The 'Alafranga' disease

Ali Koç said: "All our players who remained from the team that scored 99 points and 99 goals have regressed. I told this to Mourinho as well. May his path be clear."

Ali Koç was warned about this Mourinho even before he came to Fenerbahçe.

Previously, the damage caused by the Frenchman Comolli due to this 'alafranga' (Western-obsessed) disease had been repaired by İsmail Kartal from Rize.

He would have repaired Mourinho's damage too, but the 'alafranga' disease did not allow it.

It is clear that he will come and repair the damage in 1-2 months.

I hope it is not too late.

It was only understood after it was too late that Fenerbahçe had been sold out in the Champions League with the Benfica transfer.

The great Ali Koç and the board of directors were content to just watch; they could not even intervene in the sell-out.

In the years corresponding to the stagnation and collapse period of the Ottoman Empire, we transferred similar names from Europe as a way of salvation.

We were sold out in similar ways.

I do not know if they were circumcised (I think it is doubtful), but they became Muslims and rose to the rank of pasha.

However, these converts were no remedy for the Ottoman Empire's troubles.

The pashas who could not dare to be circumcised, no matter how acceptable they were, were not very useful because they were not brave.

Since we are certain of the circumcision of the child converts who enabled the rise of the Ottoman Empire, the reason for the Ottoman decline becomes clearly evident.

My suggestion to Ali Koç is, if there must be an uncircumcised convert, at least let it be a German.

At least we have a historical connection, dating back to the time of the uncircumcised pashas converted during the Ottoman era.