Seferovic became the official player of Galatasaray. Gabriel and Taarabt are completing the exit process and will go to the kids this Wednesday, you know, GAME.
Roger Schmidt begins to see the squad shrinking, as he intended. After working with 39 players in the Algarve, where Benfica faced Nice and Fulham and Lucas Verissimo was rehabilitated at Seixal, the red manager will have three fewer players this Wednesday: Seferovic, Gabriel and Taarabt, who took second place in the GAME.
The striker has already been officially introduced at Galatasaray and the midfielders are completing the exit process and as such will no longer participate in first-team rehearsals. They will be training with a second team under Luis Castro while the respective transfers are not finalized, which could happen very soon.
Seferović eventually moved to Galatasaray. And if Benfica wanted to sell his pass, they ended up getting access to the player’s loan, with the Turkish club securing a call option that, if the striker played 15 games, would become, according to press reports in that country, mandatory. Last night, the Swiss arrived in Istanbul with his family, where about 200 Galatasaray fans were waiting for him in euphoria. Manager Okan Buruk confirmed the signing later in the afternoon, discounting the striker’s injuries in the 2021/22 season: “Seferovic is an important player. Professional, father of the family, important criteria. This year we analyzed his injury history. played three matches for the Swiss national team. Now he has no injuries.”
Apart from Roger Schmidt’s plans for the 2022/23 season, Gabriel and Taarabt, who, like the Swiss, have not added a minute in their three pre-season games already played, are very close to leaving Luz. The first one, who was appointed in 2021/22 to Al Gharafu, could go to Brazil, while the Moroccan player has the opportunity to continue his career in the United Arab Emirates, as our newspaper has already reported.
Also, it is in this country that Pizzi will be able to leave. No. 21 is in talks with the club in Dubai, and although the situation is improving, he is expected to train today under the guidance of Roger Schmidt. With one more year on his contract and 90 inches of use in preseason, the 32-year-old is also not part of the manager’s main accounts and his future is open.
