I am not sure about what I am going to say. Imoco's president had said some really disrespectful things before. The first thing comes to my mind was to imply that Gunes was a low level player (she was pretty bad that times due to injuries if I remember right).
I think that there is a misunderstood. When it comes to the word ''Turks'' it's not necessarelly means Vakifbank. Seeing what FB and GS did the last and this season make a lot of sense. There's no a specific and long-term plan in their actions. The last season GS signed, I do not even remember who many foreign players, only in order to have them on bench. FB signs a different coach every single season and change players without any logic, simply because the fans are displeased. Abbodanza departure makes zero sense. I have never seen FB works better as a team and under his leadership Arina made a huge step as a player. Castillo make zero sense as a transfer. Jack is amazing and should be starter, but what is FB going to do with their MB's? Benching Eda? It would be the right thing to do, if they want to change things but... On the other hand, Ana Cristina who is a top level player will stay in FB and do what? Be Hande's back up? Their biggest weakness, which is by far the second OH is going to remain the same and Baladin had negative efficiency in the finals... There are so many foreigns that they can not play all. Some will be on bench very unhappy.
Even in Ecza, Ishikawa's transfer make zero sense again, considering that Yaprak is truly progressing and becomes a stronge player. Ebrar is the number one, Uzelac is clearly a player with far greater potential and a higher ceiling than Ishikawa, and she will obviously be a priority for the club. Are you really trying to tell me that after giving so much playing time to Yaprak, who is also domestic — and who played ahead of Plummer, who has competed at a much higher level than Ishikawa and has actually won things — the club will suddenly ignore her and invest in Ishikawa? Especially considering that Ishikawa is a foreign player and basically has a really big disadvantage in her game — something that becomes a bigger problem, when you consider that top teams are becoming more and more physical. Remember what I’m telling you: the Japanese player will end up rotting on the bench and will only be used as a serving substitute. Even Vakif signed a MB only for the CL...
Again I do not know if what he told it's right or not, but generally Italian clubs are usually invest more in specific player ( which are paid less than they are payed in Turkey), locals or not, and insist too much until to see the result that they want. Plummer is an example. They let her get destroyed many times until to see her progress. Nobody in Turkey could let a player get destroyed- and dag the whole team down with her- in a CL final game, like Santarelli did... They give too much time and trust to Sillah and she really did not delivered a lot. Nothing really intersting in her perfomances, but yet they kept her and they'll wait to see how she will do the next season. Milano is also an other example. This season they player with Piva, Lanier and even Kurtagic who seemed to be really problematic as an attacker... Nobody of these three ( and even if someone desagrees with Hena let's say two) had ever played as starters in a top team before. They played in a final and they had 4 players ( Piva, Fersino, Lanier and Bosio) that have never experienced playing in a final...
I mean that in general Italians are more patient with their players, while in Turkey when you are foreign you just leave the club the moment you do not deliver ( Even after telling to the world that she is some kind of voleyball godess, Guidetti decided in some months to let Egonu go and go for Boskovic, for whom said to the world that he always know how to stop her...). The question is: Is this just a philosophy as Imoco's president said, or a compromise due to the fact that Italians have less money and must somehow to compete against ''the Turks''...
Idk