Beşiktaş, which will face Galatasaray in the 32nd week of Spor Toto Super League, made a statement from the referee before the critical match. Black-and-whites denied the allegations on social media that they demanded Ali Şansalan to run the match.
The club’s statement is as follows:
Allegations on social media that our President Ahmet Nur Çebi requested Ali Şansalan to direct the match in which our Football A Team will play against Galatasaray are completely unfounded.
As Beşiktaş JK, we would like to state that we know very well the dirty intentions of those who bring such allegations to the agenda and that we will not be a tool for these perception studies.
While reiterating that this allegation is unfounded, if it were claimed that we had a request for Halil Umut Meler, who had harmed our club many times before, whose wrongful penalty decision in the Fenerbahçe match was also expressed by MHK President Lale Orta and we clearly stated that we did not want to see him in our matches, the accuracy of this claim would be a little bit more accurate. it could be more plausible.
Moreover, this claim contradicts the statement of Mehmet Büyükekşi, President of the Turkish Football Federation, that referees are assigned to matches with artificial intelligence. Since the referee of this derby must also be determined by artificial intelligence, it cannot be expected that a predetermined name will lead our match.
Although an appointment was made with the intelligence (!), which is claimed to be manual, for the last derby match we played with Fenerbahçe, the reason for this could not be disclosed to the public.
We hope that the referee of the Galatasaray match we will play on Sunday will be appointed by artificial intelligence.
Our expectation from the referee is fair and equal management, no matter who manages the Beşiktaş-Galatasaray match.
It is our greatest wish to have a competition where the good game will be discussed and the result will be determined by the players, not the referee.
We kindly ask you not to give credit to such manipulative claims and news that occupy the public.