The surprise, so far, in the winter transfer market was the absence of big deals except for Al-Ahly's contract with Spanish striker Conde, the former player of Baniyas.

In contrast, the Khorfakkan team "Mercato" led in five deals, including two foreign players and three citizens, according to the deals officially registered with the Football Association until yesterday.

Khorfakkan suffers from the bottom of the league, where it occupies the last place with four points from four draws, while it did not win after 12 rounds. And it became the most prominent clubs threatened with relegation this season. Khorfakkan is considered the most active in the "Mercato" in order to strengthen its ranks and improve its results, with 14 rounds remaining.

On the other hand, the top teams are still calm, with Al Ahly youth team making only one contract, while Sharjah, Al Ain, Al Jazeera did not announce any deals, as well as the Al Wasl, Al Dhafra and Union Kalba clubs.

It is noteworthy that the winter transportation market started on the seventh of this month, and will close on the third of February.

And due to the difficulty of placing many league teams, especially at the bottom, there is still time for many of them to conclude new deals during the coming period.

In total, the clubs concluded 19 deals for citizens and foreign players with the exception of (residents), while some are still looking to strengthen their ranks with resident players, such as Fujairah player Ayman Asoo.

Behind Khorfakkan comes in the number of deals, unity in four deals, where Al Annabi focused on strengthening the ranks with international national players, Khamis Ismail and Faris Juma, while he contracted with two foreigners, the Korean Lee Myung (former Al Ain player) and the Congolese Paul Jose.

As for Hatta, who faces Al-Wahda team tomorrow in the 13th round of the league, he has strengthened his ranks with three players, Brazilians Nelson and Samuel Rosa (returning to the team), in addition to contracting with Al-Dhafra player Hamad Al Marzouqi. The team is still open to concluding new deals, especially as the team suffers in the penultimate position in the league.

In contrast, Fujairah made two changes at the foreign level to solve the offensive crisis of the team, which they suffered in the previous rounds, by contracting with Ghanaian Ernst Asatni, in addition to the Brazilian player Jefferson, the same number of contracts for Bani Yas, which included Al-Nasr player Amer Mubarak, in the form of a six-month loan, in addition to Azerbaijani Richard Almeida, an alternative to Spaniard Conde, who moved to Al-Ahly youth in a single deal for the top of the ranking.

On the other hand, Ajman, Al-Nasr, Al-Ain teams were very calm, for example, it was only enough for Al-Nasr to recover Al-Hussein Saleh from his loan with Al-Wahda, for an urgent reason to compensate for the absence of Mahmoud Khamis.

On the other hand, Ajman's contract with Cameroonian Sebastian Sian came as an urgent reason as well, to substitute for Mali Hamid Doumbia, who was injured in the launch of the Arab Gulf League and will move away until the end of the season, which led the team to search for only one alternative, and only the group of citizens and foreign players that started During the season he presented great results, as he concluded the last three matches with positive results that modified the team's position in the competition.

As for the Al-Wasl team, its coach, Roman Rijikamp, ​​confirmed that he is happy with his players, and will not make any contract in the "winter Mercato", and confirmed this during the press conference the day before yesterday, before meeting Kalba, where he said that "there is no player available that can To be the required addition to the team. ”

Also interesting is Al Ain’s delay in concluding deals, despite its abandonment of its Algerian player, Abdel Rahman Meziane, who was absent for long periods due to an injury.

Al-Wasl coach Rijicamp confirmed that the club does not need any new players in January.

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Clubs did not announce until yesterday, any new contracts, which are Al Ain, Sharjah, Al Jazeera, Al Wasl, Al Dhafra and Kalba.