Fatih Tekke: The 3 points were what mattered

Trabzonspor manager Fatih Tekke, whose team started the season with a victory by defeating Kocaelispor 1-0 at home in the first week of the Trendyol Super Lig, said, "The 3 points were very valuable and precious for us. The points were much more important than the performance.

We have to continue like this for a while. We gave the opponent only one opportunity, and that is where Uğurcan Çakır stepped in. Our pressure dropped. Because some players were not ready, we conceded positions and could have lost points.

We especially need to avoid making mistakes on throw-ins. We have time ahead of us. We have players coming in and names returning from injury. The important thing was to start the league with 3 points," he said.

Stating that they need to proceed match by match, Tekke added, "There was a good performance in the first half, but I cannot say the same for the second half. The important thing was the 3 points. Do we have mistakes? Yes, we do. Olaigbe has only trained with us 3 times. We need to play our high-pressure game and increase our speed. Today, our only goal was the 3 points, and we achieved that," he spoke.

Touching on transfer efforts, Tekke said, "The transfer market is very complicated right now. A player worth 1 lira is asking for 10-15 liras. We are getting what we can. We pursued much better players that we wanted to add, but the processes did not develop as we wished. We cannot pay those amounts," he expressed.