The Turkish club Besiktas is currently in sixth place in the Super League standings, with as many as 20 points less than the leading Galatasaray and 12 less than the second-placed Fenerbahce after 17 rounds played.
It is far from the ambitions of the club that is He was the champion of Turkey 16 timesthe latest in 2021.
According to information from Turkey, the first to be hit in the winter transfer window will be the coach Serdar Topraktepe. He recently reported to the club management that the lack of team spirit in the team led to the current situation. He stated that the team could not prepare sufficiently well, especially in the camp, and that there were problems among the players. After that, bad results further weakened the connection between the players, writes Index.
The same sources state that the new president Serdal Adalı already started holding meetings with potential Topraktepe successors. Sergen Yalcınthe first choice for the new coach of Besiktas, rejected the offer of the club’s owner, so the new management is urgently looking for a solution.
After negotiations with Yalcın broke down due to disagreements over key terms, Adalı turned to the rest of the list. Along with two other Turkish coaches, İbrahim Üzülmez and Ertuğrul Sağlam, they are on it Niko Kovač, former coach of Bayern and the Croatian national team, Razvan Lucescuwho has extensive experience in working with Turkish clubs, and Slaven Bilićwho already managed Besiktas from 2013 to 2015.
Kovač’s last job was in Germany’s Wolfsburg, where he was fired in mid-March last year due to a series of bad results. Bilić, on the other hand, had his last engagement with Saudi Al Fateh, with whom he ended his cooperation in the summer. The club is looking for a quick turnaround in the season and return to the fight for European competitionsand one of the Croatian strategists could help them in this. A decision will be made soon.
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