Sadettin Saran withdraws from candidacy!

Sadettin Saran has announced that he has withdrawn his candidacy for the Fenerbahçe presidency.

Saran stated that he will support Ali Koç, who has announced his own candidacy.

Here are the statements from Sadettin Saran:

"As is known, regarding our club's upcoming Ordinary Elective Congress, we had stated many times with our reasons that we would not be candidates if our President, Mr. Ali Koç, were to run, and that otherwise, we would aspire to manage our club together with our team.

Due to the fact that our president's decision regarding his candidacy had not been clarified over a long period of time, and considering the short time remaining until the elections, we were forced to make a press statement a few days ago. We had stated that if the President did not express a will to continue in his post by Friday, May 10, we would unconditionally aspire to this sacred duty as of Monday, May 13.

The President called us on Friday, May 10, at 16:00 to convey his request for a meeting, and as of 12:00 today, he honored us with his presence along with his fellow board members.

First of all, we would like to thank the President once again in the presence of the public for both his sincere visit today and for the appreciation he expressed regarding our stance, discourse, and actions throughout this process.

We would like our esteemed community to know that during this meeting, we held detailed consultations regarding the current situation of our club and reached an agreement on extremely important issues regarding its future.

Our President sincerely spoke to us about his plans for the future of our club, explained his goals in the race to serve Fenerbahçe, and clearly expressed his desire to continue his duty at the head of our club for a successful, united Fenerbahçe that we all desire.

It must be known clearly and definitively that the high interests of Fenerbahçe are above all kinds of personal ambition and ego.

This is our common motivation with the President.

We would also like to express our full determination not to surrender the world's greatest sports club, Fenerbahçe, to certain internal and external elements that want to use it for their own ambitions, that desire to manage it by dividing, fragmenting, and creating hostility, and even to the vulture culture that wants to derive power from the potential failures of our club.

On this occasion, we wish for the President's services to our club to continue with increasing momentum, together with a brand new spirit and formation; and together with our friends, we are withdrawing our candidacy in the upcoming ordinary elective congress in favor of our president, Ali Koç.

We wish our elections to be beneficial to our community and Turkish sports, and we present our deepest respects.

Sadettin Saran"

News Source: 12punto