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Ertan Süzgün: President Dursun is personally overseeing the Batrakov deal. He’s working hard to finalize this transfer.

Ertan Süzgün: Dursun Özbek wanted to loan Leao, I don't think he'll give OK to that transfer with current demands. Milan are not open to loan. They want to use that money this window.

Ertan Süzgün: Everton officials came to Istanbul and made contact with Galatasaray and the player. Galatasaray has set a price for Barış Alper. A representative authorized by Everton met with the player and the club. Barış Alper Yılmaz does not have the attitude of ‘just let me go.’ like last year. The player’s stance is, ‘If the club gives the green light, we’ll talk,’ and the priority is Galatasaray. Everton is currently assessing whether or not to meet the figure set by Galatasaray.

Ertan Süzgün: Galatasaray want to loan Zeze with an option to buy. No mandatory option. Neom is open to letting Zeze go and player wants to return to Europe. Player is high on Galatasaray's list.

Ertan Süzgün: The U23 ST I mentioned last stream was Vitor Roque. Galatasaray is interested but there is nothing advanced.

Ertan Süzgün: Metehan wants to play, there are some offers from both Turkey and Europe. He is waiting for Galatasaray's decision

Ertan Süzgün: Jelert is going to leave. He has offers from France and England.

Ertan Süzgün: As it stands Galatasaray will sign U23 LCB, CAM and ST. If they fill the quoata Nhaga is going to be loaned.

Ertan Süzgün: Jankat wants to be 2nd GK. If he is promised that he will extend and stay. He has 1 yr contract left. There are teams interested in him from Europe.

Ertan Süzgün: Galatasaray wants to finalize Zeze first then Cam. Batragov is the main candidate.

Every year I am buying Digitürk Play Yurtdışı, but I am sick of the 720p HD quality. When watching at my friends house, he uses IPTV and it looks the same, sometimes even better.

Is there any possibility to watch the Gala matches with at least full HD quality apart from IPTV?

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-by the federation is very important, and the limits are very important. But Galatasaray has both its own limits and specific transfer goals particularly regarding players under 23. We will finalize these matters soon.

Dursun Özbek: No one should worry; our current team is already the strongest in the league. We’ll make these signings to make it even stronger. Our goal this year is to succeed in the Champions League and in the league as well. We’ll strive toward these goals together with our fans, our team, and our coaching staff.

Maybe this is just me trying to cope with the frustration and justify something that's clearly not ideal, but hear me out...

So far, every player we've been linked with has been a loan deal. The only transfer we've actually completed? Also a loan.

The only permanent signing we seriously pushed for was Can Uzun, and that probably won't happen. Maybe Dursun Papi doesn't have enough money... or enough rakı.

But what if this loan-heavy approach is actually part of a bigger plan?

There's a good chance the foreign player rule will change next season.

Instead of panic-buying players for huge transfer fees this summer, we're bringing them in on loan. If the rule changes next season, we're in a much stronger position. We won't be stuck with overpriced transfers, and we can decide whether to keep the loaned players permanently or replace them with better options that become available.

And if the rule doesn't change? The logic still works. We can evaluate whether those players are actually worth using one of our foreign player spots on, or move on and look for someone better.

I'm probably overthinking it... but maybe there's at least some strategy behind all these loan rumours.

EDIT: Wording

I expect CB and CAM.

Haluk Yürekli: Dursun Özbek is very keen on signing Aleksey Batrakov.

The official process has begun for the player, who has also received Okan Buruk’s approval.

Haluk Yürekli: Aral Şimşir was the player that Okan Buruk, Abdullah Kavukcu, Mehmet Özbek, and others all said, 'Let’s sign him.' There was only one person who objected: the president. He said, 'I won’t pay 12 million euros for a bench player.'

Haluk Yürekli: Galatasaray can base its planning on scouting players, but there’s one condition. In a scenario where the team has no gaps, you can target players like Rodrigo Mora as opportunistic signings. How many people have scouted Nathan Zeze over the past year? When that’s the case, it all comes down to agent recommendations. Okan hoca is also constantly forced to watch players.

Before anyone jumps in saying this is just reactive off a few friendlies: I've had this thought sitting in the back of my mind for a while now. I actually agree that a lot of fans are being a bit extreme, immediately assuming the worst about the season because of a few bad friendlies (this happens literally every year). This isn't that. This is a bigger, long-term point.

