Swords drawn before the Fenerbahçe election: Salvos from Ali Koç to Aziz Yıldırım!

Fenerbahçe President Ali Koç responded to presidential candidate Aziz Yıldırım, who criticized him before the election by saying, "A Fenerbahçe President does not fire blanks into the air!"

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Swords drawn before the Fenerbahçe election: Salvos from Ali Koç to Aziz Yıldırım!

The presidential election at Fenerbahçe has arrived. Harsh statements continue to come from both candidates in the election where current president Ali Koç and former president Aziz Yıldırım will compete.

Fenerbahçe presidential candidate Aziz Yıldırım, recalling the general assembly meeting held by Ali Koç with the agenda of 'withdrawing from the league', had said, "They gathered 22 thousand congress members at the stadium. The members left with a feeling of being deceived. No one was satisfied with the decisions taken. A Fenerbahçe President does not fire blanks into the air. If he is going to do something, he does it. He does not bluff about something he will not do."

Ali Koç's response to these words from Yıldırım was not delayed.

"THE STATEMENT I AGREE WITH MOST FROM AZIZ YILDIRIM..."

Speaking to Sözcü, Koç stated, "The statement I agree with most from Aziz Yıldırım is the remark that 'A Fenerbahçe President does not fire blanks.' Then one must ask him: After our team bus was shot at on April 4, 2015, why did you play a week later even though you said, 'We will not play in matches until the perpetrators are found'? Everyone in our community knows who has been firing blanks for 26 years. We do not. We did not allow the lynching attempt in Trabzon to be covered up."

"HE LEFT FENERBAHÇE ALONE, NOT ME"

Reminding that Aziz Yıldırım did not shake his hand after the 2018 presidential election, Koç said, "Then he neither came to the certificate of election ceremony nor did a handover process take place. He left Fenerbahçe alone, not me. Now he is a candidate again and has made very ugly slanders about me. I leave it to the conscience of Fenerbahçe fans that someone who talks big avoids coming face to face."

Koç continued as follows:

"THE COMMUNITY DOES NOT FORGET THREATS"

"I have the largest community in Turkey behind me. If I say 'I am left alone', I would be doing an injustice to the fans. But Aziz Yıldırım and his team, let alone being by our side, constantly stood against us. The complaint about İrfan Can Kahveci, his claiming that I gave money openly to Jose Mourinho's agent... The Fenerbahçe community has not forgotten, and will not forget, the threats he made to the Fenerbahçe President, such as 'I will send you away with this audience'..."

"OUR MOURINHO SCENARIO WAS READY"

Stating that Mario Branco was the first to make contact with the new coach Jose Mourinho, Ali Koç said, "We prepare the infrastructure for the best and worst-case scenarios for everything. When the day comes, we put them into practice according to the conditions. The best-case scenario was to be the champion. Our appropriate scenario was ready. The plan B in case we did not become champions was also ready. We had contact with Mourinho, but we did not negotiate. In the end, we signed the papers. Our expectation is to be the champion in the league and to advance as far as we can in Europe's two major cups, in a way that we can get out of the groups."

"WE GOT RID OF THE SHACKLES"

"I do not accept the expression of an unsuccessful management in sporting terms, but I agree with the view that there is a failure in our football branch. If we could have won even 1 championship in football, the value of what else we have done would have been better understood. What we have done in financial terms is obvious. We reduced our debt of 612 million Euros to the level of 307 million Euros. When we took over the club in 2017-18, our team's squad value was 75 million Euros. It is currently 200 million Euros. We currently have no files at CAS. Now the era of Fenerbahçe begins. When our hands were tied financially, our room for maneuver was limited. We got rid of our shackles. We reached an agreement with Mourinho. If we are elected, our transfers will continue."

"THE WINNER IN THE CONGRESS WILL BE FENERBAHÇE"

"Having presidential candidates in the congress is very valuable in terms of creating added value in Fenerbahçe. Even if there is tension and disagreement from time to time during the process, we all believe that the winner will be Fenerbahçe in the end. I and my friends will do our part to ensure that Fenerbahçe's democracy and respect are not harmed, and that it is a general assembly that suits our club and will be an example to other clubs."

News Source: 12punto