Sivasspor Coach Rıza Çalımbay said, “Our remaining four matches are more important than the transfer. 3 of these matches are away. Our only match at home is with Galatasaray. If we finish these matches well, it is more important than the transfer.”
Sivasspor, which camped in Antalya’s Belek tourism center in the interim due to the World Cup, defeated Saarbrücken, one of the German 3rd League teams, 2-1 in the friendly match. After the match, Rıza Çalımbay, the coach of the red-white team, made statements.
Expressing that the game they play is more important than the score, Rıza Çalımbay said, “It is not the result in the preparation matches, but the game we will play. Today we played everyone. We gave all our friends a chance. These matches are very important for us both to gain the pace of the match and to make a good entry into the league. “As I said before, the game is more important to us than the score.”
“IF YOU WANT TO GO TO EUROPE AND DO GOOD JOBS, YOU HAVE TO ENJOY IT”
Stating that they will not play a European match until March, they want to get a good position in the league during this period, the experienced coach said, “It is difficult for us to take both the league and Europe. You play a match every 2-3 days. Injuries happen. For example; you go to the match in Prague , your return is in the morning the next day. You play the game again 2 days after that. It was a difficult period for him. This break was very good for us. Some of our injured friends came. We made good use of this break and continued both to Europe and the league in the same way. Now we have the Turkish Cup. We have tight matches. We often play matches. If you want to go to Europe and do good things, you have to endure it. We need to be good in the league too so that we can play more comfortably in Europe. Our European matches are in March. We need to go well until March,” he said.
“OUR REMAINING 4 MATCHES ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE TRANSFER”
Stating that they will play 3 of the remaining 4 matches in the league, Çalimbay said, “Our remaining four matches are more important than the transfer. 3 of these matches are away. Our only match at home is with Galatasaray. If we finish these matches well, it is more important than the transfer. After that, the transfer is 1 “There must be two of them,” he said.
“NO OFFER FOR UĞUR”
Reminding that one of the important names of the team, left-back Uğur Çiftçi, is on Galatasaray’s agenda, Rıza Çalımbay continued his words as follows:
“We don’t have a chance to give Uğur right now. And there is no offer coming. We have two left-backs. Ziya is also injured. That’s why we need to recruit players rather than give them away.”
“WE WILL TRY TO GET A MAN TO REPLACE LEKE JAMES”
Stating that the regions to be transferred are not clear at the moment, Çalimbay said, “Let’s finish these matches in a good way. Leke James is injured. It’s been 6 months. We may not be able to benefit from him. Or we can make use of it late. We will try to get a man instead.”