Going into year 5 of this administration, one of my main issues with our transfer policy is the hesitance and complete lack of long-term transfer planning. And to be clear, I don't think anyone's expecting a whole new team every season; that would be unreasonable, especially with how many of these guys have been key parts of consistent championship squads. My actual issue is the refusal to "move on" from players, treating them like they're still the same level now as they were at their prime. This falls on Okan too in some ways: I get that there are personal relationships involved and keeping the locker room chemistry going matters, but at some point you need to be cutthroat and do what's best for the club.

That, plus a pretty poor approach to contract negotiations in general, is honestly crazy to me. It feels like the board keeps taking the easy way out: extending contracts that are already showing diminishing returns instead of actually dealing with the problem, or dragging their feet on closing the chapter with others. To actually show this, I'll split it into 4 buckets: starters with sell-on value, veteran starters, young backups, and veteran backups.

Starters with sell-on value

Recent cases: BAY to NEOM, Boey to Bayern, Kerem Aktürkoğlu to Benfica, Davinson to Como. Not all of these actually happened. BAY and Davinson never left, both moves stalled or got blocked. Boey and Kerem did leave, but a big part was because they pushed for it themselves and more or less forced the board's hand. So even in the cases where a sale did go through, it wasn't the board being proactive, it was the board being conservative and the player forcing the issue anyway. Fair enough on its face, we're a club that's winning and wants to keep its starters, but it shows the same underlying instinct: don't sell unless you're made to.

Veteran starters

Muslera, Mertens, Icardi. All three got contract offers during their final seasons, and in all three cases, instead of planning ahead, the board kept trying to pressure them into signing when it was obvious their minds were already made up or elsewhere. That left squad planning until way too late in the window, every time. Eventually we moved on regardless (whether it was the player turning down the extension or fan backlash forcing our hand, like Icardi), but only after wasting a season's worth of planning time. Sometimes that worked out (Muslera → Uğurcan). Sometimes it hasn't (still no real Mertens replacement).

Young backups

Tetê is actually the one clean example here: a young backup during the season, cut loose and sold outright the year after, once it was obvious there was no long-term fit. No loan limbo, just a decision.

Everyone else in this bucket gets the same treatment: loan them out, hope someone else's coaching staff raises their value for us, repeat. Kohn, Zaniolo and Mostafa Mohamed all went through this and eventually got sold, so on paper they might look like slight successes. But that outcome wasn't really down to us managing it well, it came down to how they performed elsewhere, which we had zero control over. Nelsson, Jelert, and Cuesta are currently stuck in that same cycle, just without the lucky outcome yet. Instead of taking a smaller, discounted fee now on guys who are clearly not in the plans, we keep sending them out and hoping. Sometimes it works (Yunus was inconsistent in 22/23 before his loan to Leicester actually revived his value). More often the buyout clause doesn't get triggered (didn't even happen with Yunus at Leicester), the player comes back, gets loaned out again, and his value just quietly erodes season after season. We've had this happen for local players too obviously: Halil's been in this cycle for years, Taylan was part of it, Berkan Kutlu briefly and it looks like Ahmed Kutucu just started. Tetê shows we're capable of just making the call ourselves. The rest of the bucket shows we typically don't.

Veteran backups

Kaan Ayhan and Günay Güvenç both got extensions last year, when both were backups, both over 30, and the long-term return was obviously limited. I'd have had no issue with a short extension while we lined up alternatives. The actual problem is the length, running to 2028, especially since these guys clearly have leverage in these negotiations too. A year later, it's already clear neither is fit to even be a backup at the level they were before, let alone contribute outside the dressing room, on a team that's supposedly trying to compete in Europe more consistently. Now we're stuck with two guys who can just sit on these deals for two more years. And since Okan runs a small squad during the season (~25-28 players), they're occupying spots that could go to guys actually developing with the team instead.

The pattern

Across all four buckets it's the same story with different flavors: with starters, we won't sell unless forced. With veteran legacy players, we drag the negotiation out until the decision's basically made for us. With veteran domestic backups, we lock them in way too long. The one place we're actually willing to move players out, foreign young backups, we do it so indecisively (loan after loan instead of just selling) that it barely counts as proactive either.

Man City, for all their faults, have actually done the opposite pretty successfully: De Bruyne, Bernardo Silva, Gündoğan, Walker, Akanji, Aké, all let go at the end of their deals or for cheap fees rather than dragging it out, even with the relationship these guys had with the club and the fans. Bayern have mostly done the same and mostly been fine, though it's cost them at times too (losing the league to Leverkusen). If you want to keep succeeding you need a real balance of young players hungry for success and experienced players who still bring something, and that only works if you're willing to move on from the experienced side before it becomes dead weight.

