The Portuguese coach, Jamie Pacheco, Zamalek coach, asked why the club management asked him about the idea of joining Ahmed Al Sheikh, if they would not include him in the end.
Pacheco said on Zamalek TV: “My question was asked,” Do I want Ahmed El Sheikh or not? “
The sheikh signed his joining contracts with Zamalek after Al-Ahly dispensed with him, before the club’s management decided not to include him due to the emergence of statements attributed to him, in which he attacked Zamalek, in 2015, when he preferred to join Al-Ahly.
Pacheco added, “The current list has some shortcomings in the substitutes. I see that Ahmed Fattouh and Abdullah Jumaa in front of him may form a wonderful double on the left side. I asked the Football Committee to include Masak. I wanted Ahmed Al Sheikh because he has great potential and is left and plays fixed balls well.” For reasons I do not know, he did not join. “
“I would prefer to include two or three players in February. I want Razzaq Cisse to return from Al Ittihad of Alexandria and I want to include Messak,” he said.
On the authority of Amir Adel, he said: “Amir Adel was presented to me and I was asked for my technical opinion, I watched his videos. With all respect to the player, and all the best for him in the Tigris, I saw an interesting player in him but he will not benefit our team and it is better not to spend money to join him and I saw that it is the first I develop the young players of the team. “
Regarding Ali Ghazal, he said, “I know Ali Ghazal since he was in Nacional Madeira, and I wanted to include him, and for reasons that I do not know, he joined another club.”
“Hamza Mathlouthi is an international player and this is a good thing. We are preparing him gradually so that he does not suffer from any physical problems and so that he appears in the best way when he plays,” he added.
“I loved Mathlouthi very much, and we also have Hazem Imam, who is a great player, and Ahmed Eid, who has improved a lot,” he stressed.
And he concluded on this point, “I am happy with the continuation of the players who were with me last season.”
Pacheco praised his players, saying: “Tariq Hamed is the heart of the Zamalek club, and a great representative of the fans of the team inside the club, and he starred in Sharqi, Zizou and Mustafa Muhammad who prevented me from giving the opportunity to the substitutes.”
And he stressed, “Some players, when they got the opportunity, did not provide the expected performance like Mustafa Fathy.”
And he added, “Hazem Imam is a distinguished player, and his injury affected the team. I want to give opportunities to young players such as Ahmed Eid, Usama Faisal and Yassin Merhi.”
“I ask the young players to be patient so that they get the chance,” he explained.
He added, “I would like to greet the players I trained in the first period in Zamalek. In the first period I had more substitutes and more balance in the list because there are 20 players at the same level.”
He continued, “I have always been in my work in any club, I like to depend on the youth because they have the affiliation and they are the raw material for any club.”
“How do we say that a team scored 17 goals in 10 defensive team matches? We are an organized team. I allow the young Ahmed Eid to attack and create goals. There is no rules or catalog that compels me to make changes during the match at any time,” he asked.
He concluded, “Since I came, Al-Ahly has not expanded a difference with us in the league, and the league is not decided in the first weeks.”
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