Report .. Why did the union fight to hire Hegazy?

In light of the clear defensive suffering experienced by the Saudi team Al Ittihad, numerous Saudi reports confirmed that the club had reached an agreement with the Egyptian West Bromwich defender Ahmed Hegazy.

The same Saudi reports also indicated that the official announcement of the passage of Hijazi to the ranks of Al-Ittihad will take place on Sunday, so that the player will join their team directly in the coming days.

Hijazi suffers the irregularity of his participation in West Bromwich during this season, where he participated in the only match of the English Premier League, which was against Burnley on the fifth day of the competition.

Despite the contribution of Hijazi’s first primary participation with his team jersey, West Brom has kept its nets clean for the first time since the start of the competition, after the team had the worst defense, receiving 13 goals In four rounds, his move to the Saudi stadiums looks imminent.

Al-Ittihad’s search for a defender with distinctive English stadium experience seems justified, with disastrous defensive levels hitting the start of the team that narrowly escaped relegation to the First Division last season.

Al-Ittihad is 11th in the Saudi Premier League table, with one point, after losing two goals to the deal in the first round, and drawing with two goals in his likeness with Al-Fateh in the second round.

The Jeddah city team suffered a lot of confusion over their professional defenders of late, after Moroccan Marouane da Costa sparked a crisis in the team, following his decision to unilaterally terminate his contract with Al-Ittihad in mid of last season, under the pretext of delaying their financial contributions.

Da Costa, who moved to the federation from the Turkish Basaksehir team in 2019, decided to terminate his contract with the Saudi club in January this year, and also made an official complaint to FIFA, before moving to Trabzonspor in February.

Etihad’s defense line problems did not stop at Da Costa’s departure, as Brazilian Bruno Ofini presented catastrophic levels that kept him away from the accounts of his compatriot Fabio Carelli, the team’s coach, who became urgent need for a distinguished advocate in the coming days.

Al-Ittihad fans took their anger out on Ofini on social media and blamed him for the team’s initial loss to the deal, after he caused a penalty kick that cost the team a goal, and also performed very poorly. throughout the game.

The club’s management decided, consequently, to freeze the Brazilian player and look for an alternative defender with outstanding experience, to lead the team’s defense line during the current season, hoping to avoid a repeat of the scenario of the last two seasons, which were witnesses the team’s struggle to avoid relegation, despite the conclusion of many strong deals.

And Da Costa had expressed during the last days his desire to return to the ranks of the Union, after amicably settled his crisis with the club, but several Saudi reports confirmed that he had been completely left out of the accounts of the club’s management, for the way they left their ranks.

The numbers of Al Ittihad’s defenders during the two league matches confirmed that the team’s defense line urgently needs support, as not all of the team’s central defenders managed to make a single successful intervention on the opposing attackers over the course of the two clashes.

Ofini, along with Ziad, the journalist, participated in the center of the Union’s defense against the agreement, before the latter played alongside Abdel Mohsen Fallata against Al-Fateh, after Offini was suspended.

Ofini and Fallata failed to cut any ball during the confrontation that they played together in the face of the agreement, in addition to not making any successful interference, in a catastrophic figure for any defensive duo during a match, before the journalist and Fallata cut the ball alone. three times in front of Al-Fateh, but neither did they. Any successful intervention throughout the meeting.

Hegazy, 29, has played for West Brom since 2017 and began his professional career wearing an Ismaili jersey in 2009, before playing for Fiorentina, Italy’s Perugia and Al-Ahly.