Vladimir Beschastnykh, who played for Fenerbahçe for a while, talked about the days he spent in the yellow-dark blue team in the Russian press. Here are those words…
“As soon as I got off the plane, reporters started coming to me. Microphones, cameras… I’ve never seen anything like this before. Then with a few cameras, they filmed how they took blood from me during the examination.
The doctor was just watching and the club was serving it to the television channels. I didn’t like this one.
During my time at Fenerbahçe, I never got a normal salary. The money did not arrive on time and in the amount we agreed on.
The Turks expected us to score 5 goals every match with Rebrov. Everyone was playing for himself in Fenerbahçe. How can you score a goal in such an environment?
YOUNG PLAYERS THINK THEY ARE MARADONA
Young players were picking up and dragging the ball on their own. They thought they were Maradona.
There was no transition game. I was very uncomfortable with this football. It wasn’t a game, it was like an anthill. The crowd applauded them.
They thought that individuality and skill was nice, but that changed from game to game.
I remember they brought a check to pay for the housing. We rented a house on the Asian side of Istanbul. I was looking at my phone bills, there were so many numbers. “How so?” I said. Did I call Australia? I examined it in more detail. I couldn’t believe it.”