Fuck Turkey and their whining about being in a worse position than Italy, if they would use their money with brain and develope their football more with the millions they pay to washed up stars with time they could be on the level of Germany with their passion for football, but all they care about is the present, and main examples of that braindead money-splashing on greedy has-beens are Galatasaray and Fenerbahce. Latvian NT came to Turkey's hell in 2003 (the supposed strong times of Turkish football, early 2000s) and fought back from 2:0 down to 2:2 in the Euro2004 play-offs and went to Portugal. We have 1 decent football stadium with 10 000 seats, the others are 3-4k max. And like 8 pro clubs, out of whom 3 has a budget bigger than one million dollars. The highest ever transfer money payed for a Latvian guy must be the 3m euros Dynamo Kiev payed for Verpakovskis. You need money to achieve things, but Turkey has more than enough of it, what they lack is the brain. Same story with Russia.