lugano and Semih Senturk started the match all though they were not in good term with the team!

Fenerbahce coach Aykut Kocaman, knew, he was under the microscope, for this match ...

Semih Senturk(2) , Gokhan Gonul and Alex de Souza, scored for Fenerbahce team.


After the match, Fenerbhace coach said, they are focused to PAOK match..

He said, they are ready to take on PAOK of Greece, this Thursday in Greece..

Fenerbahce keeper Volkan Demirel, might not play against PAOK of Greece, due to injuries, he received in this match!


The team who will face Liverpool in the European competition , Trabzonspor, won their away match, in Ankara...

Trabzonspor beat Ankaragucu with two goals...

Colombian Teofilo Gutierrez and Umut Bulut scored for Trabzonspor in Ankara...

Also on Sunday, Leagues new team Karabukspor beat Manisaspor at home with the score of 2-1

Emmanuel Emenike and Anthony Seric scored for Karabuk while Manisaspor goal came by Kahe, in the last minutes of the match.

The Turkish SPOR TOTO Super League will resume on Monday with two mathes...

The defending Champs Bursaspor will be at home against Konyaspor and BuyukSehir will host Kayserispor in Istanbul at 20:00 CET time...

For now, Fenerbahce stands on top of the Turkish SPOR TOTO Super League with better goal average....

Mamadou Niang Joins Fenerbahce...

Finally, Fenerbhace's wishes came to end and they got Mamadou Niang from Olympique de Marseille .

The real question is, is Turkish Striker Semih Senturk, will leave the team, now?

Earlier in the week , Semih Senturk said, He will leave the team if Fenerbahce transfers Niang!

Marseille team announced, on their official website, the departure of Senegalese striker Mamadou Niang to Fenerbahce.


The 30-year-old Niang has committed his future to Fenerbahce after an estimated transfer fee of €8m was agreed by both clubs.

Niang scored 100 goals in five season with Marseille team in the Franch League...

According to reports ,Niang agreed on a 4-year deal, earning €480,000 per month and is said to have been awarded a €1m signing on fee.

Saturday recap.....Besiktas win,Galatasaray lose!

Turkey's top league, Spor Toto Super league, started with four matches on Saturday and in those four matches there were only four goals scored.

In the early match Galatasaray started the match against Sivasspor good but finished bad!

On the other hand Besiktas the star studded black and white eagles, won in the away match with only one goal.


Besiktas's goal came in the beginning of the second half of the match by Bobo..
Former Real Madrid player Guti gave a beautiful pass to Bobo, as he got his first assist in the Turkish League.

He also received his first yellow card, in the match too........

Bucaspor were a man down for the last 14 minutes following a second yellow card for Ediz Bahtiyaroglu.

As I said , Galatasaray had a good start against Sivasspor in Sivas as Mustafa Sarp put Galatasaray ahead in the seventh minute, but Bruno Mbanangoye tied the match shortly before the break and Cihan Yilmaz scored the second and winning goal for Sivasspor.

Alos on Saturday, Eskisehirspor and Genclerbirligi played for nil nil draw and Gaziantepspor and Kasimpasa were also scorels in Gaziantep...

On Sunday there are three matches.... Fenerbahve will face Antalyaspor at home...

A little transfer note..... Fenerbahce signed Niang ...

Also on Sunday, Ankaragucu will face Trabzonspor and Karabukspor will be home against Manisaspor.

There will be two matches on Monday night too...

Defending Champions Bursaspor will be at home against Konyaspor and Buyuksehir will face Kayserispor in Istanbul.

LET THE GAMES BEGIN!...Turkey's Top League takes a start this weekend.

Well, Turkish Football or Turkish soccer fans get ready for the marathon in the Turkish "SPOR TOTO" Super League new season which will take off on this coming Saturday..

Istanbul's big three will have a strong compition this year again from Anatolian teams in the league...

Last season's defending champions Bursaspor and Trabzonspor, looks like will be contenders for the top spot, this year.

Also, Gazinatepsor , Eskisehirspor and Kayserispor will make a strong standing in the league along with other teams in the league....

Besiktas is the king of the transfer season in Turkey....

Besiktas transfered Star players like Guti (from Real Madrid),Portuguese Quaresma (from Inter) and the world known coach Germain Schuster.

