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Ibrahim Abdullah, a member of the Executive Committee of the Zamalek Club, revealed that he and his colleagues were tasked with managing Zamalek from the council of former President Mortada Mansour, with only one million and 250 thousand pounds in the club’s treasury, and he also highlighted that Sports Minister Ashraf Sobhi does not make decisions on behalf of the club’s management.
Likewise, Abdullah explained that he saw current coach Patrice Carteron not flee the club, but resigned due to compelling circumstances, ahead of the semi-finals of the CAF Champions League last season.
Abdullah told the Sada Al-Balad channel, saying: “We are trying to do everything possible to secure new resources for Zamalek players in all games. The financial crisis will be resolved soon to compensate the players for the difficult times. We apologize for that. ” . “
She added: “With all due respect to Mortada Mansour’s advice, she worked within her capabilities and accomplished things and made mistakes for the most part.”
He continued: “I want to thank the Minister of Sports, Ashraf Sobhi. He suffered a severe attack from the Zamalek fans despite his implementation of the law and froze the previous advice, because apparently the newspaper revealed that there are suspicions of financial irregularities that may come up with an assault on public money. “
He revealed: “The Sports Minister did not make a decision in the management of the Zamalek club, and we do not refer to him in any decision.”
He remarked: “The Minister of Sports responded to our request to intervene with the Ministry of Solidarity in the seizure of the club’s funds. He also helped us lift the tax reserve on the club’s accounts, and also helped us not withdraw the land from October 6. of the club, and we did not ask him to sit with Ferjani Sassi. “
He explained: “On November 27 there was only 1,250,000 pounds in the Zamalek treasury, and what is required to pay all the obligations is 256 million pounds.”
He highlighted: “The players who renewed our contracts with them did not receive the advance of their contract when signing, if they are players who love the entity. They signed contracts that are not at all exaggerated, and among them Shikabala has not received any. money so far. “
He stressed that “Ferjani Sassi did not sign for any club, and his agent is negotiating with us. He is an important player and we hope that he will continue.”
“The presentation company helped us a lot to pay our past due fees in the previous period,” he said. “They deserve our thanks.”
He revealed: “We began to implement the club’s branch on October 6 and the club’s stadium, after signing a protocol with the Ministry of Military Production with the BOT system, by which Zamalek Club is in charge of the management. We have started the procedures to establish the soccer company, where Zamalek owns 51% of the assets, and we will offer 20% to the public to buy shares, and the rest. The property will go back to investment houses that will save us 600 million pounds. “
“We don’t close deals because we have a decent team, and at the beginning of the season we were not asked to close any deals, and in the winter we closed the deals that they asked of us,” he said.
He explained: “We only sat down with Pacheco 3 times, the first was to get to know each other and the second was to ask him about the problems he suffered after Mahalla’s defeat. The third session was to tell us that he wanted a forward after he agreed to the departure of Mustafa Muhammad. Pacheco asked for 5 attackers, the number 3 of them was Marwan Hamdy “.
He added: “Major General Imad Abdel Aziz, the club president, asked Pacheco what if we brought him two attackers? Pacheco replied that it would be (super), so we included Saif Al-Din Al-Jaziri.”
He admitted: “We may have made a mistake by joining Al-Jaziri and he will not participate in the African Champions League, but we bought the player to participate in all the championships, not only in Africa, and he is a wonderful player, skillful and useful. ” player.”
He explained: “I did not know that Saif El Din Jaziri would not participate in the African Champions League before his inclusion, as I am not (a footballer).”
And he continued: “With Pacheco we did not lose technically, but we would have lost because (the confusion), there was no discipline.”
“Carteron did not flee, Carteron resigned and there are reasons that prompted him to do so,” he said.
