News: Galatasaray, Mjällby AIF, TSV Hartberg

Fabrizio Romano is once again taking us under artillery fire. Every day he fires off news about impending or already completed transfers. And Galatasaray Istanbul has his fingers in roughly every other report. Yesterday, Romano announced the deal with Victor Osimhen. He is expected to cost Gala €75 million, making it the most expensive transfer in Süper Lig history. Leroy Sané is already on the payroll with an annual salary of €15 million. Ederson, Ilkay Gündogan, and Hakan Çalhanoğlu are still expected to be added to that. The only question is: where the hell is all this money coming from? Well, parts of the answer would unsettle the population. Because this splurge is a high-risk business. To finance it, the Istanbul club want to sell off their training ground for half a billion euros. The problem: There's no buyer yet. So the club is trading eggs in their eggshells. The calculation is rather vague: If the laying hens don't deliver as hoped, the plan will collapse, and the club could slide toward insolvency. But the serial champions are already familiar with this: Only in 2020, the Turkish Banking Association (TBB) had to intervene and avert insolvency.