Former Turkey international Nihat also reckons that every top club in the country will be chasing Cyriel Dessers
Mohamed Diomande’s Rangers display has earned him a comparison to Zinedine Zidane as blown away Turkish legend and TV pundit Nihat insisted every top club in the country will be chasing Cyriel Dessers.
Jose Mourinho’s Fenerbahce couldn’t live with Barry Ferguson’s Gers in Istanbul, who won 3-1 to give themselves a huge advantage to take into the second leg at Ibrox And former Real Sociedad and 69-times capped ex-Turkey ace Nihat couldn’t praise the performance of Rangers highly enough. He said: “I still can’t believe what we watched. But let’s be honest here – it should have been 5-1 and if Cyriel Dessers’ shoulder wasn’t as muscly, it would have been. Every top club in Turkey should be fighting to sign him. But there were plenty of others.
“Mohamed Diomande was brilliant, like the best of Zinedine Zidane; thank goodness they substituted him. And what an athlete Vaclav Cerny is.
“Honestly, Rangers’ goals were like those from a Playstation game; they were all so simple for them. How can Fenerbahce – a team who restricted Galatasaray to almost no chances at goal last week – give Rangers so many opportunities?
“Jose Mourinho went all-out attack in the second half and treated a team like Rangers like they were playing Rizespor. It was incredible because Fenerbahce were in such good form and then produced that. It was a crazy match and the tie should be over.”
