After going through a tumultuous season financially, Besiktas was hoping that Slaven Bilic would carry them to the promise land in the 2014/2015 season. Unfortunately, 3rd place was not good enough for management, and it looks like Slaven Bilic will be parting ways with the team after his contract ends on May 30th. After losing 7 points in their past 3 weeks against lesser opponents, Bilic took full responsibility for the team’s downfall which led us to this point. Instead of letting him go immediately, Besiktas saves $500,000 by foregoing the coach’s early departure and Bilic has one final chance of redemption in the upcoming derby against Galatassary on May 24th.
Bilic has been coaching Besiktas since June 2013, but has not been able to get past Galatassary or Fenerbahce for the coveted 1 and 2 spots. Aside from the lack of performance, the Turkish league is now under investigation for a majority of games being fixed. It makes you wonder if Bilic’s leadership was to blame, or if there was something else going on behind closed doors, especially with such poor results to lower level teams in the past 3 weeks.
With Bilic leaving Turkey, this opens the door to a whole plethora of possibilities for the future of his career. While pushing the Vatreni to new heights in his Euro campaigns, Bilic was getting a lot of attention from the Premier League and German League clubs. With his lack of coaching experience, Bilic made the smart move and went to a lesser league to gain experience and probably a little more money. Now, with 2 years of experience in a tumultuous league, I think we see him make the move to a lower level premier team.
Which teams?
West Ham United: According to the odds makers in London, Bilic is only behind Rafa Benitez as the next coach of his former club West Ham. With a fresh new slate, Bilic could come in and make some serious waves at West Ham, who have not moved from the middle of the Premier League table in the last 3 years.
Liverpool: Another, more farfetched plan, is a move to Liverpool. . The Merseyside squad have been looking to pick up Mateo Kovacic for some time now. With Steven Gerrard leaving, the time is right for the team to make a move to strengthen their midfield. Since losing Suarez, Liverpool have looked anemic and their fans are looking for a positive change after losing their captain this season.
Where do you think Slaven ends up next?
@vatrena cast………depression=crazy. Depressed people do crazy things.
http://www.tribalfootball.com/articles/elche-loanee-pasalic-pen-new-chelsea-contract-4078423#.VV75yWA-BE4
Since when does depression count as crazy?
I’ve heard Josko Balaban is better than Bosko..
@Crippler:
Thanks for the link
@Ziva:
Maybe his name is Terry.
Srna has decreased his flopping a great deal.
Srna would lose as a result of flopping.
Srna would break that big honker…
Even better question…if they we were allowed to go at it, who would win? Srna or Kalinic. Srna was down to scrap and had that look in his eyes.
oh yeah, how could I forget…….The Kovac brothers and Tudor wanted to kill each other in Germany 06. Then again, Tudor was always an a-hole. Typical Splican.
No, not like that. Simunic and Krizanac got into it (but that was more overblown than anything).
I think the mistake many fans make is they believe players all get along on teams or the national team. And that is not the case. There are clicks, just like at work and daily life there are clicks. No different with the repka.
Suspension Joey was a guy who was not well liked by everyone. Some of the younger guys viewed him as being too political and they didn’t care for him when discussing politics.
Go back to the 96 and 98 teams. They were filled with guys who hated Suker and Stimac. We had results, so that covered up everything and it is easy to get along when you have results on the field. But, Suker was hated by many of his teammates. If you know any of the former national team players, ask them what they think of Suker. I’m willing to bet a large amount of money they dont have nice things to say about him outside of his ability to score goals.
I am but did they ever go at it like that on the field?
Mamic and Ivo Bego?
just kidding!
are you guys forgetting how great friends the Kovac brothers and Igor Tudor were?
Besides this, can you guys remember any two of our guys going at it like that? There was venom there.
…ooops…Bosko!!!
hahaha…
Kalinic?
I’d rather we call back Josko Balaban!
