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Expectations of record contracts for clubs in the winter transfers due to the “failed” summer deals
Walid Al Shamsi: “This makes the clubs content themselves with filling the shortage in the specific centers, instead of making huge deals.”
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The ADNOC Professional Football League clubs are preparing to support their ranks with new players during the winter transfer period, which starts today and will continue until the first of next February, at a time when the number of deals is expected to reach a record high at the level of local and foreign players, especially that a group of players who They were contracted during the summer transfers, and they did not provide anything to accompanies them to continue with their clubs.
A statistic for "Emirates Today", which it collected from press data issued by the Football Association during the previous years, showed that the winter contracting period during the past six years continued to witness a great movement among the clubs affiliated with the Professional League, with 344 transactions for professional clubs, which gives an indication With the clubs entering the “winter” market with their weight, at a time when competition is burning at the level of title and survival, and the Asian participation of Al-Jazira clubs, Al-Ahly youth and Bani Yas clubs.
The 2019-2020 season witnessed the highest movements on the part of the clubs, as among the 302 transactions with the Football Association, the share of professional clubs was 103 transactions, which varied between registration, loan and contract termination, while the winter transfers in the 2016-2017 season witnessed the least movements, with 32 transactions. Just.
Despite the scarcity of names in the winter transfers, the financial strength of the clubs was the decisive factor in their contracts to attract stars, as Al-Ahly youth had previously contracted in previous seasons with Khamis Ismail from Al-Jazira, Al-Ain with Ahmed Khalil from Al-Jazira, and Nasser Al-Shamrani from the Saudi Crescent, for the ranks of Al Ain, and the Brazilian Leonardo, from the South Korean Jeonbuk of the island ranks, and the South Korean Chang Wu Rim, from the Korean Unity Club Daejeon.
One of the oldest players’ agents in the country, Walid Al Shamsi, said that the clubs’ movements in the winter transfers are to meet their needs in certain centers, and that the market’s confinement to certain names is always a reason for the decrease in transactions compared to the main transfers at the beginning of the season.
Al Shamsi confirmed to "Emirates Today" that a number of clubs with financial weight are far away in the competition for the league title at the present time, which may make them think a lot before contracting strong deals, and he said: "This makes the clubs content with filling the shortage in the specific centers instead of about making huge deals.
Al-Ain club had secured the contract with the replacement of the Tunisian international, Yassin Meriah, whose season officially ended with "Al-Zaeem" due to a rupture of the cruciate ligament, which he had suffered during his participation with his country in the Arab Cup, and entered as a substitute the Colombian defender Danilo Arboleda.
Al-Ahly youth midfielder, Carlos Eduardo, is on the list of departure, after his club received an offer from the Saudi League, and it is expected that the Super match next Friday against Al-Jazira will be the player's last appearance before returning to Saudi Arabia.
In Baniyas club, the Swedish striker Isaac Thelin is on the threshold of leaving, but this depends on finding the right alternative, at a time when the team coach, Romanian Daniel Isla, faced the difficulty of contracting a Romanian striker due to the budget.
The Romanian coach of Bani Yas, Daniel Isla, told the Romanian newspaper "AS", that he tried to sign Romanian players, but the value of the deal was high, and that he would try again during the winter transfer period that begins today.
The attacking duo of the Al Dhafra team, Senegalese Makiti Diop and Nigerian Emo Ezekiel, do not provide the expected level of them, which leads to improving the team's results, but nevertheless, Diop continues with the team, because of his high salary, while Ezekiel is expected to leave if there is a suitable alternative.
The Kalba Union is seeking to sign foreign players, at a time when Austrian Robert Zolge and Hungarian Roland Varga are out of the accounts.
Club movements in the last 6 years during the winter:
- 2015-2016: 82 transactions "44 for professional clubs".
- 2016 - 2017: 139 transactions «32 professional clubs».
- 2017-2018: 138 transactions (52 professional clubs).
- 2018 - 2019: 115 transactions "59 professional clubs".
- 2019 - 2020:302 transaction "103 professional clubs".
- 2020-2021: 352 transactions "54 professional clubs".
• 344 transactions concluded by professional clubs in 6 seasons in the winter transfers.
• The financial strength of the clubs was the decisive factor in their contracts to attract stars.
• Eduardo, Thelin, Zulge and Farga are on the departure list... and Diop continues.
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