His side certainly went into the game in good form after winning the Turkish Super Cup - the equivalent of the Community Shield in England - and opening their league campaign with an away victory.
In Silicon Valley, it has become popular to find creative ways to shield management and corporate founders from shareholder pressures, either by creating super-voting stock or trying to avoid the stock market all together.
Part of the nervousness around this issue is that super-injunctions are a relatively new phenomenon, and the ramifications of MPs breaking their terms with the shield of parliamentary privilege have not been resolved by the courts.