Al Ain team manager Ahmed Al Shamsi said that linking any player to approaching the transition to the ranks of the Al Ain team raises the player’s price and that many names are presented to the club, but the decision is in accordance with the work mechanism in the club, while at the same time reassuring that they are close to settling the contract file soon.

Al Shamsi stressed that the transfer market is very large and that many players are linked to the transfer to Al Ain team, which leads to a rise in their prices.

Al-Ain team manager Al-Ain Al-Youm said after the match between Al-Ain and Bunyodkor that the names that were linked to the club during the past days are jurisprudence.

He continued, "The jurisprudence is appreciated by the media because it wants to search for news. Sometimes it is true jurisprudence, but at times it is wrong."

On the anticipation of Al-Ainawi Street to resolve the winter contracts file, Al-Shamsi said: "We will resolve the fate of the contracts soon and we have the opportunity to amend the Asian list even a week before the start of the group stage."