Back to work…

By: Musab | May 15th, 2009

My final papers have been handed in and my brain is filled with knowledge just waiting to put pen on paper for my final exams. Guess that means I can start to slowly resurrect the Galatasaray blog.

One of the biggest developments since I’ve been gone is the fact that every semi-respectable Spanish footy journal under the sun is screaming that Galatsaray is on the brink of bringing ex-Real Madrid manager Bernd Schuster to Istanbul on a three year 18 million dollar contract. Schuster is no stranger to the football world as being the ex manager of Real Madrid and was able to bring (straight out of his wiki entry) “beautiful football to the Santiago Bernabeu stadium with Real Madrid having the strongest offence, not beaten at home from the start of the league” He led Madrid to a title on a record amount of points in Spanish league history. He was also succesful with lesser Madrid club, Getafe.

What’s my opinion on Schuster? If you can get him, sign him. At this point we need a manager that can juggle the many stars on this team and turn them into a goal scoring machine that we know it can be. We need his discipline and his German tactical prowess. Barring a second place finish, (i.e, a miracle) it looks like Bulent will not be at the helm next year. To be honest I am kinda dissapointed in Bulents stint with us. I understand the terrible conditions under which he took over, but I at least expected him to reinvigorate the side, something I never really saw.

Coming to the sticky issue of transfers, both in and out, it looks like the Two Stooges will again try to go out and “find new talent”. Something that apparently “never ends at Galatasaray”.

Much talk has been made of the future of Umit Karan and Hasan Sas. Hasan’s contract ends this year while Umit hasn’t scored a single league goal this season. Lets not forget that Umit has scored 133 goals in the past 13 seasons, a respectable 10 goals per season ratio. While the Turkish media are swearing on their mothers graves that both won’t be part of the set-up next season, I don’t really expect either of them to leave. I predict that they’ll give Umit another chance next year and for them to keep Hasan as an older “good influence” on the kids. Which is would be the right decision.

So what do you guys think? Schuster in? Hasan and Umit out? Any suggestions for next year? Leave a comment below!