A review of this winter transfer window, and more...

[temris]

I can finally write this entry that I've been planning for days on my mind... I just didn't have the time.

At the start, all we needed was one midfielder, and a left back. Things got changed though, we used Bayern having an injury crisis (along with the Asian and the African cups happening) to our advantage and sold Boey (yes, my favorite guy in the team 😭) for a whopping $30m with $5m in bonuses. Now that sounds really good, but it created another crisis for our team. Because along with him, they also sold Bakambu and Angelino (granted, we didn't really used either of them that much, especially the latter was disappointing) and sent Kazımcan on loan. Initially I wanted to believe that the management would have someone in hand and will pay with Boey's money but THEY DIDN'T. And they just announced Aurier some days later, I don't really remember now that it's been some time.

IT'S LIKE A JOKE. Aurier is a lot older, so we won't be able to sell him for a better price later, nor we could play him UNTIL HE RETURNED FROM THE AFCON like!!!!! Did you guys not think about this at all????? People said "we'll only be getting him for half a season, we need rotation players" etc. etc. BUT GUESS WHAT HAPPENED. He got into the club and IS IN INJURY LEAVE RN. IT REALLY IS LIKE A JOKE... 🙄

I already have problems with half the players in our team (especially Tete...) and the newcomer Vinicius hasn't really impressed me either. To his defense, he hasn't played a lot but it's not looking very positive so far. (I catched up the last 30 mins of the Ankaragücü match this evening, and the two didn't let me down again - ie. played VASATIN ÜSTÜ)

It hurts more when you think that we are playing in three different competitions at the same time. I'm already sad about the CL, and now I can't give up the dream of Europa Cup! WE NEED IT. I don't want us to get eliminated before seeing at least the semi-finals. BUT WITH THIS MANAGEMENT IT DOESN'T LOOK VERY LIKELY. 😔😔

We had our first match against Sparta Praha and it was really stressful as was all of our CL matches... I didn't really had a positive outlook beforehand, as mentioned with our lack of good transfers, and our performances in the last few matches. Icardi has been on a downfall for a long time after his injury, Kerem also couldn't really show his actual skills lately; and if you consider the amount of injured players in our core 11... it didn't really look good, but before the match most of them returned and we got a win. But BARELY. Idk... I think we play better in away matches, but I hope this won't become Köpekhag 2: Electric Bogaloo.
Apart from Galatasaray, I want to talk about Thomas too. 😘

Bayern have been in a weird state. They're not doing "bad" bad, but they were eliminated from DFB-Pokal weeks ago, I think maybe even last year? (I'm not sure. I'm not a Bayern fan 🤷‍♀️) And weird losses like these have been happening. They also lost to Frankfurt, as well as the Leverkusen match a few days ago. Before they could process that, the first CL match after the group stages against Lazio happened and THEY LOST AGAIN! I was ofc, SUPER HAPPY LOL 😋 (Tbh my heart is always torn with Bayern, because at the start only Thomas was there, but now Sacha also joined them so it's super effective against my heart 💀)

Thing is, for weeks and weeks, especially before Thomas' contract being extended, he had been benched - I remember mentioning that before. I feel like T*chel started him a few times just for the sake of having done that, bc after a while Thomas went back on the bench! So I was like, "yeah, see how you lose the matches when you don't start him". Another thing is, they always send Thomas for the interviews when they lose. Nearly nobody else stays to give a speech, so it's really annoying how he's always the "scapegoat" for the losses when he barely gets any minutes.

After the Lazio loss, he gave another interview and it was probably the first time I've ever seen him that angry.

In a silly (and jealous?) way, I feel grateful for this happening. Stay in that club Thomas and see how they treat ya! *sigh* Okay, okay - I feel really bad for him. He should have left that club years ago... but I guess that's what love makes you do.

I just... I feel things and think things that I never think when the subject is Thomas. And I get really angry with his decisions like this as if I have any say in his life LOL. I need help. 🤦‍♀️

I had some more things I wanted to talk about, but I can't really remember now. I have to return to studying, so I'll stop now. :)