A crisis between Al-Khatib and Kohler over Al-Ahly’s new deal
Swiss Marcel Kohler, the technical director of Al-Ahly Club, sparked a crisis during the past days with Mahmoud Al-Khatib, the club’s president, due to the foreign deal, during the current summer transfer period.
It was The Swiss coach had asked the president of Al-Ahly to include a foreign defender to be the fifth foreigner in the team after Reda Selim, Percy Tao, Yahya Attiya Allah, and Ali Maaloul.
After Al-Ahly management began searching for a defender Outside the Egyptian League, and after I negotiated with more than one defender, most notably the Moroccan Ashraf Dari and an African duo, I was surprised that Kohler asked to include a striker instead of a defender, which angered Al-Khatib.