After signing Portuguese superstar Quaresma, Bernd Schuster is the official manager of Beşiktaş JK after the German manager signed for the club in front of the press at the Ümraniye Nevzat Demir training ground.
Bernd Schuster signs the papers that officially makes him the manager of Besiktas.
Turkish giants Beşiktaş, had recently parted their ways with Turkish manager Mustafa Denizli under grounds of health problems which the 60-year-old was suffering from.
However many news sources had alleged that rather than health problems, the successful Turkish manager had been angered by Beşiktaş not paying the players their money and due to this, his relations deteriorated with chairman Yıldırım Demirören.
During the press conference at the beginning of the month where Mustafa Denizli announced his departure from Beşiktaş, Demirören had announced that the transfer board was having talks with 6 different managers in which one was Schuster.
However Demirören had blasted the Turkish press and media earlier in the month when news of Schuster, already signing with Beşiktaş emerged saying, the people who write this nonsense are fraudulent liars.
After the official papers were signed, Schuster then went on to answer questions by the Turkish press.
Schuster expressed his excitement in being at Beşiktaş and also spoke of how overwhelmed he was when Beşiktaş fans had gone to the airport for the German manager’s arrival.
Schuster said “I am very happy for being here. I am very happy and excited, so much so that I want to do training today, but due to the circumstances I need to wait a few weeks more.”
Schuster was also asked the controversial question of the “date Beşiktaş representatives had first made contact” with him in which the former Real Madrid manager said “we met last week for the first time, and from the day we met, we were in strong dialogs. We have started a strong partnership regarding the players, the performance and our goals for the season.”
Schuster also expressed his delight of Portuguese winger Quaresma transferring to Beşiktaş saying he was “delighted that Quaresma is part of Beşiktaş” as he is a very talented player.
It was very interesting that Schuster stated the date which he met with Beşiktaş representatives but did not state the date when he heard of any interest by Beşiktaş.
