Search for a New Head Coach at Fenerbahçe: Montella Leads the List

After the defeat to Galatasaray, Fenerbahçe parted ways with İsmail Kartal. Attention has now turned to choosing a new head coach.

The selection will be carried out jointly by club president Aziz Yıldırım and Cihan Kamer. Yıldırım has given Kamer full authority to hold talks with candidate coaches. The management's priority is a foreign coach. The first name was Vincenzo Montella, who recently left his post with the A National Football Team, and contact has been made with the Italian coach. Antonio Conte is also among the names to be discussed.

A section of the management, however, favors a domestic coach. It has been learned that Cihan Kamer met with Abdullah Avcı. Emre Belözoğlu, currently in charge of Kasımpaşa, is also among the names the club is seriously interested in. Aykut Kocaman, who had reached an agreement at the start of the season but was later dropped, is being talked about again. Volkan Demirel has also emerged, saying, "I am a candidate for the job."

The new head coach will be announced before next week's match against Liverpool at Kadıköy. Assistant coach Dirk Kuyt will be in charge of the team for this weekend's match against Göztepe.

The club's recent record is also striking. Since 2017, Fenerbahçe has parted ways with 11 head coaches, 3 of them during İsmail Kartal's tenure, and has made 7 interim coaching decisions. Dirk Kuyt will be the 8th name in this process. Over the last 10 seasons, the team has gone 346 days and 38 matches without a head coach.