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[WHO DID YOU PREFER PLAYING FOR: GALATASARAY OR FENERBAHCE?]
Well I am still a Galatasaray player really, I'm on loan to Blackburn so that's it really.
Right let me just be honest because I'm always honest,
coming to Turkey was a new experience for me,
coming to Turkey was a new experience for me but to be in a team with the likes of,
Roberto Carlos, Stephen Appiah, Alex De Souza, Deivid, my coach was Zico, the legendary Zico.
Edu Dracena, Diego Lugano, Gökhan Gönül, to be in a team with players like that was amazing for me, it was a privilege.
Obviously things didn't go as planned, we got through to the, we beat Chelsea at home, we got through to the quarter finals of the Champions League.
We lost on away goals, so it was a really, really good time, they were both different.
To go to Galatasaray was in a new era of Galatasaray, new stadium, a new coach, the amazing coach Fatih Terim.
Playing with new players, you know for me the best goalkeeper in the world Fernando Muslera, Felipe Melo,.
Obviously I am a Galatasaray player and my family support Galatasaray,
so I don't really want to say who it was better playing for but I had good times, I had great times at both clubs, but I am still a Galatasaray player.
So you know playing for Galatasaray is amazing.
[WHICH CLUB HAS THE MOST HARDCORE FANS: GALATASARAY OR FENERBAHCE?]
I'd say Galatasaray all day long, their fans will die for the cause, and when they get angry they know how to tear up their own stadium,
and you do feel the wrath, you feel the venom, you can feel the passion.
Just for me personally I don't mean no disrespect but for me, yeah Galatasaray.
[HOW DID GALATASARAY FANS REACT TO YOUR MOVE FROM FENERBAHCE?]
To be fair, I thought it was going to be worse than it was.
Obviously some fans you could never change their opinion no matter what, they will like you for one game,
but then when you have a bad game it's back to the same, what they where feeling in the first place,
but as soon as I played my first game which ended up being the last ever game in the Ali Sami Yen Stadium, and I scored the last goal ever.
So no one can ever take that away, it was the last goal ever in that legendary stadium.
After that the fans just went crazy.
[CAN YOU SAY SOMETHING IN TURKISH FOR YOUR TURKISH FANS?]
I said hello and I love you all.
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