Despite the clarity of the talent of the Egyptian star, Mohamed Salah, since the first day of his appearance and brilliance with the Arab Contractors team in the Egyptian Premier League, this talent did not convince the Zamalek club, which publicly refused to sign him for his selfishness.
Salah, the star of the Liverpool team, starred with the contractors in the local league since he first appeared at the age of 18, and began to draw attention to him with his breakthroughs and goals, which are almost similar to what he does today to join the Olympic team and qualify with him for the 2012 London Olympics.
In 2011, Salah was close to achieving his dream of joining the Zamalek team - which he encourages as it is frequent in Egypt - but Mamdouh Abbas, the club president at the time, rejected him, and said: “My opinion is that Salah is a player who needs a very big job, until he melts in the crucible of the Zamalek team, because he A player with a strong (selfish) ego, even though he is a great player."
Salah acknowledged Zamalek's rejection of him in a television interview he conducted after moving to the Swiss team Basel, and said that the dream of any player to join Al-Ahly or Zamalek, but Zamalek club refused to include him on the pretext that he needed time to join the white team, indicating that he had received Basel's offer and accepted it after Zamalek rejected him.
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This incident highlights the importance of having an expert eye in football, as clubs reject many players who star in other major clubs.
There are many examples in Egyptian football in particular, including Mustafa Younis, the captain of Al-Ahly and the former Egyptian team, who failed the tests of the Submerged Plastic Club to join Al-Ahly after that and become one of his legends in the line of defense.
Reda Abdel-Al, another former Egyptian star, was playing in a club in the second division called Nile Pharmaceuticals, and his coach and discoverer, Hassan Seif, tells that he presented him to Al-Ahly during a friendly match, but Al-Ahly coach at the time - although he was a specialized academic coach - described him as a “teacher” i.e. a skilled player and retains With the ball a lot, and the team does not need his likes, to immediately join Zamalek and become one of the most prominent stars in the nineties of the last century, to be joined by Al-Ahly after that, but at a high price.
Even the star of Al-Ahly and the former Egyptian national team, Muhammad Abu Trika, Zamalek refused to sign him as well, in 2003, which was revealed by Kamal Darwish, the club’s president at the time, by saying that Abu Trika came to the Zamalek headquarters next to his former club, the Arsenal, and it was agreed to contract with him, but soon the deal collapsed. For Zamalek's rejection of the financial arsenal's requests, he moved to Al-Ahly and became one of the club's legends.