Article by Maria Olteanu – Published on Sunday, 17 May 2026, 07:21 / Updated on Sunday, 17 May 2026 07:32
Mirel Rădoi (45 years old) continues his streak of failures on the bench of the new team, Gaziantep. He lost on Saturday night against those from Basaksehir, score 1-2, in a match of stage #34 in the Turkish first league, and after the match he admitted that he is the main culprit for the collapse of the team he leads, raising a warning signal for what is to come this summer.
Since the arrival of Mirel Rădoi, Gaziantep has not taken a single point in the championship, having failure after failure. After 0-3 with Eyupspor, 0-2 with Beşiktaș, 1-2 with Goztepe, the Romanian technician's team also played against Başakşehir on Saturday, a team that Rădoi eliminated from the Conference League preliminaries just a few months ago when he was a coach at Craiova University.
At the end of the match, the coach drew the first conclusions and took all the blame on himself for the situation of the team, which ended up in 12th place in the Turkish first league after the fourth failure in a row under his command.
The reaction of Mirel Rădoi, after another failure in Gaziantep
“We played a good match today, but we couldn't win. It was a difficult match for us. I thank the players for their attitude. I don't want to talk too much about the refereeing.
Our previous two matches were against Goztepe and Istanbul Başakşehir, who were fighting for European cups, but we fought well.
I blame myself for these results. I've made mistakes too, nobody's perfect.
In the summer there will be players who will leave and players who will stay with the team. We have to see who goes and who stays, and that will be determined in the summer. If we don't tell each other honestly, the next year will be all the more difficult for us.
We need to find better players and become a better team,” Radoi said after Saturday night's match to Turkish media.
