Beşiktaş Presidential Candidate Serdal Adalı made statements about the agenda of the black and white club on a YouTube channel.
Responding to President Hüseyin Yücel’s previous statements, Adalı said: “I no longer started to take Hüseyin Yücel’s statements seriously. When he said ‘I will hold the person who made this team accountable’ etc., I had doubts for a moment.” he said.
Here are Serdal Adalı’s statements…
“THE COACH CHANGES EVERY TWO MONTHS”
“A co-chairmanship system that has never been seen before in Beşiktaş has been invented. Hüseyin Bey, Onur Bey and Samet Hoca have separate teams. If there are 7 different football minds in a club, this will be the result. Last 20-25 I have never seen anything like this in a year. The coach changes every two months. There are conversations that start with some statements such as commissions and fake documents that should never have Beşiktaş’s name on them, but we have gone through very bad days. “There are very serious problems. Beşiktaş may lose money, but it cannot lose its reputation. I became a candidate with the fear that I would find a much worse Beşiktaş when I wait for May. We have determined how we will get out of this. Hopefully, the general assembly will show favor in the elections and we will start with a clean slate as of the new year.”
“BEŞİKTAŞ NEVER CAME TO THIS STATE”
“I need to eliminate this division. Even though we had arguments with most of the presidents from time to time, we did not lose our love and respect. We will come together with the elders of the community. Beşiktaş has never come to this situation. There have been such problems financially, but… Beşiktaş will not end. We will go to 90 people like that and I don’t have a project like giving 5-10. There needs to be a new inflow of money to Beşiktaş. I was sad that I lost the last election, but I was even sadder because I couldn’t start the real estate project. “I know how we will get rid of it. The man who is interested in this job knows how to pay the mentioned 50 million euros. I will meet with the owners about this project again tomorrow morning. This community will stand behind me, it is difficult to do otherwise.”
“I DO NOT TAKE HÜSEYİN YÜCEL SERIOUSLY”
“I no longer started to take Hüseyin Yücel’s statements seriously. When he said, ‘I will hold accountable the person who made this team,’ I had doubts for a moment. Mr. Hüseyi almost made me say that I will hold Serdal Adalı to account. The things he said seem to make fun of people’s minds. Who is going to hold who accountable? If I had spent this year, I wouldn’t have the courage to go out. If anyone is to blame for this situation, it is the board of directors. Nobody should try to get ahead of themselves. It is the president’s. It is in all the transfers. Mr. Hüseyin, who will he hold accountable? As Fikret Orman said last time, I say ‘the priest eats the same rice once’.
Hüseyin Bey said about the last election, ‘All the notables and former presidents of the community supported Serdal Adalı.’ It means that the leaders and former leaders of the community knew this community better and supported me. They saw the point we have reached today that day.
My total management tenure at Beşiktaş is 18 months, 6 months of which was at Metris. Mr. Hüseyin talked about a loan of 75 million euros received from DenizBank during the period of Yıldırım Demirören. Hüseyin Bey’s brothers, who advised him, confused the dates. I am in Yıldırım Demirören’s last year. I was at the time when the loan was taken, and I also have an account of where and how much was used. Don’t believe too much in the promises made by your elder brothers. “They are misleading Mr. Hüseyin.”
“MY WORKING WITH HÜSEYİN YÜCEL”
“If Hüseyin Yücel intends to do something for Beşiktaş without showing off, he is welcome to come. But I will not work with Hüseyin Yücel in the last year, I’m sorry. No one should force me.”
“I DON’T PROMISE THINGS I CAN’T DO”
“I have told the truth in every election I have participated in. I have never promised things that I could not do. I have never dragged anyone into the world of dreams. Those who made these dreams happen a year ago are no longer there. But I am sitting here. Hüseyin Yücel’s 50 million euro talk does not end. He distributes it through channels. There is no need for words. Can he say ‘I am depositing 50 million euros to the Banking Association tomorrow’? ‘No. “I will put it in,” he says. “If it is a promissory note, we will put in 50 each.”
“I 100% TRUST ÇEBI IN FINANCIAL MATTERS”
“We thought that in the last acquittal vote of Ahmet Nur Çebi, financial and administrative votes would be voted separately, as in the old statute. Today, I would not acquit Ahmet Nur Çebi administratively, but financially, I trust Ahmet Nur Çebi 100%.”
“I WILL WORK WITH SERGEN YALÇIN”
“I want to work with Sergen Yalçın. Sergen Yalçın is the best coach who can work with me. The sports director system does not work in Turkey. A foreign coach may be a foreign sports director. But there is no sports director above a Turkish coach.”
“I WON’T GIVE €30 MILLION TO A 34-YEAR-OLD PLAYER”
“No one should think that ‘Beşiktaş Football Team will shrink’, such a thing is impossible. Don’t worry, we will buy players that no one else can buy. However, we must improve financially. I will give 10 times more importance to the infrastructure than before. Nobody should expect me to give 30 million euros to a 34-year-old player. I will not, at least.” “I won’t give it at least for the first 1.5 years.”