Posts by serdar

    she’s on the right path. But she has a way to go to be included in that group when we talk about all time best players.

    Depends on what criteria you judge those players. I think picking all time is kinda pointless if they never play against each other so it would be comparing apples and pears. However if we are talking about active players she definitely belongs to the same group of egonu, haak and boskovic.

    There will be 12+1 players. So one of Julia k and Diana will be +1 probably. Also one of natinha and nyeme won't be going to Paris. Maybe ze would bring both liberos and skip second opp. To be honest, that should be the way to go if he is really taking RosaMaria who can be the bench player for both positions. And in that scenario other libero can replace Ana C. In the backrow so that Gabi doesn't have to cover a huge space at reception. clara who do you think ze will drop among these 14 players and which one would be 13th player?

    Not too many but I watched Bianka İlayda Mumcular against Serbia on 27th of Jan24 at the beginning benched but as soon as she stepped in, she made a huge impact and changed the match with an excellent performance. I know that, this not enough and needs more time to prove the consistency but all I can say that, she is very talented with very good foundation, focused, highly motivated and very strong. These specs are good enough for recognition. Surely Santarelli and his technical staff noticed this performance.

    Truly, I have not much insight about Defne Başyolcu.

    I've watched that game too,she was a good substitute. However I like Liza safranova more indeed, she was always starter in youth and junior NTs . That's why I was surprised that İlayda was invited instead of Liza. I thought maybe İlayda had a great season in second division 🤷

    She 37 yo and gets tired after a while but she carried Beşiktaş this season and was go to player in attack. Its a good deal if they also signed Orvosova. She is unstable so it would make sense to keep Brakocevic.
    If Brakocevic will be their only OPP then yeah, they should've went for someone else.

    As a backup to orvosova, I can understand but as starting Opp, it would be terrible because Beşiktaş has everything in place to aim 6th place next season, except the Opp position

    No news from Sarıyer yet. First candidate for relegation?

    Why didn't they sell their rights to Göztepe 🤦:hit::wall: can't we have one season without at least one team determined to relegate even before the beginning of season? This season it was karayolları and I think the year before was ilbank. Then it becomes pointless to play a 14-teams league

    I can’t comprehend ecza. They had the whole season to understand that jole was not it. Not the difference maker, blocking threat you need. How come you can’t strike a deal with hot prospects like aleksic, kurtagic, or the german MB i cant recall or korneliuk who are most probably a lot cheaper than jole.

    Weitzel?


    Korneliuk was the best fit for Eczacıbaşı! I would even prefer Butigan or zakhchoui over Stevanovic

    Lol the way this insecure mod targets me when I am not even in the picture :rolll::rolll::rolll: You are a hypocrite and an enabler and we are indeed tyrants against that, this is how the world goes, you can't just silence people you don't like and expect them to be nice in return. Don't expect us to think your fake niceness and polite phrasing changes anything. The world needs less polite people and more KIND people in my books, some people seem to think these things are interchangeable but they are absolutely not.


    I have disagreed many times with both Santastongue and Serdar, just because I also agree with them on certain matters doesn't mean we are besties. Surprise surprise, you are not part of a sole majority of thought and reason lol.

    Yes I historically had my biggest beefs with Altinli indeed. Ah good old times 😂

    Good choice, my list would be slightly different:


    Drca/Elif

    Boskovic/VanRykVargas

    Fedorovsteva/Gabi/SWPAna Cristina/Ilkin

    Ogbogu/Eda/Asli/Jack

    Kinik/Ayca/Simge


    I've excluded Lee and Markova because they left half way through the season otherwise they were the two most impactful outsides and would have ended up on top of my dream team.


    Honorable mentions: Büşra Kılıçlı (very good season, both great blocking and attacking performance) Yasemin Güveli (phenomenal second half of season, 1.23 block per set is an insane stat in such a mediocre team like Çukurova), Logan Eggleston (she played incredible after she switched to Opp), Anna Nicoletti (carried her mediocre team with a very consistent performance throughout the season) Aslıhan Kılıç (great at playing the most boring but efficient volleyball style, also very good server)

    :rolll: We can always rely on Turkish league thread for high quality shade on all flanks.


    I wanna thank all communities here for their contributions this season. Turkish, Serbian, Russian, Brazillian in particular as usual slayed. :rose:


    See y'all next season, Busa will be in a mid level team again btw serdar our fave team is decided.

    Hahah yeah go Aras kargo! #teambusa❤️ finally in a team that deserves her🤣

    Eczacıbaşı is keeping Jovana Stevanovic 💀

    Noooo🤦🤦🤦🤦


    She is so hot and cold, the last thing eczacibasi needs is another unreliable/inconsistent player. Yes there's no other top mb left to sign at this point but why did they wait till almost may🤦 all good ones signed already in Feb/march.

    I think that the reason behind the fact that they send Arina in China is just that she has be stable all those years. After 3 years in FB she should be a monster but she does no seem to have some difference between these season. The opposite I could said. Vargas improved a lot after her season in China and they trying to do the same with Arina. Also Vargas after her injury needs to play in the highest level to come back and thats why they made a good decision.

    My question now is what will happend with Stysiak. I hope that she will transfer to THY.

    Chinese league is not competitive at all! How could you attribute her improvement to playing in china?🤦 Improvement comes from playing in a competitive league and a good coach. I don't think playing in china made Vargas improved so I don't have high expectations in that sense for Arina neither

    The best oh award was solely for finals not league best. That's why it is fair to give the award to Ana, Arina had a few sets she shone but overall ana was the better one considering only the final series, which the award stands for.


    Congratulations to Fenerbahçe, overall great season for them except failing to reach cl finals. Also kudos to Eczacıbaşı for bringing the series to 5. Unfortunately another season of being always the bridesmaids never the bride moment for them🥺

    Nice overview! I hope one day we can watch she and Arina at the same league to see who is the ace queen. I have a soft spot for good jump servers😍