Report … Does Saint-Etienne need the services of Mustafa Muhammad?

The main concern of the Zamalek club fans today is nothing more than the tranquility about the future of Mustafa Mohamed, the team’s striker, and his most outstanding goal in recent months, which has been pursuing professional performances on the European continent from the last summer.

Yesterday, the Zamalek channel confirmed the arrival of an official offer from the French club Saint-Etienne, to hire Mustafa Mohamed during the next winter transfer period, for 3.5 million euros, and the same channel added that the young forward is firmly committed to going through professional experience.

Saint-Etienne’s offer to sign Mustafa Mohamed is not the first of its kind, as Zamalek officials confirmed during the recent summer transfer period that the club had already received two official offers from two Turkish clubs to sign the club. team forward, and Fenerbahce was reported to be one of the two clubs.

However, the signs reinforce the clear seriousness of the French club and the Egyptian forward towards the new offer, as confirmed by Ahmed Eid Abdel-Malik, former star of Zamalek, through the social network “Twitter” that Mustafa Mohamed told him personally that he is determined to soon enter a professional experience, adding that the player refuses to wait until the end of the season and the football matches of the next Olympic Games in the Japanese capital, Tokyo, on the pretext that he doubts the arrival of special offers at that time.

Mostafa Mohamed has recently become Egypt’s top striker, scoring 16 goals for Zamalek last season, with 11 goals in the Egyptian Premier League and five goals in the CAF Champions League.

The U23 Africa Cup of Nations was one of the stations that confirmed the outstanding value of the distinguished forward, as he was crowned the top scorer in competitions held in the Egyptian territories last year with 4 goals, and was one of the contributors highlights to the crowning of the Egyptian team with the title, and their qualification for the Olympic Games.

Mostafa Mohamed continued to shine throughout the current season, scoring two goals for his team during two Egyptian Premier League matches, the first contributing to Zamalek’s victory over the Arab Contractors with a clean double, while the second was a draw. with Pyramids in the second round of the local competition.

For his part, Saint-Etienne seems to be in dire need of the Egyptian forward’s services, as the team led by veteran coach Claude Boyle is clearly suffering on the offensive level, ranking fourth among the worst offensive lines in Ligue 1 this season. , with 18 goals.

Saint-Etienne occupies fourteenth place in the Ligue 1 leaderboard, with 18 points, after 17 rounds of competition have passed, and despite the improvement in the team’s offensive performance during the last matches, after scoring six goals in the last three games, Claude Boyle continues to suffer from an attacking crisis, as he has to involve several full-backs and playmakers in the position of the frank forward.

Saint-Etienne’s roster includes just two players in the position of a Frankish striker, Frenchman Jean-Philippe Crasso of Ivorian descent and young Charlize Abbey of Togolese descent.

Saint-Etienne signed Jean-Philippe Crasso in a free transfer, after his contract with Epinal, who competes in the fourth division, expired, while my 20-year-old father was promoted, and both players do not regularly participate in the ranks of the team.

Saint-Etienne also includes Tunisian veteran Wehbe Al-Khazri on the offensive line, after the player gradually shifted from participating in playing point guard and left-wing positions to playing explicit offensive roles in recent seasons, but also continues to participate. in many games behind the forward in recent meetings.

In Saint Etienne’s last league game against Monaco, which ended with a two-goal draw for each team, Boyle decided to involve Gabonese left-back Denis Bwanga in the center of the forward, which was repeated in some games of the season, as happened in the previous game against Nmes, which ended with the result. The same, as Boyle pushed veteran right winger Romain Hamoma into the attack line, which was repeated with the French player in previous matches.

Mostafa Mohamed’s opportunity can be excellent to reserve a basic position in the Saint-Etienne ranks in the event of his transfer, and it is the same opportunity that gives Zamalek the ability to demand a satisfactory financial reward from the club, at the same time. light of the French club’s clear need for the services of the French striker.