Also, Fenerbhace signed Miroslav Stoch (Chelsea), and Ankaragucu signed Stanislav Sestak (Bochum ) and Robert Vittek (Lille ).

Kayserispor also signed Jonathan Santana from Paraguay...

The 53th season of Turkey's top league takes a start this weekend on Saturday..

Here is the transfer list for each team....

Ankaragucu
Midfielder Adem Kocak from Ankaraspor; Defender Muhammet Hanifi from Ankaraspor; Midfielder Ozgur Cek from Ankaraspor; Gabon forward Roguy Meye from Ankaraspor; Forward Teoman Safa Erkan from Ankaraspor; Liberian midfielder Theo Lewis Weeks from Ankaraspor; Slovakian goalkeeper Stefan Senecky from Ankaraspor; Defender Ediz Bahtiyaroglu on loan from Ankaraspor; Defender Aydin Toscali from Kayserispor; Defender Guven Varol from Manisaspor; Forward Turgut Sahin from Samsunspor; Polish defender Michal Zewlakow on a free transfer from Olympiakos; Slovakian forward Robert
Vittek (permanent signing) from Lille for a fee of €2.1m.

Antalyaspor
Croatian defender Ivan Radeljic from Genclerbirligi; Forward Kenan Ozer on a free transfer from Besiktas; Defender Deniz Baris on a free transfer from Fenerbahce.
Belediyespor
Swedish midfielder Samuel Holmen from Brondby.

Besiktas
Spanish midfielder Guti on a free transfer from Real Madrid; Australian defender Ersan Gulum on loan from Adanaspor; Goalkeeper Cenk Gonen from Denizlispor for a fee of €1m; German midfielder Roberto Hilbert on a free transfer from Stuttgart; Portuguese midfielder Ricardo Quaresma from Inter for a fee of €7.3m.

Bucaspor
Defender Koray Colgecen from Ankaragucu; Senegalese forward Moustapha Dabo from Al-Sailiya; Midfielder Onur Tuncer from Boluspor; Angolan forward Manucho on loan from Valladolid; Midfielder Oguz Basaran from Darica; Midfielder Aydin Karabulut on loan from Ankaraspor; Forward Emre Aktas from Adanaspor.

Bursaspor
Argentinean forward Leonel Jorge Nunez from Independiente; Serbian defender Milan Stepanov from Porto; Argentinean forward Damian Steiner from Racing Avellaneda; Argentinean midfielder Federico Insua from America.

Eskisehirspor
Brazilian defender Diego Angelo on loan from Genoa; Brazilian defender Bruno Bertucci from Corinthians; Chilean midfielder Rodrigo Tello from Besiktas; Midfielder Burhan Eser from Genclerbirligi; Forward Emre Aygun from Ankaragucu; Portuguese midfielder Pele from Porto for a fee of €0.4m; Forward Batuhan Karadeniz from Besiktas for a fee of €2.1m.

Fenerbahce
French forward Issiar Dia from Nancy-Lorraine for a fee of €6.5m; Midfielder Caner Erkin from CSKA Moscow for a fee of €2m; Defender Ilhan Eker from Genclerbirligi; Slovakian midfielder Miroslav Stoch from Chelsea for a fee of €5.5m.

Galatasaray
Colombian forward Juan Pablo Pino from Monaco for a fee of €3m; Albanian midfielder Lorik Cana from Sunderland for a fee of €6m; Defender Caglar Birinci from Denizlispor for a fee of €1.5m; Defender Ali Turan from Kayserispor; Forward Mehmet Batdal from Bucaspor; Midfielder Serdar Ozkan from Besiktas.

Gaziantepspor
Defender Suleyman Ozdamar from Altay; Forward Mehmet Yilmaz from Eskisehirspor.

Genclerbirligi
Scottish midfielder Michael Stewart on a free transfer from Hearts; English forward Billy Mehmet on a free transfer from St. Mirren; Bosnia-Herzegovnian forward Ermin Zec from Sibenik for a fee of €2m; German forward Mehmet Akgun from Willem II Tilburg.

Karabukspor
Forward Ilhan Parlak on loan from Ankaraspor.

Kasimpasaspor
Spanish defender Fernando Varela from Mallorca.

