After winning this weekend’s league game, Solskjaer and Besiktas are eight points clear of third place. Solskjaer has said he will break the curse of foreign coaches in the Süper Lig and lead Besiktas to the top, but this season the goal is to fight his way to third place. In the winter transfer window, there has been little money for reinforcements, this week two young, highly motivated players arrived who take it as an honour to play for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.
On Deadline Day, the Süper Lig club signed 20-year-old Colombian Elan Ricardo as a Besiktas player, a few days earlier an 18-year-old winger from Ecuador signed for Besiktas.
Keny Arroyo is one of the first pieces Solskjaer will put in place in the build-up of a Besiktas title contender again. The teenager comes from Ecuadorian Independent, where he already has 52 senior games with 5 goals and 8 assists.
This is the first trip to Europe, Solskjaer was one of the factors that made the winger talent choose Besiktas.
– I had offers from many clubs, but I wanted to play for Besiktas. I’ve had a dream of playing in Europe since I was a child. Everyone knows who our coach is. He has coached a big team like Manchester United. It will be a privilege to work with a coach like that. I will benefit greatly from it,” Arroyo told the club’s TV channel.
