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Tigana's Irregular Prince

Date: 31-12-2005
Wrote: EP's reporter in Istanbul Ali AVCI

There are two important articles about Hassan in Turkish papers, Sabah and Fanatik. EgyptianPlayers.com presents the special translations of the articles.

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Jean Tigana

Sabah claimed that Jean Tigana regards Ahmed Hassan as the key player:

Besiktas French manager Jean Tigana gave a mid-season report to the board. His words about Ahmed Hassan were important for the player. "Hassan is a hardworking player who is quick and talented. His only problem is not liking the team play. He wants to be free on the pitch. He is my irregular prince as he doesn't play in the team-system."

Ahmed Hassan is also a favourite player from the board's perspective. The board doesn't pay fees regularly because of the poor situation and Ahmed Hassan doesn't make a problem like the other foreigners and wants to take his money with all the team. Finally a board member told Sabah about Hassan, "He has ten clubs' interest. He can play anywhere but his choice is Besiktas."

And the Fanatik newspaper, the sports daily, searched the changing plans of the team and wrote Tigana's report about the foreigners:

Ahmed Hassan: He is not a typical player who can play in our system. He wants to play free when he can find a large area. He has quality but he doesn't give extra strength to the team. He'll be away from us because of the African Cup. We need him at the start but he'll be in tournament. If things continues as it is Hassan will miss the start.


Ailton: He lives in his past. Ailton does not belong to the team. He promised me to be as he was in his Germany career but he continued poorly and was sent off again in the Sivas match. He talks different and does different. Ailton can't be useful to us.

Youla: He is a quick forward. I don't know what he did before me but I can say he lost his self-confidence. He said he is not happy. He had to be successful to be happy but he couldn't.

Pancu: I can't say we can work with him in healthy conditions. At the start, I though of him as a defensive midfielder but he has an attacking mentality and had a concentration problem. We couldn't open a place to Pancu at the front as he didn't force us into that.

EP will continue to give the latest news about Hassan and Besiktas...