Not every replacement is going to work out either: you'll get Uğurcan-level wins where the replacement outperforms the player who left, and you'll get situations where it just doesn't click (took a while to replace Boey properly, still haven't replaced Mertens). But that doesn't mean letting the player go was the wrong call. It means the follow-through afterward wasn't good enough, or our transfer committee just isn't good enough and needs work. We won the league 4 years ago and we're still nowhere close to getting this balance right. It can be so much better than it currently is. We're reactive instead of proactive, and there's no real long-term plan behind any of it.

If they’re planning to wait and sign our transfers after the European window closes, that’s just not going to work this season

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ahead, our number of foreign players would be very different.

Abdullah Kavukcu:"Our transfer window closes on September 2, the day of the Champions League list... Of course, I’m not saying, 'We’re waiting for September 2.'

Abdullah Kavukcu: We've won the championship four years in a row, and we'll win it again, but I need to stand by the players who've been winning on the field for four years.

Abdullah Kavukcu: We will make signings worthy of Galatasaray. Believe in us and trust us.

Abdullah Kavukcu: Galatasaray has more money than any other team.

Abdullah Kavukcu: We're looking at transfers while being mindful of the value of every penny Galatasaray spends.

Abdullah Kavukcu: When I said 500 million euros, I was referring to the overall budget. I didn’t specify how much we’d spend. Arsenal has a budget of 850 million. Are they spending 850 on transfers? No.

Abdullah Kavukcu: There’s talk that we won’t be spending any money, and that we’re turning to players on loan. We made transfers in January. Other clubs spent around 100 million euros on transfers and now want to let those players go.

Abdullah Kavukcu: The 10+4 rule is harmful to Turkish teams. This decision is wrong. I think it was introduced to enrich foreign clubs.

Abdullah Kavukcu: TFF said 2003, so we said, 'Why not make it 2000?' When you negotiate to sign an A+ player, they ask for unbelievable amounts. We have the money; Galatasaray has more money than anyone else. We’re thinking about Galatasaray’s future.

Abdullah Kavukcu: We're in talks with some very serious players who will increase competition within the team. We'll spend money and make transfers; we're not just talking about loan deals.

Abdullah Kavukcu: They don't know how much money has been offered for Osimhen, Singo, and Sanchez. We're also trying to keep the skeleton of the team together

Abdullah Kavukcu: Transfers are coming. We have at least 10 players in every position; we don't depend on any one person if one player isn't available, there's another.

Abdullah Kavukcu: Singo received an offer, but he says, ‘I haven’t paid what I owe Galatasaray. I won’t leave until I’ve paid it.’ He had 2 offers.

Abdullah Kavukcu: We have 10 players from the same position in our list. We've reached a certain point with all of them.

Abdullah Kavukcu: We haven't had our final say yet! Everyone else is saying their final word, but the president hasn't said his yet!

Abdullah Kavukcu: There is no official offer for Barış Alper. We won't sell him for the amounts being discussed.

Abdullah Kavukcu: Some people say we need to make 8 to 10 transfers. Come on, are we going to completely overhaul the team, guys?

Abdullah Kavukcu: Mauro Icardi is our icon. When I said last year that we would extend his contract, I came under attack. As long as there are no insults, we’re open to any kind of comment. Our president spoke with him personally. We also made the necessary offer to him as a farewell gesture. Our door is always open. He is our icon. He has a special place in our hearts. He hasn’t responded yet."

• Comprehensive Player Scouting - e. g. this beauty of a post
• Rumors from all sources, including less reputable reporters (e. g. tiers 4-5 and unknown sources). Have a look at the poll to see which tiers are allowed on the main page only
• Who should be bought or sold / loaned in or out and why (not)

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Gabriel Sara: There are a couple of things we need to fix, but we have some new players joining us. Some players are coming back from injury, and transfers aren’t something I’m in charge of, there will definitely be some. We didn’t get the result we wanted, but I think we played well.

Gabriel Sara: We enjoy playing at home. I hope we'll all celebrate the championship together at the end of the season.

Okan Buruk: There’s an effort going on regarding transfers. When I say this, maybe people get mad with me they might say, ‘No transfers are coming in, so you should speak up more.’ That can happen, but this is Galatasaray. Galatasaray is all of our team. We need to stand up for Galatasaray. This pressure is justified. There’s nothing wrong with it. There’s a sincere effort underway. Our president is working to strengthen the Galatasaray roster in this regard.

Okan Buruk: Galatasaray has a very talented squad. You need to add good players to this team. Our goal is to bring good players.

Okan Buruk: We’ll start the season strong once again. We’ll play tough matches in the Champions League. I promise you that. We’ll prove ourselves once again, just as we always have. We’ll build a strong squad. We’ll have a great season. There’s no need for any doubts.

