Posts by serdar

    Turkiye and Italy would eventually have to play more with their locals. The american leagues seem to be increasing their salaries next season.

    Russian and Chinese players (even maybe Japanese ones) will fill the gaps of American players. Turkey and Italy will keep attracting good American players thanks to good salaries and league competitiveness. Biggest hit will be to lower ranked leagues like Germany, Poland, France and Switzerland. Especially Germany and Switzerland heavily rely on freshly graduated Americans players and they don't have good locals.

    Well about Saliha/Rozansky duo, I am not saying definitely not but I found it doubtful. To be honest I do not have much clue about Rozanski's seasonal performance but what I know, she did well in some international matches but sometimes she was down. I like her style and she is strong at attack but what I see that, she is impatient and sometimes careless at attack and a bit shaky at receiving. About Saliha, she was the weakest ring of the chain in NT and once moved to Poland, we heard some good news about her at the beginning of the season but later on it seems that, she did not carry the same performance until the end of the season. As far as I remember, serdar also made some comments about her a while ago. So taking all these into consideration, I guess Beşiktaş needs an additional very good and strong OH, who would be reliable both in defense and attack and then only, the team can do someting.

    I am saying the same thing for GS. Even if, they have 2 great OH's İlkin and Lazovic, who are really great at defense and good at attack but still they need another very strong attacker OH like Logan (since she is leaving for LOVB), who can attack very efficiently from everywhere and can be a game changer, when needed.

    I know that, it is difficult to reach at Fenerbahçe's level in Sultanlar within a year, since they have a well structured team but within a couple of years, it would be delightful to watch the competion of FB, GS and BJK, if they move on with good transfer strategy. Currently GS have a good pool of locals, who should be shouldered by foreigners, having a very good quality and reputation, in order to increase the spirit, motivation and the value of the team. Same for the rest of mid and low level teams.

    About rozanski/Saliha Duo. It could be a solid duo depending on which rozanski will show up. Rozanski had a great NT season but a terrible club season so it was a risky move by Beşiktaş to transfer her. She is normally very shaky at reception but she compensated it with her offense in NT last summer. On the other hand, Saliha had a mediocre season at best, especially at offense. However still her reception was very solid and she was one of the best receiving OHs (if not the best) of Polish league. So I trust that she can cover rozanski well at reception


    Dilay-Orvosova

    Maglio-Bengisu

    Rozanski-Saliha

    Gizem?


    This is a very solid team with only 3 foreigners. They just need to find a better libero than gizem who has been very disappointing this season. I think they could get a foreign libero and switch her with maglio at the backrow

    And they got one of the best local OHs, it’s really valuable


    Saliha/Rozanski would be very solid duo, they will defenitely be strong next year and maybe even challenge European spot (BVA/Challenge cup I mean)


    Also, if Cazaute to Nillufer is true them Turkish league would really have much more balance with stronger mid level teams to keep the league more competative.


    Now imagine if they allowed for 1 more foreigner and how good mid level teams would be if they could be guaranteed to have solid MB instead of gambling on some not so consistent local ones. But Besiktas managed to get whole team to work with 3 spots for next season it seems, like Galatasaray.

    No we don't need another foreign spot. We have big enough local pool, there are a lot of youngsters are also establishing themselves by getting a chance to play as starter (if there was another foreigner allowed probably this season's rising stars like Deniz Uyanık or Bengisu Aygün wouldn't have gotten chance to develop and show their potential by playing as starters. There are enough of good level locals in turkey nowadays. Look at Galatasaray's roster with so many good locals, they don't even need 3rd foreigner slot unless they will use it on libero position. Beşiktaş will have good bunch local core as well. Thy already have a lot of good locals. I expect Kuzeyboru also keep some of their good locals (this season they had 4 very good Turkish middles that could have been starter in other teams).


    All in all, Turkish league definitely doesn't need increasing foreigner quota thanks to solid local pool. There are already quiet a lot of good locals that can play in mid level teams despite some of good Turkish players like Arelya, Cansu Aydınoğulları, Buket Gulubay, tutku Burcu Yüzgec, Ceyda Aktas etc are playing abroad. What Turkish clubs need is to stop wasting money on bad foreigners like Caric, Mirkovic etc. if every club would invest on 3 good foreigners instead of mediocre ones, they can compliment them with good local players easily

    Yes and no, because if I'm being honest in terms of blocking the Polish NT has nothing to worry about and other MBs who are better in attack don't lack blocking abilities. Perhaps I'm just biased towards Gryka:lol:

    Is it really true? To me, only polish MBs who can attack as well as block are Korneluk and Gryka. Do you really think these good attackers like Centka, Wasilewska and Jurczyk are good blockers too? And other way around good blockers like Pacak and Efimienko are not great attackers. You guys follow polish players better than I do, so feel free to comment

    I feel like TVF will do some trick, maybe encourage Zeren Spor to buy someone’s Sultanlar Ligi rights. Or encourage a team to come play in Ankara.

