Ahly chairman promises a different Ahly next season

Mahmoud Taher asked fans during a Sunday television programme with Lames El Hadedy on CBC Egypt to be patient as he works to unify the old players with the newly signed in order to start winning trophies again.

Following a trophy-less season, Ahly management axed coach Fathi Mabrouk and appointed Abdel-Aziz “Zizo” Abdel-Shafi as a caretaker manager. They later announced the signing of Portuguese Jose Vitor dos Santos Peseiro.

Hundreds of the Cairo giants’ fans gathered before the club’s headquarters to demand that the team’s management board, headed by Taher, retract its decision or announce its resignation, with demonstrators chanting “leave, Taher”.

Check the video here: (CBC EGYPT)

The Ahly chairman appeared in a television tv show on Sunday to defend his decisions and to address the fans attitude towards the current board as he mentioned more topics and promised to be resolved next season.

Taher confirmed that, “there are technical problems in the football team, so we appointed caretaker coach Abdel-Aziz ‘Zizo’ Abdel-Shafi and he will be responsible for the football section in the club.”

“We don’t deny that there are problems in the football team. The last football director Alaa Abdel-Sadek did his best to resolve it, but bad luck offset his efforts,” Taher said during the television interview.

“We know exactly what the problem is, so we appointed the club’s icon Abdel-Aziz Abdel-Sahfi to be responsible for the football affairs.

Watch the video interview here: