As for Mourinho he hasn't still made much progress in the Serie A with Roma so far. That progress has been made well in European cups surely though. First winning the Europa Conference League title and right after that making it to the finale in the Europa League. They could have won that one as well if it weren't for Sevilla's great work.

But the board will surely expect Mourinho to finish a season in top 4 indeed. It isn't an impossible task for Roma. They just need to be more consistent with the players they have currently. I don't think their squad isn't adequate or so to perform this task as well.

Galatasaray have really strengthened their squad even more for this season. They still continue to bring new players. They will surely be the number one contender for the title again. Fenerbahçe and Beşiktaş will need to show some extra performance to try not to let them pull away from themselves easily. Having the best squad of the league doesn't guarantee the league championship in the end. But there is already a solid chemistry among most of the Galatasaray players of course.

It is all about consistency now. I hope Fenerbahçe improve their look as of İsmail Kartal era and drop the number of point losses to minimum.

Barcelona's performance in the Champions League can be improved by making some changes in the system Xavi has adopted as I said before. Because the classic tiki taka system started not to work in big matches especially. And this is just keeping them away from even qualifying from the group stage.

A top level team like Barcelona can't make do with getting stuck in this stage. We have even started to watch them in the Europa League which is really an alarming situation. Fans and the board will be much more expectant from their team this season.

Xavi has a big responsibility to deal with and we will see if he can. But I feel like he will be insistent on using the same system he uses in the La Liga this season as well.

Kolo Muani is potentially a much better alternative indeed. However his cost to Inter would be like huge. Because even his market price is 80m euros and I can't imagine how Frankfurt would price him as well. I assume that it would be like 90-100m euros. Would Inter be willing to spend that much? I don't think so. While they have a wonderful and very valuable striker like Martinez they wouldn't like to bring another high cost striker to the team. They are already not very willing to spend too much money on a player.

Kolo Muani is likely to be kept by Frankfurt for another season unless some rich team decide to pay his worth.

Dortmund hope Sabitzer to fill Bellingham's place nicely. There is a big difference between these two players. While one of them is more of a very young but really skilled midfielder the other one is a much more experienced decent level midfielder. Maybe Sabitzer's talent level isn't high as Bellingham but I believe he is quality enough to keep Dortmund midfield strong. He had a short journey at Manchester United and now he is back at home which is the Bundesliga.

His best times were with Leipzig of course. He couldn't give the expected to Bayern Munich but I don't think it would be the same at Dortmund. Because he can have much more playing time to show a good level of performance.

Leclerc is also one of the really good drivers when it comes to defending their opponents. The start can be quite delightful because of that. Perez will surely try to have his best start to hunt him down already. We can see a dive from him at the end of the start straight or maybe a serious attack in the fastest part of the track a short time after.

If Leclerc manages to defend well against Perez and creates some safe time gap he can at least postpone the overtake by Verstappen a little more. But sooner or later Verstappen would take the lead and disappear. I guess there might even be a team call for Perez to give up his place for Verstappen not to hold him behind much.

Aubameyang must be really contented with leaving Chelsea now. Because he has really wasted his time there without playing properly. Lewandowski's arrival at Barcelona brought about really bad series of events for Aubameyang clearly. I'm at least happy for him that he found a club for himself this summer and didn't stay at Chelsea any longer.

Marseille is his new home now. He is technically back in France after years at the same time. You know that Lacazette has also returned here and he has been like a goal machine since the day he arrived. I would like to see the same effort from Aubameyang but let's see.

Haaland and Mbappe have technically the same natural positions maybe. However Mbappe can play as a winger as well. He is actually not a simple winger or centre-forward even if we see him in those positions in the lineup. Because he is playing much bigger than his position. He is taking big responsibilities in the attacking area. I'm just wondering how it could be to see Haaland and Mbappe at the same team. These are both very valuable world stars at the moment.

Let's say Manchester City signed Mbappe I wonder how good relationship would have been built between these two players. I feel like they might have made a really solid duo.

We couldn't enjoy a full sprint race due to rainy weather but the part we watched was still nice. Seeing Piastri doing his best was good. He even took the lead for a short time. If he had a faster car it would have been really nice to watch a competition between him and Verstappen for the lead. But it was easy for Verstappen to overtake him again and have a comfortable finish.

It is still nice to see Piastri doing really well in his first year in Formula 1. He is lucky about one thing also that McLaren have got much more powerful after the recent upgrades. Now it depends on Piastri and Norris to carry their team to upper positions in the standings.

But it won't be easy for McLaren to catch up easily because the gap is quite big with their closest opponent now.

Frankly I wasn't expecting Hungary to win at all. As of Liquid's losing today as well I have started to think that I will lose this matchup. I hope that I can get a lucky draw. Otherwise losing two weeks in a row is going to be horrible for me.  

I started the season really well actually but things started to be upside down for me recently. I'm not in a comfortable position anymore and need another good winning streak.

Hey, I would like to join the pool this year too if it isn't a problem to make the payment late. I couldn't show the performance I wanted last year. However I think I have a revenge to take from the pool participants of this year.

I came across a link to a website which showed the plane on which Icardi was coming to Istanbul. There were like 18 thousand people who were watching the plane live.    Galatasaray fans really love Icardi and he has also loved to play for them so far. If Galatasaray manage to register Icardi for the rematch against Zalgiris the fans would even be more excited about the performance of their team.