    Its is a valuable city for them💰

    I don't expect some belediyespor's to invest as much as they did this season depending on local election results. In that case maybe Zerenspor can buy Çukurova or Sarıyer's spot

    And that's why I don't want her to go to the Olympics:lol:, guess it depends on what on what you value in a MB

    I think for a starter role, it is important to get a player who's balanced at both defense and offense. However for a bench player in NT, I prefer a player like witkowska who is specialized with one element of the game. Depending on the opponent or how a game goes, this kind of players could be more useful since you know what to expect from them

    No, they didn’t really save themselves but Lee & Drewniok did. Lee top scored 30 pts against GS in their 2-3 defeat, 27 pts in 3-1 win against Muratpasa, 25 pts in 3-2 win against Cukurova (Drewniok 2nd scorer with 19 pts), 17 pts in 3-0 win against PTT, 20 pts in 3-0 win against Aydin (Drewniok 17 pts). While Drewniok top scored 19 pts in 2-3 defeat vs Besiktas and 19 pts in another 2-3 defeat vs Kuzeyboru (Lee already left Sariyer in this match).
    Lee & Drewniok literally brought them 4 wins & 14 pts out of their final 6 wins & 21 pts. Sariyer only managed to win against the bottom two teams after they left (or more precisely were forced to leave?), and their win against PTT only came when Miao just shortly arrived PTT and played only very limited time in that match. If Miao could arrive earlier or the Sariyer PTT match was scheduled later that Miao could play as starter and helped as she did in some later matches, the result wouldn’t be in favor at Sariyer side anymore.

    Thanks to these good performances Lee ended up with good contract in Italy. It is not like she did a charity work, she was paid for what she was hired

    Gabi, Sylla and cazaute are NOT defensive OHs. Gabi is allround OH, same for cazaute. Sylla is if anything, she is more of an offensive oh than defensive oh since her reception is tragic. If you call these players as defensive oh, then voronkova is a more of a defensive oh since she is WAY better receiver and defender than Sylla and cazaute (except her good game in last match against fener, she has been very disappointing this season at both reception and attack)

    Chiaka is not going to lovb for money so offering her more money to keep her in turkey is stupid. Obviously she won't accept that.🙄


    Signing with Korneluk is the only logical part in your post

    And end up like Yasemin Güveli? I need to sign a solid foreign MB and let those youngsters play in different teams.

    That's a shame obviously, and I'm very Angry with Ferhat for that. But Bengisu is already ready to replace Beyza and play as starter in Eczacıbaşı. Whats The point of pouring so much money on a foreigner like stevanovic for such a disappointing results. At this stage in transfer market, there are not many good options left anyways.

    This is a new level of low. How disrespectful, insulting, and offensive mocking someone’s abilities in a second language. I want to report but I also know nothing is going to happen. Matthias can you at least upgrade the software or whatever it is called so that I won’t have to see a blocked user’s post when it is quoted?

    What a snowflake 🤦

    I think she would leave, maybe she will want to move back to Istanbul. I could see her in THY as backup. But I hope she will go to Aydın-Muratpaşa or something.

    Bahçelievler will probably promote to sultanlar ligi, she could go there if she really wants to move back to İstanbul. I think she is having a good season in kuzeyboru so far, she can be useful for a lot of teams

    With Markova, Arina, Kadochkina, Akimova, Fetisova, Lyashko, Ksenia Ilchenko, Goncharova, Voronkova and more, how do you think Russia would have fared in the Olympic Games this year in case they were allowed to compete?

    Gold medal contender definitely! Even serving power itself would be insane with this team:white:

    I would have played with Markova and Arina as outsides and ilchenko as receiving Opp. I don't know who their setter would be. Kobzar?

    I don't think Stysiak is mad, in the past she was always choosing teams with a very good second opposite which made her spend fair amount of time on the bench (Sloetjes, Thompson). She will have her amount of swings in NT don't u worry...

    I agree, Stysiak is not the victim here. When she signed the contract she knew very well that she will be playing a half season and then she will be the bench player for the second half. On the contrary, I think this is something she does on purpose as you pointed out