The corridors of the Egyptian Al-Ahly Club are witnessing a state of extreme alert following the loss to Zamalek in the African Super Cup, as the planning committee headed by Mahmoud Al-Khatib is working on making many decisions related to the first football team, to return it again to the path of championships.
Sources close to club president Mahmoud Al-Khatib revealed to Emirates Al-Youm: “The Planning Committee is in the process of summoning Swiss coach Marcel Kohler, after the end of the football team’s negative rest, to hold him accountable for the reasons behind Al-Ahly’s modest performance in the Super Final, and the penalties imposed.” In the process of signing the players after the loss to Zamalek.”
It is expected that the meeting will witness a clash between the Planning Committee and the Swiss coach regarding the foreign striker file, which will be reopened again during the meeting, as the Planning Committee had previously nominated three foreign strikers who were previously rejected by Kohler, as the coach will be notified of the inevitability of choosing between one of them to contract with him before the transfer period closes. In the Egyptian League, scheduled for the end of next October.
The sources confirmed that “the Planning Committee is in the process of appointing a new football director, contrary to the wishes of Kohler, who rejects this position within the technical staff, which he heads, as the former Al-Ahly duo Alaa Mihoub and Walid Salah El-Din Najmi will be nominated to compare them, while the idea of Sayed Abdel Hafeez returning to this position has been rejected.” Again, after the dispute between him and Mahmoud Al-Khatib.
The sources indicated, “The Planning Committee put before it all scenarios related to the coach’s refusal to comply with those decisions, including ending the relationship with him and searching for a new coach.”
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