Fenerbahçe, which formalized a two-year contract with José Mourinho with another optional, will present to Special One this afternoon in a presentation event that will have the paraphernalia typical of celebrating a title. The doors of the club’s stadium will be open to supporters and thousands of fans are expected to pack the Ülker Arena in celebration of a grand presentation show that will try to erase the disappointment of the title won by Galatasaray, the twenty-fourth of its history.
The Fenerbahçe leaders maintain that the championship won by Galatasaray, the eternal rival, does not have as much impact as the arrival of Mourinho to the club will have. So, Galatasaray fans have not been slow to counterattack and predict that Mourinho will not be successful at Fenerbahçe and, furthermore, that the high cost of his signing will end up ruining the club.
It so happens that Turkey’s other big club, Besiktas, was also negotiating with the Portuguese, but in the end Mourinho chose the eternal rival. Besiktas fans are also disappointed and blame the management of the Black Eagles club for their disappointment. due to the very optimistic statement of his vice president, Hüseyin Yücel, about Mourinho’s arrival. Yücel revealed that they negotiated with the former Real Madrid coach, but that they did not reach an agreement because the club’s economic interests prevailed.
“The reason why our talks with Mourinho did not reach any conclusion is that we put the interests of Beşiktaş before everything else. With a way of understanding the club that considers even our own personal resources as Beşiktaş’s own resources, we will continue to work without hesitation for the club and do things that make the Beşiktaş family proud both during the summer market period and in the 2024 season. -2025. But to do this we will not move away from common sense. “This way we will definitely achieve great success at the end of these processes,” said Yücel.
The candidate and former president of Fenerbahçe, Aziz Yildirim, valued Mourinho’s arrival in statements full of irony. The former president had negotiated with Mourinho before doing so with the current president Ali Koc. Nonetheless, Koc accepted all of the Portuguese’s requests and led to the signing of the contract to have an advantage over Yildirim in the presidential elections on June 9. Yildirim says he is not angry about this, on the contrary, he says that “we will work with Mourinho”, and assures that the management that was done was ‘correct’, he ironized.
José Mourinho’s agreement with Fenerbahçe had a great impact in Turkey and, obviously, it will continue to do so. The journey of Special One To the Turkish country, without a doubt, it promises to spill rivers of ink and be fun. From the outset, it began with the fierce debate between the fans of two eternal rivals, Galatasaray and Fenerbahçe.
Fenerbahçe fans went crazy with joy when the club president announced that the deal with Mourinho was closed. Since then The coach became the most mentioned name in Türkiye to the point of remaining a trend for three days on the country’s social networks.
For Fenerbahçe fans it is a powerful reason to believe that they have the strongest team in the club’s history thanks to the arrival of Mourinho and the possible arrival of stars like Lukaku at the hands of the Portuguese. Now the Fenerbahçe sports management has also directed its interest to the signing of Romelu Lukaku. While Galatasaray continues to celebrate its 24th Turkish league title, Fenerbahçe fans are experiencing their particular moment of happiness with the arrival of Mourinho.
Arrival a week before the elections
With the elections for the Fenerbahçe presidency just around the corner, in one week, on June 9, The other candidate and former president Aziz Yildirim has already revealed that he will work with Mourinho, if elected. So Mourinho, whatever happens, will continue to live his first adventure in a league other than Europe’s big five. The Turks are convinced that Mourinho needed a new challenge and that, without a doubt, Fenerbahçe is the right team. But they are also aware that there is a great distance between Turkish football and that of the big five leagues, with different operating systems and policies that make adaptation to Turkish football not an easy task.
Mourinho’s arrival coincides with the worsening of Fenerbahçe’s drought in terms of league titles: a decade. And it opens the level of demands that for Fenerbahçe fans are infinite, looking at Europe. Something that contrasts with reality, even if you are Mourinho. The Portuguese coach last won in Europe with Roma, conquering the Conference League.
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