Defending Champions Besiktas announced the appointment of 46-year-old French coach Ismail as the new manager of the team, the former Bayern's coaching career has spread throughout the Bundesliga, The Greek Super League, the Austrian First Division, the Championship and the Turkish Super League, helping the defending champions qualify for next season's European competition should be his basic goal. The most surprising thing is the frequency of coaching changes in the Turkish Super League, with a total of 15 teams changing coaches this season.
Ismail was given a contract until the end of next season, after which the club could renew it for another year on a priority basis. Besiktas has a poor record this season, in early December last year, because it fell all the way to 9th in the table, the meritorious coach Yarsin who led the team to the championship last season voluntarily resigned, and assistant coach Caravelli served as interim manager, but Besiktas's record did not improve, just climbed to 8th in the table, so the club chose to hire Ismail to take over.
Besiktas scored 46 points in the first 30 rounds of the Turkish Super League, temporarily ranking 8th in the table, as many as 9 points behind the Champions League region, it is almost impossible to catch up, but they are only 3 points away from fourth-place Alanya Sport, and there is still great hope of joining next season's European competitions, of course, it depends on whether Ismail can quickly complete the run-in with the players.
Besiktas has a number of Turkish internationals in the squad, as well as Croatian defender Vida, Barca borrowed Pjanic, Canadian demon star Larin, French winger Nkudu, Belgium international Batshuayi and other strong reinforcements, Chinese Super League fans are more familiar with Teixeira also played for the team, but Teixeira has not had many opportunities this season, only played in 19 games in the Turkish Super League, contributed 4 goals and 1 assist, perhaps Ismail's arrival is his chance to regain his main position.
Ismail played as a centre-back in Ligue 1, Premier League and Bundesliga, 13 premier league games, 113 bundesliga games, 203 ligue 1 games, with Werder Bremen and Bayern won three Bundesliga titles, and won two German Cups. After retiring in 2009, he remained in Hannover 96 as an assistant coach and also coached the second team of the team, and in July 2014, he began his managerial career, leading Nuremberg to the Bundesliga, but was fired in only four months. Since then, he has taken Wolfsburg, Apollon of the Greek Super League, Linz of the Austrian League, Barnsley and West Brom in the Championship, and in February this year, he accepted the proposal of negotiated termination because of his poor performance, saying goodbye to West Brom.
Besiktas has completed the change of coach, this season the Turkish Super League has as many as 15 teams to change coaches, of the 20 teams, only Trabzon Sports, Konya Sports, Hathai Sports, Sivas Sports and GhazAntep have not changed managers, it is really the craziest league in European football.