The beginning of the crisis came with Mansour’s return to the presidency of Zamalek after a year’s absence, since the decision to freeze his council last November, when he confirmed his support for the survival of French coach Carteron “but with a new system.”
The French coach had previously rejected the presence of a general coach and football manager in the technical staff of Zamalek during the period of the last temporary committee headed by Hussein Labib, which was objected to by the Mansour Council, who confirmed that he would add two elements to the technical staff, in addition to appointing Amir Mortada Mansour, son of the club president, as general supervisor of the club. football.
Mansour said in previous statements via “Sky News Arabia” that his board of directors settled on appointing a general coach and another assistant at the Carteron device, indicating that the technical director has the right to accept those names or appoint others.
Mansour stressed that he “will not allow the idea of not having a general Egyptian coach and another assistant in the white team’s apparatus,” stressing that the Zamalek board of directors made a final decision regarding the technical additions to the club’s technical staff.
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Carteron’s move was through warnings he sent to Zamalek officials via the club’s official e-mail, to demand obtaining his late financial dues for the month of last November.
And “Sky News Arabia” learned from sources inside Zamalek that the French coach sent more than an official warning to demand his monthly salary due for November, estimated at $150,000, and threatened, in his letter to club officials, to escalate to the International Football Association (FIFA), and terminate his contract. If he does not get his salary.
Mansour responded in media statements to the crisis of the official warnings sent by Carteron, saying: “You will not anger me, Carteron, I know what you intend and what you want to do. I am my heart Hadid and with you to the end.”
Mansour confirmed that the club paid Carteron’s late dues for last November, noting that the coach was getting checks for the value of his salary signed by the temporary committee that ran the club, and that the Zamalek board of directors addressed the administrative authority to change the signatures, and this matter took time.
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“Sky News Arabia” contacted Carteron to seek his opinion on the monthly salary crisis and his future with Zamalek, but the French coach refused to comment.
Sports critic Abdel Hamid Farraj commented to “Sky News Arabia” on the crisis of Carteron and Mansour, explaining: “I see that the coach’s position bears a kind of intransigence against Zamalek, especially since the coach gave more than one warning during the legal time to send his monthly salary. It has a clause stipulating that the monthly salary is paid within 15 days of the following month, and despite that, the coach has been sending warnings since the fourth of December.”
Farraj added: “It is clear from Carteron’s recent positions that he is putting pressure on the Zamalek administration because of the idea of appointing a general coach to the team. I consider this the intransigence of the French coach against Zamalek, and it is natural for the club’s management to demand the appointment of a general coach and another assistant after the departure of Osama Nabih and Ahmed Abdel-Maqsoud. “.
He continued, “The presence of an Egyptian element in the Zamalek apparatus is very necessary. The Egyptian coach can communicate with the players and convey their problems to the French coach, in addition to his technical role in consulting with Carteron, and I think that the coach must be cooperative in this matter.”
Regarding Mansour’s relationship with Carteron, the sports critic said: “I hope that you will witness a kind of professionalism. You must close the page of the past between them to focus on the future of Zamalek.”
Faraj concluded: “The coach must be held accountable in the aggregate and not by the piece. There are many competitions in front of Zamalek that will be enough to judge Carteron, and in general, as long as the club’s management pays the coach’s dues on time, there is no problem.”
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