{"id":81240,"date":"2026-01-26T16:52:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T13:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=81240"},"modified":"2026-01-26T16:52:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T13:52:15","slug":"besiktas-transfer-john-vik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/besiktas-transfer-john-vik\/","title":{"rendered":"Be\u015fikta\u015f&#8217;s transfer gourmet (!) signed Rosenborg"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>John Vik, one of the names that ruined Be\u015fikta\u015f!<\/h2>\n<p>John Vik, who left his position at <a title=\"Gianni Infantino FIFA\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/infantino-hasan-arat-besiktas-transfers-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Be\u015fikta\u015f<\/a> last November, has become the new Head Scout and Transfer Manager at Rosenborg.<\/p>\n<p>Vik, who has worked as a scout and head scout for Manchester United and Molde, became <a title=\"Be\u015fikta\u015f John Vik\" href=\"https:\/\/www.besiktaspostasi.com\/besiktas-john-vik-transfer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Be\u015fikta\u015f<\/a>&#8216;s Scout for Nordic Countries and North America last January.<\/p>\n<p>Known in his country as the man who discovered Erling Haaland, who currently plays for Manchester City, Vik was heavily criticized for the amounts paid to Elan Ricardo and Keny Arroyo, whom he recommended to Be\u015fikta\u015f, and for their lack of effectiveness.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that Vik, despite being the Head of Nordic Countries, couldn&#8217;t find a single player from Norway, Denmark, and Sweden (!) has drawn attention to him.<\/p>\n<p>Within the club, voices rose against Vik, questioning, &#8220;How can the man who discovered Erling Haaland not find a single player from Norway?&#8221; Then-manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer also received his share of criticism.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, it was alleged that the Norwegian football executive had a power struggle with Eduard Graf, who was considered the most authoritative figure in transfers at Black Eagle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Vik, one of the names that ruined Be\u015fikta\u015f! John Vik, who left his position at Be\u015fikta\u015f last November, has become the new Head Scout and Transfer Manager at Rosenborg. Vik, who has worked as a scout and head scout for Manchester United and Molde, became Be\u015fikta\u015f&#8216;s Scout for Nordic Countries and North America last &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9192200,"featured_media":81241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,127,171,1633],"tags":[1700,2063,80405,80403,79130,80404,4313,3148,12429,9001,1496,77182,1708],"class_list":["post-81240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","category-sport","category-turkey","category-turkey-sport","tag-besiktas","tag-denmark","tag-eduard-graf","tag-elan-ricardo","tag-erling-haaland","tag-keny-arroyo","tag-manchester-city","tag-norway","tag-ole-gunnar-solskjaer","tag-sweden","tag-transfers","tag-turkey","tag-turkish-super-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9192200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81242,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81240\/revisions\/81242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}