Interesting read about Basaksehir

[BOYSIE31]

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[chekhov]

We'll be fine so long as Dyche doesn't create a sh1t storm by shaking hands with Erdoğan before the game.

[gawthorpe_view]

Sounds a bit like Milton Keynes, new suburb, new club, not overly supported.

[BOYSIE31]

Some players are quite old

[cricketfieldclarets]

Theyve some good players no doubt.

Turan is quality. He scored a hat trick in a game I went to at the nou camp against Borussia Monchengladbach and was phenomenal that night. Believe it or not he is only the 6th player to score a champions league hat trick for Barca. Not in bad company alongside Rivaldo, Ronaldinho, Messi, Etoo'o and Neymar.

[Colburn_Claret]

Might as well flip a coin as to how this is going to turn out.
I just hope we go in with the mentality that they are Barcelona rather than Bolton.

[spt_claret]

Emre Belozoglu plays for them, the last active player on Pele's list of the 125 greatest footballers of all time. But then that list had El Hadji Diouf on it so I think Pele was on something when he wrote it.

[Claretmatt4]

All overpaid mercenaries who have gone for one last pay day I reckon.

We'll **** em.

[Buxtonclaret]

Think they only lost 3 league games last season.
Conceded 28 in 34.

Might not mean much, as I'm pretty ignorant on Turkish footy.
Sounds they might be good across the back.

[jrgbfc]

Will be a very tough game. Think it's their first competitive game so hopefully we'll be sharper.

[Winstonswhite]

To finish above Besiktas and only 3 points behind the giants Galatasaray and Fenerbache takes some doing. They’re obviously a very good team and favourites for a reason.

[scouseclaret]

This article is quite revealing- explains why Basaksehir don’t seem to be very popular...

https://www.ft.com/content/d18a2dc4-2df ... 7563b0b0f4" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[tiger76]

To finish above Besiktas and only 3 points behind the giants Galatasaray and Fenerbache takes some doing. They’re obviously a very good team and favourites for a reason.

Suits us being underdogs though we usually perform better then,this tie should fit our style of play easier,the onus won't be on us attacking constantly either.

[cricketfieldclarets]

Emre Belozoglu plays for them, the last active player on Pele's list of the 125 greatest footballers of all time. But then that list had El Hadji Diouf on it so I think Pele was on something when he wrote it.

Think he was just trying to please people with some choices. Was originally meant to be 100 but he ended up stretching to 125 to fit in loads of random players from different countries.

Emre was (is???) A very good player though.