Turkish midfielder Arda Turan, after ending his contract with the FC Barcelona and be free, is back in the GalatasarayNine years after leaving the Turkish team, the iconic Istanbul club announced on Wednesday.
The Turkish international, international on 100 occasions with the absolute selection of Turkey, would have signed for a season plus an optional second, according to local media.
Turan, 33, played 191 games (44 goals) between 2005 and 2011 with Galatasaray, before joining the Atlético de Madrid, with whom he played 178 matches in all competitions (22 goals) and with whom he conquered the Europa League in 2012, in addition to reaching the final of the Champions League in 2014, he lost to Real Madrid.
In 2015 he landed with a crack vitola in the Barca, in a transfer in which the azulgrana paid 35 million euros, but he could not succeed after playing 55 official matches (15 goals and 11 assists). Subsequently he was loaned a year and a half in the Basaksehir from Istanbul.
In recent years, Arda Turan It has been mainly noted for controversial. In May 2018 he received a extremely harsh and historic sanction after being suspended for 16 games for first pushing a line judge and then insult and threaten the referee after being sent off during an Istanbul Basaksehir-Sivasspor.
Last year was sentenced to almost three years in prison He fired a pistol inside a hospital to cause panic and was charged with that, illegal possession of weapons, and willfully causing injury during an episode in a discotheque, where he had fought with him Turkish singer Berkay Sahinen at the end of 2018.
Arda ran into the artist's wife, the latter reproached him and the ex-Barça player responded with a blow that broke his nose. Sahinen went to the hospital and that's when Arda took out the gun and fired. His club financially sanctioned him with a 400,000 euro fine.