Amartey - Besiktas

[Langley]

Ghanaian defender, Daniel Amartey has completed his transfer to Turkish club Besiktas. 

The experienced centre-back signed a two-year contract with the option of an additional year with the Turkish giants. 

The move comes after Amartey ended his seven-year stint with Premier League club Leicester City.

Amartey enjoyed a remarkable start at Leicester, winning the league title in his debut season and playing a significant role in the club's FA Cup triumph in 2021 against Chelsea. 

The 28-year-old was linked with a potential move to Celtic, with speculations fueled by his previous association with Brendan Rodgers, his former coach at Leicester City who is now in charge at Celtic.

Amartey joined Besiktas as a free agent, bringing his wealth of experience and defensive prowess to the Turkish club. 

Besiktas will be hoping that his contributions will propel them to success in domestic and international competitions.

Amartey follows in the footsteps of his fellow Ghanaian compatriot Alexander Djiku, who recently made a move to another Turkish club, Fenerbahce.

 

 

 

“defensive prowess”

Edited 14 July 2023 by Langley

[Old Fox]

Good luck to him…..a really good honest pro who gave his all.

 

he was never good enough to play the games he did at centre half in a footballing from the back team but only BR knew why he played him and the insisted that he started nearly all build from the back moves when he could not pass a ball 5 yards !

 

 

[Koke]

7 and a half years of nothingness from a nothing player. 

[South Shire Fox]

The most Turkish league signing in history 😂. Ndidi will be the next

[Tuna]

Wish him well, but largely he was poor for us.

[davieG]

 

[foxes_rule1978]

Wish him the best

[James_lcfc]

Seems a nice guy and always gave his all - Good luck Dan.

 

Awful footballer though.

[Claudio Fannieri]

Always gave 100% and seemed a very good pro  not his fault that Rodgers decided he should be a starting centre half. 
 

good luck Dan 

[davieG]

I liked him, wasn't world class but then neither are any of our players. Gave 100%

 

Was never going to sign for Chelsea,

 

 

 

 

[Sly]

If only he’d left 12 months ago ….. 

[Ryy]

🏆🏆🏆

[davieG]

Just now, Sly said:

If only he’d left 12 months ago ….. 

We'd have still gone down the team was awash with mistakes and broken.

[Sol thewall Bamba]

19 minutes ago, davieG said:

 

#YELLOW

[Paninistickers]

5 minutes ago, davieG said:

We'd have still gone down the team was awash with mistakes and broken.

All but 6 or 7 teams would've been relegated if they'd played Ward 26 times. Big Dan was in no way more or less culpable than the other outfield players. 

 

Committed defender. An occasional collosal performance. Always physically Fit and ready despite long spells unused. He had a a decent, delayed brave pass into midfield in him, usually inside the wide presser. His clangers were usually cruelly punished. 

 

A decent squad guy in a team going well. Good Luck Dan and enjoy those medals.

 

 

[Raj]

He was sh1t

[kingfox]

Hopefully he doesn’t go throwing any Fenerbahce pennants about, otherwise he’ll be getting killed.

[Patrick]

Here was his response to us going down. Deserves absolutely no goodwill from us. 

 

 

[Sampson]

Kind of an arbitrary reason but so glad he went this summer, just because I didn’t want him to be the last man standing from the title winning season, just wouldn’t have felt right over one of the starting XI.
 

So glad Vardy and Albrighton outlasted him. 

[Wymsey]

Thought he was just 'steady' pretty much and hardly anything more.

[CrispinLA in Texas]

He just as crap defensively in the movies... against Van Damme in Bloodsport 

[Spiritwalker]

Good luck Dan, I’ll never forget that no look pass against Blackburn in the cup, and how you

followed it up with a replica no look pass in the next league game for those who’d missed

the cup game.

[Buzzell]

I knew them Milan rumours were bullshit!

Edited 14 July 2023 by Buzzell

[Bergen fox]

28 I call bull on that. Looks to be mid 30s easily 

[bovril]

Honestly it does bug me on some level seeing players who helped relegate us signing for top division teams in European competitions.