Transfer statement from Okan Buruk: 'We will buy'

In the 18th week of the Super League, Galatasaray drew 1-1 with Gaziantep FC at home. After the match, coach Okan Buruk spoke to the broadcaster.

'THE MATCH STOPPED A LOT'Okan Buruk: "First of all, I congratulate our opponent for their fight. They played 5-3-2. Their center forward also came to defend, there was solid defense. You need to open here with quality feet. An early goal was important. We had positions with Yunus, there were set-pieces. We didn't give the opponent half-court space. We had 72-73 percent possession in the first half. We could have produced more, we struggled to produce. We had fewer players when we entered the last penalty area, we increased it in the second half. The opponent had 2 set-piece positions, we even passed it into our half. In the second half, there were passes we gave with the ball we lost. It hit 3 of our players and we conceded a goal. We could have produced more, we had difficulty in the second half. Icardi had a face to face position, a head to head position. If Sane had one or two controls, he could have been in the face. We were out of position for an attacking team like us. We should have played a more productive game, played quicker and more vertically, played one-on-ones. We didn't succeed in any of them, the game was too stagnant, not played. We had low possession time. The opponent started to get injuries in the second half. Referees also like stoppage of play. I think our dear MHK president also supports it, he says stop the game. A FIFA referee was on stoppage of play."

'WE WILL MAKE OUR FANS HAPPY'

Okan Buruk: "We have absentees, players in the national team, suspended players. We know we will be better when they return. The good performance of each player will push the other players. We know that too. We have a final Champions League match on Wednesday. We will make our fans happy that day, which we made sad today. "The winter transfer window is not easy to get players out of their teams. Sometimes the players want to leave their teams, sometimes the teams are positive and the players are not looking. It is not easy to bring players to the Turkish League. Sometimes we experience this with young players. It takes a process to convince them. In this process, you turn to many players. You go through options. Not all of them will come. There are too many names outside of us, names that we are not interested in, names that we do not meet. This inevitably leads to confusion. There is confusion as to whether this profile is this profile or this profile. I watch the matches and watch the players. We are making a lot of effort. We will buy, I always say this, we will buy. Sometimes there is a process. You get a positive signal from a player, but he played that week, he played well, then it becomes difficult to buy him. There are also such unlucky things. Even if the team intends to give the player who plays well, they don't. We will meet with our president again tomorrow, we will have a more intensive and wider meeting and we will manage the process."

'THEY THOUGHT OF DEFENDING AS A TEAM'Okan Buruk: "We thought about whether the opponent would start with 4 or 5 in defense. With Mujakic's entry into the system last night around 10-11 pm, we made preparations thinking that they would start with 3 in the back and 5 in defense today. We were expecting the opponent to be more in front, they were more on the bottom. From time to time they waited with 9, from time to time with 10 men. They stood back, they fought well. In the early minutes of the first half, Yunus had a clear position, Barış ran behind the defense and thought of a pass. There were 2 positions from set-pieces. In general, we were below our own quality in terms of production. There is a bit more work for individual talents here. Where the opponent defends at such a low level, the individual skills of the players in front and the overlapping of the fullbacks, playing fast... I can't say that we did well with the crunching passes between the lines. We lingered with the ball a lot, especially in the first half, when we were behind the opponent's defense, when we were outnumbered in the opponent's penalty area, we couldn't find players to make the final passes. This prevented us from scoring. An early goal in the first half could have broken the solid defense, we couldn't. The second half went in a similar way. We didn't bring too many opponents to our goal, we didn't pass the midfield. In the second half we gave positions with 2 lost balls. Before the goal we conceded, we were unlucky to be outnumbered 3 to 1 and conceded a goal. After that we tried to look for a goal. In the last minute Sane's clear position could have been a goal if he had found the net... In general, as I said, it is very important to take the lead in such matches. It is important to get into position. We were not very successful in this. Our opponent played good defense. They only thought about defense as a team. And they succeeded in that."