Even those who are not interested in Turkish football know Fenerbahçe, Galatasaray and Beşiktaş. They are the big guns of Turkish football. Except in some very rare instances, these three teams have always been part of the championship race and at least one of them gets the title at the end. Nevertheless, as Turkish football slowly enters the modern era, new power centers develop in the world of football. Konyaspor and Osmanlıspor, two Anatolian teams who are representing Turkey in the Europa League this season and Başakşehirspor, who are the league leaders at the end of the eighth week of the Super League are the most promising candidates to overthrow the regime of the Istanbul giants. What makes them a better option to guide Turkish football rather than Istanbul giants is that they also represent modern, productive football.

Today, even though some brave coaches and executives have created promising alternatives, Turkish football is still being ruled by consumption-based, lazy and hostile Istanbul giants. Although Beşiktaş coach Şenol Güneş represents a different football philosophy, it is only a matter of time before the old, monstrous Beşiktaş awake if the team loses two games in a row. Thus, individual resistance to the ancient regime is absolutely precious, but without creating safe zones that are away from the greed and arrogance of Istanbul businessmen, it is impossible to base Turkish football on young talent and beautiful football.

Exactly at this point, Konyaspor, Osmanlıspor and Başakşehirspor make great examples for reformist football styles. All three coaches of these clubs worked at big clubs and Başakşehirspor's coach Abdullah Avcı even managed the national team for two years, but they all left their jobs heart broken. There they understood the basic truth; no serious and genuine success can be achieved under the shadow of the greedy businessmen of the old regime. When you work under these people, nothing is more important than short-term success, all you have to do is to win the next game. Therefore, coaches forget about producing new talents, waste the club's budget on unnecessary transfers and create the ugliest strategies to achieve success in the easiest way.

However, this is obviously not what I and most of the Turkish fans want for the future of Turkish football. What we want to see young players play more in beautiful, visually attractive games where money is spent for the right reasons. Now, I want you to consider the importance of these safe zones, these sweet Anatolian teams again. If you add together the budgets of these three teams, you barely reach the budget of an Istanbul giant, and I guarantee you that tactics are not so different from budgets. These teams have been working with the same coach for a long period of time and they have developed sufficient, repeatable strategies, while the Istanbul giants compensate for their impatience with big numbers and fancy transfers. Hence, the question is simple: either Turkish football will produce its own talents and build a unique strategy on them, or teams will keep continue consuming what others produce and simply who has the biggest budget will collect trophies.

The historical practice of the second way collapsed many times and as the downfall of the Turkish national team and Istanbul giants show, Turkey needs a new football philosophy, as I have written many times. If you think what I talk about is just a utopia, do not forget to check out Konyaspor, Osmanlıspor and Başakşehirspor one year later, you will be surprised.