Football à la Turca (a Turkish Football podcast)

Following our back-to-back interviews with George D. Metellus and Samantha Johnson we decided to delve in to some transfer talk this week.

Kaan Bayazit, Burak Sezgin and Özer Dindjer are joined by Kaan Özgök this week (@bukowskigs on Twitter).

We focussed mainly on Fenerbahçe and Galatasaray in this episode, topics discussed include but aren't limited to Max Kruse, Altay Bayindir, Garry Rodrigues, Emre Belözoglu, Deniz Türüç and Vedat MUriqi for Fenerbahçe and Ryan Babel, Emre Mor, Fernando (and more) for Galatasaray. Aswell as Tyler Boyd heading to Besiktas? we also take a quick look at Obi Mikel's move to Trabzon, go over their transfers and our expectations for them this coming season and what they'll need to contend for the title. A lot of transfer talk!

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Our upcoming guest: John McManus

Next week we'll be sitting down with John McManus, author of "Welcome to Hell" (you can purchase his book on Amazon). 

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You can follow the hosts of our show on Twitter @Razzerian, @Ataqoz and @Burakiosaurus aswell as our official account @FootiealaTurca.

Football á la Turca continues it's line of fascinating summer interviews with world renowned sports journalists/broadcasters this week as the guys are joined by the lovely Samantha Johnson of TRT World.

Sam lifts the curtain and tells us the story of how she got in to the fascinating world of sports journalism, including the difficulties for her as a woman in a largely male dominated industry. Sam also tells her about her decision to get in to the crazy world of Turkish sports broadcasting, women's football in life and much more! A truely inspirational story of how perseverence and hard work can get you where you want to be in your life.

Burak Sezgin and Özer Dindjer are back this week, joining Kaan Bayazit to conduct the interview with Miss Johnson.

You can watch some of Sam's groundbreaking reports, including the one on the ladies of Hakkarigücü on YouTube, links below.

Hakkarigucu

https://youtu.be/H29rYgAhyoc

No Burak Sezgin or Özer Dindjer this week, meaning the duo of Kaan Bayazit and Umut Naderi did the heavy lifting on this week's episode of Football á la Turca.

And joining us this week as our featured guest is beIN SPORTS USA's George D. Metellus, who covers the Turkish league games and hosts the highlight show alongside Eric Krakauer. We delve in to how George got started in the business of football coverage, how he got in to football in general, his favourite teams and his impressions of the Turkish League.

We also discuss George's perceived differences between the Turkish league and the rest of the European top 5 leagues, what Turkish clubs could do to increase their profile in the United States and much, much more.

You can follow George D. Metellus on Twitter @GDMetellus8! Follow our hosts Kaan Bayazit (@Razzerian) and Umut Naderi (@Eidolast) aswell as the show's official Twitter account @FootiealaTurca.

Freshlyl coming off our interview with Gabriele Marcotti in E17 (go listen to that one if you haven't yet!) we're digging in to Turkey's EURO qualifier results from the past two weeks (2-0 win vs. France and a 2-1 defeat vs. Iceland).

Kaan, Burak, Özer and Umut also delve in to transfer mercato in Turkey, adressing both the more high profile rumours (such as Ever Banega potentially heading to Galatasaray) aswell as the already confirmed deals (Okan Buruk to Basaksehir, etc.).

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You can also follow our podcast hosts: Kaan Bayazit (@Razzerian), Özer Dindjer (@Ataqoz), Burak Sezgin (@Burakiosaurus) and Umut Naderi (@Eidolast).

The Turkish Süper Lig season might be over but Football á la Turca continues. And we start off the Summer with a bang! With this, our first interview in what will hopefully become an interesting lineup over the next two months, with none other than ESPN senior writer Gabriele Marcotti!

Mr. Marcotti shines his light on many interesting topics, including the current state of Turkish football, how can it improve? What are his thoughts on a foreigner limit. His take on UEFA's planned third club competition. Financial Fairplay and much, much more!

Besides being a worldwide respected football expert, Mr. Marcotti is also an author of 4 books, you can find his books on Amazon! His latest book "Hail, Claudio!: The Man, the Manager, The Miracle" is currently just GBP 3,99 on Amazon for Kindle if you have Prime: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hail-Claudio-Man-Manager-Miracle-ebook/dp/B01LWN343O/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=gabriele+marcotti&qid=1560462175&s=gateway&sr=8-2

You can follow Mr. Marcotti on Twitter (@Marcotti) and the hosts of our show: Kaan Bayazit (@Razzerian), Burak Sezgin (@Burakiosaurus) and Özer Dindjer (@Ataqoz).

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Unfortunately due to technical difficulties with our recording software this week's episode's raw recording was rendered useless, so Kaan had to do record a quick 15 minute summary of what would've been our episode this week. We apologies for not being able to provide you with your usual 1 hour+ of Turkish football goodness this week, but we promise to make it up to you in the coming weeks. In the meantime, we hope you will enjoy the festivities of this week and wish you all a very happy Bayram!

Music at the end of this episode by Baris Manco "Bu Gün Bayram".

Welcome back to Football á Turca with the conclusion of the 2018-2019 Turkish Süper Lig campaign, with the Championship already decided we only had third place left to be decided between Besiktas and Trabzonspor, but more importantly Göztepe, Bursaspor and Erzurum had to determine among eachother which two teams would join Akhisar in the second tier of Turkish football next season. 

This week Kaan Bayazit (@Razzerian) was joined once again by Umut Naderi (@Eidolast), Burak Sezgin (@Burakiosaurus) and the returning King Özer Dindjer (@Ataqoz).

With a bit of a delay we're back with episode 14 of Football á Turca, unfortunately without party animal Özer Dindjer who is still M.I.A. in Turkey (probably celebrating Galatasaray's 22nd league title). But Burak Sezgin makes his triumphant return following a two week absence and Kaan is also once again joined by Umun Naderi - who experienced Galatasaray's title victory from the stands - and also special guest Bruno Bottaro, who gives some insights in to the mind of Abdullah Avci.

You can follow our hosts on Twitter: Kaan Bayazit (@Razzerian), Umut Naderi (@Eidolast), Burak Sezgin (@Burakiosaurus) and Bruno Bottaro (@br1bottaro).

Please also vote on our Twitter poll in regards to a patreon service and whether you would be interested!

https://twitter.com/FootiealaTurca/status/1130937456042401792

Breaking news update on the situation at Ankaragücü, concerning a developing story related to the club's financial issues with unpaid wages. Two players have terminated their contracts while former player Michael Klukowski has notified the club through his lawyer that he has gone to FIFA regarding his owed wages. There is even talk of a six point deduction for next season.

Thank you to special guest Nadeem Raja for an accurate and factual update on the ongoing situation, you can follow him on Twitter @Kankagroup.

We've got some more heated debates for you in this week's edition of Football á la Turca following the exciting but highly controversial conclusion of matchday 32 in the Turkish Süper Lig. Burak Sezgin and Umut Naderi couldn't join us this week, but Pat Cox was so kind to fill to add a Fenerbahçe voice to the podcast.

Follow our account on Twitter: @FootiealaTurca or our hosts Kaan Bayazit (@Razzerian), Özer Dindjer (@Ataqoz) and Patrick Cox (@PtCx).