If there is one thing Turkish clubs hate, it’s the perception that they are second best to any of their rivals.
When Daily Mail Sport visited the home of one of Turkish football’s biggest executives a few years ago, we learned that the infighting between clubs was ferocious. That will never cool.
So, in June, when the Mohamed Salah stakes began to seriously heat up on the prospect of moving to Turkey, it was Fenerbahce that, insiders at the Istanbul club said, were front of the queue.
‘He was very keen on coming to Turkey. The meetings we had were extremely positive,’ Fenerbahce executive Ertan
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