Salaoui outlined five benefits that their team reaped from the League’s decision to cancel the Arab Gulf League for the 2019-2020 season, due to the Corona pandemic, most notably: eliminating the negative results achieved in the tournament, removing pressure from the Romanian coach Laurent Regicamp, and concluding new club contracts during a period League stops, keep the team stars.
They told «Emirates Today»: “Many clubs benefited from the decision to cancel the league, and Al Wasl is among the happiest with this decision, especially since the team was not competing for the League title or the qualifying centers for the AFC Champions League.”
For his part, former board member of Al Wasl Club Sultan Hareb said that Rijikamp is the biggest beneficiary of the decision to cancel the season, adding: “Al Wasl lost unprecedented results under Rijikamp, and I find no reason to continue with the team, and there is no doubt that stopping the league and then taking the league A decision to cancel the season contributed to the coach’s guarantee that he would continue in his position.
He pointed out that the best way should be taken from canceling the league and the unprecedented long period obtained by the clubs, by rearranging the club’s papers, and by focusing on concluding contracts that benefit the team, otherwise “leopards” will not be the beneficiaries of the Corona virus pandemic period.
In turn, the former supervisor of the first football team of Al Wasl club Majed Al Falasi said: “The departure of Ecuadorian Fernando Jaipur, German Christian Trish and Brazilian Lucas Galvao is a positive thing, especially since the team is able to include foreign players better than them.”
He continued: «While the majority of the clubs are suffering as a result of the crisis (Covid-19), life has returned to the connection by resolving many files, such as renewing contracts for some stars, maintaining the international midfielder Ali Salmin, and adhering to the continuation of Fabio Lima.
As for the former media spokesman for Al Wasl club, Adel Darwish, he said: “The crisis that occurred worldwide due to (Covid-19) and negatively affected football has two aspects, through some pros and cons.” He emphasized that “this crisis gave Al Wasl an opportunity Getting an electric shock until the club wakes up after the negative results it achieved in the last two seasons.
He explained: “Al-Wasl has benefited morally from canceling the league by getting rid of the negative results incurred by the team and receiving losses with great results, besides that the club was not a competitor for the title, so the decision to cancel the league brought happiness to the club.” He continued: "One of the most prominent benefits is the signing of a foreign player who supports the defense line by including Brazilian Neres, as well as the inclusion of Argentine Nicholas Oroz to support the midfield, and I think that the team must contract with another foreign player in the base so that Al Wasl has a strong midfield with Ali Salimin."
He pointed out that the file of the resident players must be reviewed, stressing that the names that Al-Wasl contracted with last season did not provide the required addition to the team, while stressing the need to reconnect with the club's fans and take advantage of one of the most prominent strengths that any club in the league desires, which She contributed to the improvement of the results of the “Panthers” in 2017-2018, before the club's results were retracted and the fans moved away from the stands.
5 benefits
1- The departure of foreign players.
2- Get rid of negative results.
3- Decompress decompression.
4- Concluding new contracts.
5- Maintaining the team's stars.
Al Wasl benefited morally from canceling the league by eliminating the negative results incurred by the team.