Kayserispor
Argentinean midfielder Jonathan Santana from Wolfsburg for a fee of €0.6m.

Konyaspor
Slovakian forward Ivan Lietava from Zilina; Slovakian midfielder Peter Grajciar from Slavia Prague; Goalkeeper Ercument Kafkasyali from Genclerbirligi; Forward Aykut Ozturk from Wehen Wiesbaden.

Manisaspor
Midfielder Ahmet Ilhan Ozek from Bozuyukspor; Midfielder Omer Aysan Baris from Trabzonspor.

Sivaspor
Bosnia-Herzegovnian goalkeeper Sead Ramovic from Tromso.

Trabzonspor
Brazilian forward Jaja from Metalist Kharkiv for a fee of €4.2m; Midfielder Baris Atas from Diyarbakirspor; Polish defender Arkadiusz Glowacki from Wisla Krakow for a fee of €1m; Goalkeeper Bora Sevim from Belediyespor.

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The most expensive transfers

date
Jun '10 Ricardo Quaresma Besiktas Inter 7.3
Jul '10 Issiar Dia Fenerbahce Nancy-Lorraine 6.5
Jul '10 Lorik Cana Galatasaray Sunderland 6
Jun '10 Miroslav Stoch Fenerbahce Chelsea 5.5
Aug '10 Jaja Trabzonspor Metalist Kharkiv 4.2



Who will win the title?

Well, Istanbul giants will have a though ride this year too..

After Bursaspor winning the Championship last season , Trabzonspor looks like a better team in the league this year...

But, with flash transfers, Besktas is the heavy contender in the league this season!

Frank Rijkaard's Galatasaray and Aykut Kocaman's Fenerbahce has not establish a good team just yet!

They are still in process of getting players while the other already done that!


Here is the Super League schedule for week one....

SATURDAY 14 AUGUST 2010

Gaziantepspor v Kasimpasa

Sivasspor v GALATASARAY


Eskisehirspor v Genclerbirligi

Bucaspor v Besiktas

SUNDAY 15 AUGUST 2010

Fenerbahce v Medical Park Antalyaspor

Ankaragucu v Trabzonspor

KDC Karabukspor v Manisaspor

MONDAY 16 AUGUST 2010

B.Ş. Belediyespor v Kayserispor

Bursaspor v Konyaspor

Turkey beats Romania 2-0 with Guus Hiddink!

Guus Hiddink made a winning debut as Turkey coach on Wednesday, leading his team to a 2-0 victory over Romania in an international friendly.
Emre Belozoglu scored from a penalty kick in the 82nd minute, and Arda Turan extended the lead four minutes later.

"We have to improve in certain aspects of the game, but the second goal was a beauty," Hiddink told Kanalturk television.

A NEW NAME SPONSOR FOR TURKISH SUPER LEAGUE!

Well, we have to get use to this name from now on....

"SPOR TOTO TURKISH SUPER LEAGUE!"


It is the state-run(Turkish Government) sports betting company....

Very nice......

Now, we have a betting company runs by the Government is going to sponsor the Turkey's top league!


People will bet more now since the name of the Turkish Super League is sponsored by Betting company called "SPOR -TOTO"


The betting company commercials were all over the radios and TV's and news papers now we will say their name every time when we talk about Turkish Super league...

But, I guess money talks.................



How absurd is that?


Spor Toto has been awarded naming rights for the Turkey’s top football leagues starting from the 2010-2011 season.

The deal will cost Spor Toto $125 million...

They will will acquire the naming rights for the Super League, League Two and League Three for the next five years.


Turkcell had been the main sponsor of the Super League for five years,

On the other hand Turkish Super League will start this weekend ,,,

Here is the Super League schedule for week one....

SATURDAY 14 AUGUST 2010

Gaziantepspor v Kasimpasa

Sivasspor v GALATASARAY


Eskisehirspor v Genclerbirligi

Bucaspor v Besiktas

SUNDAY 15 AUGUST 2010

Fenerbahce v Medical Park Antalyaspor

Ankaragucu v Trabzonspor

KDC Karabukspor v Manisaspor

MONDAY 16 AUGUST 2010

B.Ş. Belediyespor v Kayserispor

Bursaspor v Konyaspor