Stunbel, you are a very decent and reasonable fan we all know that, but do you really believe that Robinho or Adebayor will sign for beşiktaş? Those 2 men are creations of Turkish media. I just laugh. Bellamy would be more realistic than those 2 guys.
I am a galatasaray fan locally (which sucks big time this year, as Galatasaray will have zero titles), I follow our league but those 2 players will not arrive in neither Beşiktaş, Fenerbahce or Galatasaray. Sad, but true mate.
Besides, I did NOT watch Beşiktaş's first game against Buca, but I have a feeling that your team has an UNBALANCED team, too offensive tactically and as names. I expect some groupings inside the team ala Fenerbahce's brazilians.
Last, Guti and Quaresma were bought ONLY to please the fans. They may work tactically for the offense in the future maybe, but the aim was to please people.
Edit: Oops: Wrong thread mods. Supposed to post in Turkish Super League
(You can move this post to Turkish Super League thread aswell with The777's post.)
Hi 777, i agree with most of your post. But there are some things you are missing imho.
Firstly, about Quaresma and Guti transfers. Beşiktaş (ÇARŞI) wanted Quaresma for months long, and board might have signed him only to please the fans, that might be true. Nevertheless Quaresma showed that he was the perfect signing for us. We definitely needed a good winger, a good attacking player who can do well on 1on1s and improve our attacking force drastically. Quaresma is a perfect signing for our needs, so wheter the board transfered him just to please the fans or not, they did well imo.
And you know pretty much how Delgado and Tabata performs as our "playmakers". For years long, we struggled as hell to get the ball into the opposite side and use the ball cleverly. We simply sucked on creating attacks. So imo a playmaker transfer was a good idea aswell and Guti who costed nothing but his wages is a great signing too, despite his age (33). However, we should already get rid of 1 of Tabata or Delgado..
So i am after both those signings. Also Ersan (DC) and Cenk (GK) were clever moves by us aswell, and would be perfect if we could sign a decent Turkish Right Back aswell. I can't find any reason that makes sense about Hilbert transfer though.. And as you know, last year we were the team that conceded least goals in league, though our goal scored statistics were beyond pathetic which was the only reason for our failure imo. So keeping the defensive players here and improving offence sounds very reasonable to me.
Now, about team unbalance between players and groupings inside.. This is what fears me most, honestly.. I watched the team closely since Quaresma joined and without exception everyone seems ok with them, our players looks like they tolerate Quaresma's selfishness. You might remember Serhat Akın from Fenerbahçe, he is a friend of mine and he told me alot about groupings inside Fenerbahçe at Ortega times.. That is such thing that can drive a team to a complete failure. But i trust Schuster about handling this kind of situations, i'm pretty optimistic about his player handling skills. Let's see what future will bring and keep our fingers crossed..
And lastly, Robinho and Adebayor transfers. Those 2 men are definitely not the creations of Turkish Media. Beşiktaş transfer Board (Yıldırım Demirören, Serdal Adalı, Cengiz Zülfikaroğlu) were in UK 2 days ago and they officialy stated that they started pre-negotiations with Man City about Robinho and Adebayor. So whether they come or not, those are the players we are officially interested in. Now, to be realistic, i wouldn't even consider joining Beşiktaş or any other Turkish team if i were in Robinho's or Adebayor's place, thats for sure.. However, the expectations are sky-high at the moment and i'm pretty sure Beşiktaş will do anything to convince one of them. And as realistic targets, Altidore or Carew sounds good enough to me. And again, no matter they join us or not we are officially interested with them.
10 years of FIFI felt bad for Inter though, i really liked him. Balotelli even caused me to dislike Totti for a moment first time in my life.
