Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is once again on the lookout. After just under eight months as Besiktas coach, the “Eagle of the North” was fired at the end of August. Sergen Yalçın was brought in, this time they were not going to have a foreigner, no. After 17 games in the season, the situation is no different than it was when Solskjaer started. A good combination of a little too few wins, a little too many draws and the same with losses, is Besiktas down to 5th place in the Süper Lig. For Rafa Silva, a key player under Solskjaer, the change of coach has created a dramatic change.
Silva went on to score 8 goals and 6 assists in the Süper Lig from January, with Solskjaer as coach last season. Now the Besiktas coach is singling out the same player for being incompetent.
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On Saturday, Rafa Silva was back in the matchday squad after several weeks in the stands, but there was no playing time for the Portuguese. The Besiktas coach gives a tough criticism of his own player.
“I don’t want to talk too much about Rafa, but the same topic keeps coming up, and I have to bring it up. Do you think he will participate in training? He trains to fulfill his contract. If I were to give him a score from zero to ten for his training, it would be zero! It would be reckless to put him in a fight with his current form. That is out of the question. There is nothing we can do. I don’t know if he will stay here. He’s the most expensive player on the team, but he won’t help me, what can I do? If he trains like a footballer, we open the door again. In the current situation, it is not possible to keep the door open for Rafa,” Yalçin said, according to A Bola.
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Little doubt last season’s second highest scoring player misses Solskjaer’s coaching.
