Debt and Management Statements from İlker Alkun at the Fenerbahçe Financial General Assembly

Fenerbahçe Sports Club Ordinary Financial General Assembly Meeting is held at Ülker Sports and Event Hall. At the meeting, after Fenerbahçe President Aziz Yıldırım criticized Sadettin Saran's management, former board member İlker Alkun came to the podium and made a statement.

Emphasizing that they were burdened with debt when they took office, Alkun said, "Our president came here and the management, which served for 9 months, is being perceived as if the management before us had no responsibility, as if there was no responsibility for the debt taken from 31 million euros during the 20 years he managed Fenerbahçe to reach 612 million euros. As if none of them had responsibility for this 20-year period, as if the management before us had no responsibility. Sadettin Saran and his team said, 'Shoot. The perception is 'Let's destroy this, let's all be acquitted'. In the previous period, there was a debt of 612 million euros. The debt is still the same. You will come out and say 'This friend of yours has lost this money', we came to power by cutting off the livelihood of our family and children. We came and won against Ali Koç while you collected 9 thousand signatures. You are confusing some facts. The installments of players whose names we do not know were put before us. The interest burden left to us in 2 years was 79 million euros. We said that we should get rid of this interest burden immediately. We could not have closed the interest burden after 25 years, but is Sadettin Saran and his management responsible for the interest burden that has increased over the next 25 years?

"Do not try to blame the last 27 years for a government that has been in office for 2 years."

Responding to the allegations, Alkun said, "You had Fenerbahçe's revenues deducted and assigned. You say 'You spent, you ate'. This is not the first time this has been done in Fenerbahçe Sports Club. It has been done many times in past administrations. Mr. Aziz and his management did serious mathematics and used it, and we did the same. 4 billion lira of debt burden was paid off to the banks with Fenerbahçe's own revenues in the last 27 years. Today, there is perhaps 750. milyon euro borç var. Başkan '690 milyon euro para harcadınız' diyor. Böyle bir para hareketi yok. Önemli kararların alınacağı bir kongredeyiz. Kante'yle ilgili bize yetki verilmişti. Ertan Torunoğulları, Kante'yi satmak için gerekeni yaptı, Oğuz Çetin bir kez telefona çıkmadı. Bugün siz Kante'yi satamazsınız. 8 aylık dönemde pozisyon aldık. Devre arasında 4 transferimiz var. Bu süreçte harcanan paralar ortada. Bugün ben ve yönetim kurulu üyesi arkadaşlarımız, Aziz "We will always be with Yıldırım and his management. Should we pay the debt or start the league with the team we did not transfer? We came here for 2 years, but we could not complete our term. We did not come here to fight, we did not manage for 27 years. We are with this administration in all the right organizations. Do not try to blame the last 27 years for a management that has been in office for 2 years."