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Galatasaray has decided to remove Arda Turan of the dynamics of the team due to their state of form. Except for surprise, the Turk will not participate in the round of 16 match that his team plays next week against Barcelona, a club in which he also limited. The first leg will be played on Thursday March 10th (9:00 p.m.) at the Camp Nou and the return leg on Thursday (6:45 p.m.) in Istanbul. According to ‘Sabah Spor’, the media outlet in the Ottoman country, the Galatasaray coach has stopped counting on the footballer due to his low physical condition. In some matches that he has played there is evidence of a clear overweight and Domènec Torrentwho was Guardiola’s assistant at Barcelona or Bayern, has decided to give him a secondary role.
The same information continues assuring that Turan, who is already 35 years old, would be meditating the possibility to withdraw at the end of the season.
Arda Turan’s participation this season is being rather scarce. In fact, the Turk has only played eleven games in all competitions, adding only two starts and 276 minutes accumulated. Torrent’s decision seems firm and according to what has transpired, he has informed the footballer that he will only participate in the trainingdenying him the possibility of playing any game again, unless he has many casualties and must use his services.
Burn Turan was one of the worst signings of Barcelona in recent times. The midfielder signed in the summer of 2015 for 34 million euros plus 7 in variables. At that time, Barcelona tied him up knowing that he would not be able to play until January due to the sanction that the club was carrying and that prevented him from signing as punishment for having hired underage players. Luis Enrique was on the bench and Turan progressively stopped having a leading role in the team. On January 13, 2018, he was loaned for two and a half seasons to Estambul Basaksehir of the Turkish Super League with a sale option in each market period. In January 2020, he asked the Turkish club to rescind his transfer contract, a request that those from Istanbul agreed to, so his license returned to the hands of Barcelona, a club with which he had a contract in force until June 2020. August 5, 2020, his return to the Galatasaraynine years after his departure.
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