Now I want Kalinic called up to the repka. There have been players in the past who didn’t really like each other on the repka, but outside of a minor incident on a bus years ago, I don’t ever recall somehting major. Maybe I am missing something or someone.
Nakon posljednjeg sučevog zvižduka Kalinić se okrenuo prema Srni i nešto mu dobacio. I tu je počelo. Srna je potpuno izgubio živce, a jedan od Šahtarovih trenera držao ga je kako ne bi došao bliže Kaliniću. Napadač Dnjipra pozivao je Srnu da slobodno dođe malo bliže, dok je kapetan Srna svom suigraču u reprezentaciji nekoliko puta gestikulirao da je nula od igrača.
from 24 sata…
Those were tears of fear!
I know we joke about jocksniffing, but I discuss it because I really do worry about some of you.
I was walking outside of the confiments of the fortified basement a few days ago. So, as I was driving to the local community center to lead a bible study group, I noticed a father and son walking. I had to stop and gawk because I noticed the father had on a Chelsea jersey with the name “Terry” on the back. I shook my head in disgust. Here, we had a father wearing the name of another person on his back. He is basically teaching his own son to forgoe his own last name and worship and adore a person he has never met.
Look at this way…….for those of you who have a son or daughter, lets say that son/daughter came home from school one day and had a generic tshirt on with the last name of her friend on the back. That is basically throwing your own name in the mud and choosing to wear another person’s name.
That is the same thing when a grown adult wears the last name of another person on their back. They are basically saying I am ashmaed of my own last name that I will walk around with the last name of a person I dont even know. Pathetic, right? So, to the jocksniffing crowd, be careful because your children might just imitate what you do and say the same thing, “the hell with my own name.”
Svircic….that’s gross…and she’s definitely got mental issues!
Where does this rank on the jocksniffing scale.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvLiA9SkSAY
@anonymous………..you wrote “Where I’m from, people killed and died for Freedom of Speech, you better watch your fucking mouth boy.”
So, I guess it is safe to say you are not from Bjezigrad…..people only ran from that city.
moron?????????? Me???????????? HAAAAAAA???????
You have the power to say whatever you want, but there could be consequences in what you say. We saw that with Suspension Joey. He said something that not everyone agress with, especially the liberal crowd. Suspension Joey has the right to yell “za dom….spremni”, but FIFA has the right to say, “nah, we don’t like what you said. Many think it is offensive.” Now, I, Ziva Istina, disagree with that. But, people within Cro government, the football federation and FIFA think otherwise.
So, their are potential consequences for your actions. I don’t know why that is hard for you to understand. You have every right to go infront of a crowd and yell and shout whatever you want, but you do take a risk in happens next.
Listen, I am sure you are a good guy and in a few years you will graduate from school and see the real world. I appreciate your spunk. Now, having said that, I am sure the fine folks who frequent this site don’t wish to keep reading posts on this topic (or maybe the do). So, may I suggest we take this to social media. If you so desire, we can engage on twitter. My twitter handle is @ziva_istina. I’ve yet to fully embrace twitter, but we can go that route.
“Picko nula si od igraca”
I thought I saw him say “picko”…I’m sure I saw him make the “zero” hand gesture but wasn’t sure he meant “nula” kao covjek ili igraca!?
@”ziva istina”, You & Denis are one in the same, both of your reading COMPREHENSION skills are abysmal and both of you talk out of both sides of your mouths. No wonder why Denis ALWAYS defends you.
Where I’m from, people killed and died for Freedom of Speech, you better watch your fucking mouth boy.
Ziva Istina said: “We are all free to say whatever we want, but you face consequnces for saying something that not everyone agrees upon.”
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What did I tell you all? I told you this moron says that he’s “for freedom of speech” while justifying the suppression of it at the same time. And he goes ahead and proves it AGAIN – for me.
@Ziva ‘Moron’ Istina, the very point of Freedom of Speech is being able to say what not everyone agrees with; if you can only say what everyone agrees with or otherwise “FACE THE CONSEQUENCES”, then you don’t have Freedom of Speech!