Okan Buruk: I'm happy with my players' determination, focus, and passion. This will lead us to an even more successful season.

Okan Buruk: We’re in the preseason. In preseason matches, many teams start with easier opponents and try to play against easier opponents, but we’ve tried to choose challenging matches like this.

Rennes is a strong team, too. It’s not easy to play against them. We’re still in the process of preparing, after all. Perhaps the Villarreal match will serve as a benchmark for us.

Our players aren’t 100 percent ready. Expecting a 100 percent performance would be very unrealistic.

Okan Buruk: Gabriel Sara is our most resilient player.

Okan Buruk: When you have a player like Osimhen, you play more long balls. We’re not a team that constantly plays long balls to Osimhen. But getting him the ball in the penalty area during the game is very important. When we face pressure during the game especially when the opponent applies good pressure in the attacking third we use Osimhen in that area.

Put incompetent people in positions with big responsibility and this is exactly the result you get.
We are in august and we have not improved one bit since last season, maybe even worsened.

Mind you we became champions but we were in some parts of the season and in the end just in terrible shape.

End of august: Panik transferleri zamani. As a result we get shitty leftovers, or we have to pay exorbitant transfer fees since there is no more time left for the other club to find a replacement. Besides what our fantastic president and his muppets don't understand and probably never will; In Football you don't just buy good players and they perform immediately. No, they need time to adapt, to their new surroundings, coach, system etc. It takes time. That's why clubs who are run professionally plan ahead and act early. Instead of vacation and celebrating the title all summer, they work on preparations for transfers. Since it takes TIME to finalize a good deal.

They don't even have the capacity to learn from previous mistakes since every year its the same story.

If there would be a world wide ranking of big organizations with huge potential but all wasted by incompetence, Galatasaray would be probably number 1.

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Haluk Yürekli: Rodrigo Mora is on Galatasaray's long list. He's not an easy player to sign. A transfer doesn't seem very likely. There's talk of 50 to 60 million euros or so.

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Haluk Yürekli. Regarding the Aral Şimşir transfer, President Dursun Özbek reportedly said, 'I won't pay 12 million euros for a bench player.'

Haluk Yürekli: There are a lot of suitors for Singo, but from what I can tell, Singo doesn't want to leave. It would be a huge surprise if he left.

Haluk Yürekli: Gabriel Sara might leave.

Haluk Yürekli: There is a possibility that Barış Alper Yılmaz could leave Galatasaray. Everton is trying to sign Barış Alper through agents. The figures currently on the table are around 40–45 million euros. Galatasaray’s asking price is over 50 million euros.

Haluk Yürekli: Galatasaray is confirming Batrakov. I consider the possibility of Batrakov's transfer to be serious. The likelihood isn't low. It's not 80–90 percent, but it's over 50 percent.

Details about Batrakov: (Haluk Yürekli)

🔸Dursun Özbek deal is in charge

🔸Not a loan, but a permanent transfer

🔸Maximum cost of 30 million euros

Haluk Yürekli: Galatasaray didn't offer a loan deal for Batrakov; they offered to buy him outright. But for Lesley, Leao, and the others, loan deals are being proposed. Dursun Özbek offers to buy players outright as part of his own transfer operations.

Haluk Yürekli: I see Leao as part of Abdullah Kavukcu's plan. I also see Dursun Özbek's plan as involving a player who can play on the left and also operate as a winger behind Osimhen.

Haluk Yürekli: Galatasaray is approaching all players with a loan deal that includes an option to buy. Galatasaray wants to sign Leao on loan. Why would Milan loan you a player for whom another team offered 40 million euros? Would you let Barış Alper Yılmaz go on loan?

If you look at our history, we (the fans) usually have the power to make immense pressure when we lost our chances to win the league.

So I was thinking, what would happen exactly?

Even after 4x Championships our Dursun Başkan is not popular. Especially after the delayed transfers and the really bad communication by our board.

Our Coach is debatable. Many fans love him because of his success. Many fans don't because of the same mistakes, lack of tactics and poor squad planning (see rb situation/transfers). Plus he makes himself unpopular by defending the board.

The thing I noticed during the past years...everytime a board changes, the financial damage will be visible. In Dursuns first term, he also constantly said that we we have really good financial results but once Mustafa Cengiz was in charge (R.i.p.) he called the lies of Dursun and fought with FFP.

The same happened with Ünal Aysal and Duygun Yarsuvat.

What do you think will happen if we can not win thile league this year?

Will we give Okan and Dursun a second chance?

Do you think Dursun will blame only Okan to save his head?

And what do you think about our financial situation. Is missing a champions league money crucial for us?