Trabzonspor Coach Nenad Bjelica answered the questions of members of the press in Kranj, Slovenia, where the team camped. Here are the highlights from that meeting:
“WE DID NOT WANT YOU TO HAVE SOMETHING LIKE THIS”
Sending my love to Orsic. I’ve known him for 5-6 years, he’s never been injured like this. Football is such a game, unfortunately, Orsic suffered an unfortunate injury. Hakan Yeşil, who was in that position, would not want such a thing to happen. We will continue to support both of our players.
“WE WILL MAKE AT LEAST 3 MORE TRANSFER”
As soon as we got the sad news of Orsic, we started working. We are looking for someone to replace him. The number of transfers may change depending on the status of the players to leave. We are looking for box-to-box number 8 in 1 centre-forward, left wing, central midfield. The situation where this will change is the status of the players to leave. If someone leaves, we may have a search.
“SIOPIS DID NOT ACCEPT THE OFFER”
Siopis has felt a pain in her lower back for the past few weeks. Needle therapy was started immediately. Then there was a break of 3 days. He also had pain on his return. He is an important player for us. We made our offer to him for the new contract. His contract expires at the end of the season. I think the first offer was not accepted. We’ll see how the talks go in the coming weeks. This is the situation for now.
“CAMP PERIOD WAS AWESOME”
The training reactions and responses of our players were very good. Except for a few workouts, no one missed a workout. So we had a great camp.
HOW WILL THE TEAM LINEUP BE?
I mentioned earlier that we will play 4-3-3. In fact, you could call it 4-1-4-1.