The million-dollar deal and Reda Abdel Aal's transfer to Al-Ahly
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1 - Until 1992, players in Egypt, including players who played in the 1990 World Cup, earned between 15,000 and 25,000 Egyptian pounds per year.
Suddenly, in 1993, Al-Ahly raised the bar insanely high with the Reda Abdel Aal deal, which cost 650,000 pounds, excluding bonuses.
2 - Al-Ahly came back again and raised the bar insanely high in 1999 with the deal for left-back Saeed Abdel Aziz. It was the first time we heard about a million pounds in Egyptian football, and they called it a million-pound deal. It was the beginning of the real era of commissions, with the knowledge of the Olympic team's football director at the time, who was also Al-Ahly's goalkeeper.
3 - Al-Ahly kept quiet... No, of course not. They made another crazy leap in 2001 with the Reda Shehata deal.
After that, they began to open up the dollar market even more, bringing in players from Brazil like Gilbertson.
4 - Al-Ahly sat there for four years. Not knowing how to win the league and being a slap in the face to all teams, he made a terrifying leap in the 2005 season, snatching the contracts of Islam El-Shater from Zamalek, buying Mohamed Barakat from Al-Arabi of Qatar, and buying Ismaily's players, El-Nahhas, and others. He then went on to buy Ekouty, whom he forgot about, for $1 million.
The player was in a state of disgrace from the first match against Enyimba.
5- This club continued, without accountability or oversight, raising the bar and setting crazy prices, until it became the first club to pay 35 million pounds for a player named Salah Mohsen, followed by Hussein El-Shahat.
And there are many details that would take a long time to explain, from snatching El-Dhawy from El-Masry to this moment.
This club has caused corruption in sports, the greed of brokers, and crazy prices.
Al-Ahly, because it has known and unknown sources of funding, has continued to sabotage player prices in order to have the purchasing power to overpower all the popular clubs that have disappeared because of Al-Ahly. The league has become a corporate league, and when Pyramids comes along with it Al-Ahly's purchasing power is in vain.
History shows that this club deliberately mispriced Egyptian players, aiming to sabotage, launder money, create a brokerage market, and other details that led to a collapse in the player market. We've been hearing crazy numbers because of the presence of the Red Devils.
Aren't you ashamed?