Ziya Eren - teşekkürler hoşça kalın

Thank you, Thad, for starting this important thread. I'm grateful too for the way in which our club has been looked after in these last couple of years, through very difficult times.

Thanks to Mr Eren for providing the club with stability and most importantly a healthy cash injection over the years particularly during the last 2 years of an impending worldwide economic crash, for him to stay with us during that time and keep the club afloat is admirable and we as fans should be grateful for that. I don’t blame Mr Eren for wanting to cut his losses, quite literally probably, and sell up. I just hope he has left us in good hands for his final parting gift and some sort of due diligence was done before selling the club.

Hats off to him 👍👍👍👍

I've seen a suggestion on Twitter about giving them a round of applause at the next home game, what do you all think?

I’ve never hid my admiration for the achievements of Eren and his various lieutenants, particularly Erdem who is a total gent.

I think people tend to forget the extremely low ebb after relegation from League 1, the HKPaul era was effectively over and our first season back in League 2 was incredibly turgid and it’s the only time in the past 14 years I ever thought about chucking the season ticket. But after that we had an array of interesting choices as managers, all committed to playing better football and while none could possess the magic alchemy of turning water into wine with the budget we had, I got something out of them all, even tho I liked some personally more than others.

The last word on the Eren era can’t quite be written yet because we still need a judgment on those who he has chosen to pass the club on to (HK Paul gets plaudits for his good choice). So that lies at some point in the future.