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Football: Besiktas appoint Senol Gunes as manager
Black Eagles agree $1.7mn deal with former national coach
11.06.2015 - Update : 11.06.2015
ANKARA
Turkish Spor Toto Super League club Besiktas has signed Turkish manager Senol Gunes for two seasons with an option to extend his deal for a further year.
The Istanbul side said that Gunes will receive 1.5 million euros ($1.69 million) for the 2015-16 and 2016-17 football seasons.
According to the agreement, Besiktas will pay Senol Gunes 500,000 euros as compensation his contract is terminated prematurely after the first season.
Sixty-three-year-old Gunes managed Bursaspor last season.
During his career his biggest achievement was Turkey’s third spot in the 2002 World Cup in South Korea and Japan.
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