Barcelona are to study the possibility of sending out new signing Arda Turan to SuperLig champions, Galatasaray on a six month loan period according to reports in local Turkish media outlets. The current European champions are anxious that their new acquisition maintains his first team fitness and a return to Galatasaray, may be the ideal solution. Due to a FIFA sanction, Barça can sign new players but they can’t play in any official competition for the club until January 1, 2016.
Turan is a native of Istanbul and Galatasaray was the club he supported as a boy and the first club to give him a professional playing contract. He stayed with ‘CimBom’ for six years before moving to Atlético Madrid in 2011.
Neither Barça nor the Turkish side have made any official comment on the possibility and no definitive decision can be made about any loan deal for Turan until the outcome of the forthcoming presidential elections on July 18 for the new Barça president to approve of the move from Atleti to the Catalan side.