Kocaelispor announced that the highest possible offers were made to both the player and the club for the transfer of Hrvoje Smolcic, with whom they had been in talks for a long time, but the negotiations were terminated considering the financial limits of the club.
In the written statement made by the green-black club, it was stated that all conditions were strained in the long-standing negotiations for the final transfer of Hrvoje Smolcic to the club, but no concrete result could be achieved, and said, “For the final transfer to our club, both the main club and the football player made the maximum offers that our club could make under today’s economic conditions. The offers made were periodically increased and presented to the football player and his main club. However, considering the financial sustainable structure of our club, it was decided not to increase the offers further and “As of today, transfer negotiations have been stopped.”