Galatasaray Sportif A.Ş. Deputy Chairman Erden Timur made striking allegations about Turkish Football Federation Board of Representatives Rapporteur Ertuğrul Arslan in the live broadcast he recently attended on A Spor. Timur said, “PFDK closed at least 43 blocks as a block closure penalty against us last season. The maximum penalty given to Fenerbahçe was 11 blocks. The person who is on the TFF Board of Representatives is Ertuğrul Arslan, a Koç Holding employee. We are penalized in every match this person comes. .” He used the following expressions:
Arslan responded to Timur’s words. Speaking to Beyaz TV, Ertuğrul Arslan’s statements are as follows:
“WE ARE TRYING TO DO OUR JOB”
I went to many matches of Galatasaray in 2018 and 2019. I go to every stadium. I started as a representative in 2020. After retirement, our time was available, and we started to go to Riva more often.
They give us money like attendance fee in the boards. We also go to the matches to get something in return for this money. We are trying to supervise, we are trying to do our job. Things like this come up.
“STUPID THINGS”
Now, before closing the block, he is talking about the Trabzonspor match… They should call the representatives who came there and ask, ‘Did this man make any suggestions to you?’ Know what I mean? Because if we get into something like that, the man will complain about you three days later. Nonsense. We were, and still are, working at Koç Holding.