Meanwhile Fenerbahçe fans want to see bigger transfers from Ali Koç. As far as I've heard they were waiting on some sponsorship money to use it for such transfers. I hope it is true and we can also bring bigger names and consolidate our squad more. Otherwise it is likely to be even more difficult for us to go for the Super League title this season.

ÖTV dediğimiz şu an ülkenin ana geçim kaynağı haline gelen vergi türü gerçekten söylendiği gibi zamanında tek seferlik alınmış olsaydı şimdi biraz daha nefes alabilirdik. Fakat ÖTV yüzünden şu an araçların fiyatları öyle bir şişiyor ki 1 tane araba alacağım derken kendinizi birkaç tane de devlete alırken buluyorsunuz. İnsanların alım gücünü ÖTV daha da aşağı çekiyor. Böyle bir ortamda bir asgari ücretli çalışanın bırakın sıfır herhangi aracı eski model bir araç alması bile inanılmaz zor bir şey. Evini rahat geçindiremiyor ki bu kişi daha araba alsın.

Bad strategy is essential for Ferrari crew.    They are even more prone to making bad decisions under such weather conditions. If this happens I think the type of bad decision will be tyre strategies. Maybe they would call one of their drivers to pit early or late to change tyres which would cost him big time. Or maybe it would be another long pit just as they did in Hungary.

McLaren could have done better than this as well. Because Piastri and Norris seemed really good until Q3. But they couldn't have a good lap on their last attempt because of being slower in the first sectors if I'm not mistaken.

Artık öyle bir dönemdeyiz ki her gün akaryakıt zammına uyanıyoruz. Mesela daha yeni motorine zam gelmişti bugün bir zam haberi ile daha karşılaştım. Hemen ardından benzine de gelir zaten herhalde böyle böyle yıl sonuna kadar gideceğiz. Tabi bu da aynı zamanda demek oluyor ki lojistik giderleri ile birlikte tükettiğimiz gıda ürünlerine falan da okkalı zamlar gelecek. Seçim süreci bittikten sonra bambaşka bir döneme daha girmiş olduk. Aslında her seçim sonrası görülen şeyler belki ama sanki bu seferki daha ağır gibi geliyor bana.

Verstappen did a good work despite the five-place grid penalty. However I don't think it was worth exaggerating as I saw from some sources. Because the track was just drying up after rain so the lap times were getting much better in every lap for every driver. If some other drivers in Q3 had one more chance I believe at least one of them could have done better than Verstappen's lap time. This result is the best one Verstappen could have. Now he will be starting in 6th place which is very close to the lead for him. 

Depending on track conditions the race might still be quite interesting. But it is still very challenging to deal with Verstappen's dominance. I wonder if we will watch Ferrari messing it up again after seeing especially Leclerc's great qualifying effort.

Icardi bildiğim kadarıyla sonunda İstanbul'a geldi. Galatasaraylı arkadaşlar için büyük bir müjde bu çünkü son günlerde onun hakkında çok farklı şeyler de yazılıp çizilmişti. Tabi Zalgiris rövanşının kadro kaydına yetişebilir mi orası muamma ama bundan sonraki maçlar için hazır olacaktır. Tüm temsilcilerimizin Avrupa'da başarılı olmasını diliyorum.

Şimdilik elemelerde hemen hemen hepsinin işi kolay. Adana Demirspor en sıkıntıda olanı gibi görünüyor çünkü rakip Cluj. Yine de ilk maçta çok iyi bir iş çıkardığı için turu geçer gibi geldi bana.

Saudi Arabia teams continue to bring new stars to their league. This time Mane has signed for Al Nassr as you must have heard. As he had an intention to leave Bayern Munich and go there already it mustn't be too difficult for them to convince him for this deal. His new salary is going to be way higher than before as well.

While Bayern Munich are trying to finish the centre-forward transfer by bringing Kane now there is a new task for him. They will need to find a left winger for filling Mane's place as well. But I don't know if they would spend as much as money they are likely to spend for Kane of course.

Kimliklerimiz uzun zamandır yurtdışında kim bilir kimlerin elinde dolaşıyor. Önce Yemeksepeti, Getir gibi firmaların buna sebep olması sonrasında da E-devlet üzerinden bile bunun gerçekleştiğinin söylenmesi gerçekten inanılmaz. Şu an kimlik bilgilerimiz artık para etmiyor hale gelmiştir herhalde.

İnsanlar hep alakasız ülkelerden abuk sabuk aramalarla ya da mesajlarla rahatsız edildiklerini söylüyorlar. Aynısını ben de daha önce yaşamıştım.

Juventus' priority would be to qualify for the Champions League by finishing the season in top 4 now. Because they couldn't finish at a position they would like and couldn't even qualify for any European cup due to dealing with punishments. Hence even being in top 4 at the end of the season would be a success for them. But the fans will surely expect to see a title challenge from them. It is much more challenging for Juventus than the past as you know because of the improvement the other big teams have made as well.

Especially dealing with Napoli isn't an easy task recently and Inter are also likely to join the title race this season more seriously. About teams like Milan and Roma we need to see their progress first.