Egyptian club Zamalek witnessed an "earthquake" yesterday evening, Tuesday, after the French coach Patrice Carteron apologized to the board of directors headed by Mortada Mansour, and expressed his desire not to complete his career with the white team in the coming period.

Carteron refused all attempts with him to continue until the end of the CAF Champions League with Zamalek, and insisted on leaving, paying the penalty clause, and also rejected the club president's offer to amend the value of his contract.

Zamalek president Mortada Mansour considered the sudden resignation of his team’s coach as a "conspiracy" against the club, especially as it comes before playing an important match in the CAF Champions League semi-finals.

Patrice Carteron informs Zamalek that he apologizes for not completing the task of leading the club's football team, due to special circumstances.

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Mansour described the Arab club - he did not name it - that influenced the French coach Patrice Carteron to leave Zamalek at this time, as practicing "piracy" and offending relations.

"For the coach to leave at this time and in this way," Mansour said on Zamalek TV. "There is a suspicion of a conspiracy in that."

"Al-Jazeera Net" contacted 3 sources, the first from within the Zamalek club to confirm the existence of a conspiracy, as he had already confirmed that the team was facing an indignant war after winning the African Super at the expense of Tunisia's Esperance in Qatar, then the Egyptian Super at the expense of Al-Ahly in the Emirates, and finally a repeat victory over Al-Ahly in the Egyptian league with three.

Behind the scenes of the Zamalek board of directors' session with Carteron before leaving .. and two offers from Mortada Mansour and the French coach are rejected by #match # Echo_Balad @ HHathout pic.twitter.com/zEuI69hUXZ

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The source told Al-Jazeera Net, "Zamalek is exposed to rumors every day after achieving the two Super Cups; but after winning three against Al-Ahly, the matter passed the stage of rumors, and reached the distraction of the players' minds, as Mustafa Muhammad, Ferjani Sassi and Youssef Ibrahim (Obama) surprised the team players with the arrival of offers Fictional Egyptian and Arab clubs. "

He continued, "The offers that reached the trio with a mouthful of financial value, and did not occur in the history of any Egyptian player until Ramadan Sobhi, the owner of the recent uproar, so why did these offers appear and the three players have extended contracts with Zamalek?"

"After they failed to win over the previous trio, they found their way in Carteron, the coach of the team, who left at a very difficult time, as if the goal was to strike the stability of Zamalek, and not to the genius of Carteron," he concluded.

When asked who is behind this, the source, who refused to reveal his identity, said, "We know that a rival club wants to repeat the scenario in 1993, when Zamalek crowned the African and Egyptian League championships, so he emptied the team of its stars, headed by Emmanuel Emonky, Rida Abdel Aal, Mustafa Najm and others; But this will be done in 2020 with the help of the sponsor. "

The sponsor was a word given to the Saudi Minister of Entertainment Turki Al-Sheikh, when he was honorary president of Al-Ahly of Egypt, before problems arose between him and the board of directors of Al-Ahmar headed by Mahmoud Al-Khatib.

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Several years ago, the Board of Directors of Al-Ahly Club decided to grant the honorary presidency of the club to the Saudi official, who submitted his resignation after disagreements and confusion that reached the point of accusing the Saudi Minister of Al-Ahly Council of being a "gang", which prompted Al-Khatib's council to withdraw the honorary presidency from him again.

"Al-Jazeera Net" contacted sources within the Al-Ahly Club Council and other sources close to Turki Al-Sheikh to clarify the matter.

Despite the extreme secrecy, Al-Jazeera Net has learned that there is a hidden reconciliation between Turki Al-Sheikh and the Board of Directors of Al-Ahly Club, which will not come to light now.

To avoid an angry reaction from Al-Ahly fans.

Al-Khatib's council - according to a source inside the Red Castle - asked Turki Al-Sheikh to completely remove his hand from supporting Zamalek;

Indeed, the disputes within the White Castle again, and the return of financial support for Al-Ahly.

The beginning of the instability of Zamalek was represented by the departure of Carteron from the white team, followed by the departure of Ferjani Sassi and Youssef Ibrahim "Obama", who received great Gulf offers.

According to the sources, Carteron, with the support of Turki Al-Sheikh, moved to the Saudi Al-Taawon Club, paying the full penalty clause to Zamalek "in cash", as he arrived at the club's headquarters on Tuesday evening carrying the money in a handbag.

As for the financial support for Al-Ahly, it will be in stages, the first stage is the termination of the deal of Youssef Blayli, the Saudi Al-Ahly player, and Badr Banoun, the Moroccan Raja player for Al-Ahly, and the second stage will be agreed upon later, after proving the good intentions of the two parties.

"Al-Jazeera Net" contacted a responsible security source in Egypt, who confirmed the validity of a reconciliation between the Saudi minister and the Al-Ahly Council;

But he revealed a surprise, namely, the timing of Carteron's departure from Zamalek, which coincided with the signing of the normalization agreement between the UAE, Bahrain and Israel under American auspices.

The source explained that "the Carteron crisis appeared to the surface on Monday, and it could have been avoided; but Turki Al-Sheikh leaked the topic to the journalists belonging to the Al-Ahly club, who wrote the news, due to his desire to distract the mind and attention of the Egyptian community from the normalization agreement," citing the transfer of social networking sites. And the "trends" from criticizing the positions of the UAE, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia to talking about the crisis of Zamalek and Carteron, which dominated the rest of the discussions.