How many times must I tell you this coward before it sinks into your walnut sized brain?
Picko nula si od igraca
I take Srna’s side on this even though I’m not 100% sure of what happened. It looks like Kalinic was disrespectful and Srna is letting him have it, even using the hand sign for “you’re a zero”…
Anyone see the dust up between Srna and Kalinic during a league game? I wonder what was said as in the video looks like Kalinic started it. Heres link it starts at 159 in the video.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GO1itQ7ihJI
*Maksimirska 128
Circus is the perfect term for what’s happening at Maksimir 128
I think I read that some players participated in handing out those tickets as well …Coric was one of them…
kinda reminds me of when I was a kid and the circus came to town…they came to the schools to hand out free tickets…
Over 10,000 free tickets to local schools and kafici. Dinamos marketing at its finest.
Got to love Mamic and his antics and comments……after yesterday’s game
“Ponosan sam jer se publika vratila u Maksimir”
More than a half empty stadum and a majority who showed up yesterday and over the weekend did so with free tickets.
@jm…….not sure I can. I one healthy season after so many non healthy season is hardly a reason to drop it.
Either way congrats to Golden State, they are going to win the NBA. They are the only healthy team left in the finals.
who cares where Bilic ends, he will once disappoint like he did in Russia and Turkey, over rated coach at least he made excellent money in the process so good for him.
congrats to bogut!
2nd team all defense (although he lead the league in real plus/minus defense)
and on top of that, he just earned himself a nice 1.9 million dollar bonus with a contract stipulation that says he gets it if he played in at least 65 games and made first or second team all defense
@ ziva
time to drop the glass doll moniker?
the excuses some of you make……
how about earning playing time? and what has taken place since……
Pletikosa is the middle of Russia with a crazy wife
Kranjcar bouncing around
Corluka in Russia
and Spurs treated Modric so bad that he had to go to small club called Real Madrid. Yeah, really screwed “our guys”.
Faux Cro is pretty spot on with those analysis.
Sam Allardyce is the poor man’s Jose Mourinho.
Plays an awful style of football with relatively small budgets.
Kranjcar:
Signed to fill an injured Luka Modric’s spot. Fit it well, scored a bunch of goals, then replaced by Van Der Vaart. Who is just as lazy and defensively challenged. But can only use one foot.
Corluka:
Was never fast. Always defensively solid and distributed ball well. Replaced by a fast Englishman who lacked in those two areas.
Pletikosa:
Never had a shot to play anything but utter shit minutes.
Spurs got Kranjcar depressed and made him eat all the dessert, took Corluka’s speed away and made him become a centerback, and made Modric a lot of money.
Jerks.
Not going to beat that dead horse with you again… besides, here is Sweet Brown’s take on feeding da troll:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGxwbhkDjZM
How did Spurs screw “our” boys?
Slaven will land on his feet and I wish him well at his next gig. As for not being able to attract talent, I think he could pull in some Cro reinforcements at the very least and we all know Hrvati can ball 🙂
Spurs suck and they screwed our boys:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3089098/Tottenham-ruined-players-not-recommend-signs-says-former-keeper-Heurelho-Gomes.html
Now he doesn’t have to keep that bushy beard.
He should go where he is offered the most gaurenteed money. Coaches are hired to get fired. Outside of the elite coaches, amost of them are replaceable.
He will go to LAFC
I think Bilic will go to Hajduk.
bilic will go to borrussia dortmoud
heard it hear first.
Bilić would actually be better off at Liverpool.
Expectations are low at Liverpool and the team actually does have talent (and management is willing to spend).
West Ham will come with expectations, and Allardyce got that team as high as it can be. They won’t attract any high calibre players, so Bilić would have to somehow takes this team even higher without the additional talent.
West Ham would be a good destination for him only if that ownership group and fans realize that the squad they have is mid table. Big Sam has pushed West Ham to his limits and honestly it’s unfair he wouldn’t have his contract extended.