{"id":340284,"date":"2025-08-13T04:52:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T04:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/340284\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T04:52:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T04:52:17","slug":"besiktas-president-confirms-talks-for-rangers-transfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/340284\/","title":{"rendered":"Besiktas president confirms talks for Rangers transfer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The Turkish left-back moved to Ibrox in 2022 but could now be set for a return to his former club after an injury-hit three years in Glasgow.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Besiktas president Serdal Adal\u0131 said: &#8220;We&#8217;ve spoken with Ridvan Y\u0131lmaz.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Nothing has been finalised.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;We&#8217;re talking to his agent and his club.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n    <strong>Read more:<\/strong>\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n    Yilmaz has often been linked with a move back to Turkey, including to Besiktas as well as Galatasaray.\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n  However, he could be set to leave <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/sport\/rangers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rangers<\/a> on a permanent basis after a lack of game time under new manager Russell Martin.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The left-back has not featured under Martin and has been replaced by new signing Max Aarons.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Aarons, traditionally a right-back, has been favoured on the left in recent matches.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Martin said last week: &#8220;With Ridvan, we\u2019ve had an honest conversation and he\u2019s sizing up his options, there are a couple of clubs interested in him so we\u2019ll wait and see what happens.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Besiktas are now in talks with Yilmaz and his representatives about a permanent switch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Turkish left-back moved to Ibrox in 2022 but could now be set for a return to his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-340284","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-glasgow","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115019667404816852","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}