But before the medical check-up, a friend from the national team, a certain Mohamed Salah from Liverpool FC, calls the player, talks him into a transfer to Prague, and the player takes his word for it. He will eventually sign with Aston Villa in England. The then twenty-three-year-old attacker is now an experienced supporter of the third team of the Egyptian league, Al-Ahly SC.
Young wingback from Ismaily
Since the failed transfer, Slavia has not even tried to sign any player from the land of the pharaohs and pyramids. These days, according to the Egyptian website Alwatan News, Slavia is interested in the 17-year-old defender Ibrahim El-Nagaawy, who is essentially unknown in Europe, from the Ismaily club, which can be considered a medium-sized club in the Egyptian top competition. The young right-back has been playing for the senior team since the current season, he has five starts here and added one in the cup. According to the Egyptians, they sent a sum of 350,000 dollars for the player, who, according to the Transfermarkt website, is worth 150,000 euros. In my eyes, we are definitely not talking about reinforcements for Mr. Trpišovský’s A-team, but rather for the B team led by Mr. Jelínek. Slavia is used to looking for its hopes basically everywhere – in the past they managed to drag goalkeeper Petrenko from Leverkusen, Okonkwo or Alekse Božev from Bulgaria, and I could go on.
Salah’s phone call
Therefore, we cannot talk about a similar situation as in the year we started the article about. At that time, Trézéguet played for the Turkish club Kasimpasa, where the people of Prague were willing to send an amount of around 150 million crowns. And their first season in England suggested they knew why. Trézéguet scored six goals in the Premier League in his first season at Villa Park, but then his performances had a downward trend, he eventually lost his place in the team and went back to Turkey, where he again performed the performances that got him noticed in Prague. Time will tell how things pan out with this young defenseman, but this interest suggests that the eyes of the state champions’ scouting department are pretty much everywhere. Egypt is certainly not a frequent transfer line – the last time Baník’s former captain, Brazilian Ewerton, traveled on this route.
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