After years of our generous young generations which have Uğur Uçar, Arda Turan, Sabri Sarıoğlu and etc., there is a long waiting for talented youngsters who own capacity to play for Galatasaray. We’re still expecting that new ones will be brought to play for first-team.
Whatever, within absence of our greatest striker Milan Baros, our coach Frank Rijkaard has plans for backing up him place with a young player. Needless to say, Kewell has more functionalities for our tactical approach rather than being a central forward on the pitch. Also Nonda is such a slow player to challenge with opponent’s defence. So none of them can replace Baros’s defence-piercing-forward player role.
It seems, the first candidate to take this place is Anil Dilaver. He was the most scorer of 2007-2008 Turkey Super Youth Tournament. 19 years old player scored 17 goals previous season. Our assistant manager Johan Neeskens watches him and reports his current status to Rijkaard. His primarily characteristics which can be noticeable at first-sight; creativity, technique and playing with both feet.
My first disappointment about coming season, I hope it will be the last at the same time. While we’re watching relegated Newcastle United’s “yellow” jersey sales from the distance, Galatasaray surprised us with purple jersey. I dare say these jerseys are going to cause an outcry too.
We’ve visited Galatasaray Store tonight to take a closer look at them. The store staff informed us about sales, jersey advertisements and future products. And after that I began to consider that Alternative jersey isn’t the point indeed, because fans quickly got used to last season’s orange jersey as I remembered.
The point is, first two jerseys aren’t nearly good enough to satisfy people’s expectations. First of all, Gala haven’t produced the perfect remake of its classical jersey named “Metin Oktay Classic” and straight white jersey. Every season jerseys have some design, quality or advertisement problems in detail in spite of fans’ common ideas and guidance. I must say, I will regret to watch Galatasaray in those jerseys.
By finishing last season, we had watched most terrible season of Galatasaray. I called it terrible, because Galatasaray has never been lost, shattered and hopeless like this season. But everyone is still expecting more from Gala.
For coming season, Galatasaray made a hot start with getting Frank Rijkaard in charge. After first wave of shock, we heard that his staff-mates from Barcelona were coming with him including another legend, Johan Neeskens. Yes, we can call them as legends even though their fame always stayed behind Cruyff, Gullit and Van Basten.
We passed friendly matches and first leg of our UEFA Europa League qualifying but Rijkaard haven’t released first-team squad to pitch yet. So far, we found a chance to watch many youngsters of Gala. None of them except Emre Çolak and Serdar Eyilik look fit to play for first-team. Surprisingly, Emre Çolak and other youngsters relegated to youth team whereas Serdar confirmed his capacity and talent.
I suppose this flamboyant player is skilled enough to replace side-winger position after Arda Turan’s future departure. Also he’s looking like Theo Walcott, another wonderkid from Arsenal.
Congratulations to Serdar, I hope you’ll be better under the leadership of Rijkaard.
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