Besiktas president questions why Shinji Kagawa did not start in Istanbul derby

Besiktas president Fikret Orman was amazed to see that Shinji Kagawa was not in the starting eleven in the match against Galatasaray, Turkish sports paper Fanatik reported on 7 May.

He questioned manager Senol Gunes’ decision, “Kagawa, Quaresma, Adriano… why were they on the bench? I can’t do anything because I’m not the manager, but when you have such good players, shouldn’t you start them? Is there a need to search for new discoveries now? Are you going to discover the new Americas too?”

Galatasaray won the derby 2 – 0 and climbed to the top of the Super Lig. Yuto Nagatomo played the full match, while Kagawa came on in the 75th minute.

Besiktas will hold an annual general meeting on 12 May. At the same time, a new manager for the coming season will need to be decided at the earliest opportunity (Gunes will depart the club at the end of the season for the Turkish national team).

It is said that Romanian Mircea Lucescu is the front-runner for the job.

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Source: Yahoo

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