ISTANBUL - Superleague team Besiktas said on Thursday that talks on transfer of its striker Ilhan Mansiz had started with the Crimson Football Club Co. Ltd.
The 28-year-old Besiktas forward scored the golden goal and took Turkey into the semi-finals of the 2002 World Cup.
Crimson Group, operator of Japan's largest Internet shopping mall Rakuten Ichiba, took over the J-League first-division club Vissel Kobe.
(MS-AÖ) 05.02.2004