Despite winning the CAFCL, the Caf Super Cup and guiding Al Ahly SC to a third place finish in the Fifa Club World Cup, it seems Pitso Mosimane didn't do enough to please some sections of the Al Ahly hierarchy.
Al Ahly SC treasurer, Khaled Mortagy, believes current mentor, Marcel Koller, is way better than Mosimane.
Mortagy's comments come at a time when Al Ahly almost got knockout on match-day five of the Caf Chanpions League.
They were saved by Ronwen Williams last minute penalty save against Al Hilal Omdurman, whom they have to beat at home on match-day six to advance to the quarter-finals.
"As a fan, I see that Al Ahly has a very good team, and it has the best coach that came to Egypt since Manuel Jose, and his technical staff is exceptional," Mortagy said on King Fut as quoted by goal.comhttps://www.goal.com/en-za/news/koller-much-better-than-pitso-al-ahly-official-mortagy-downplays-mosimane-achievements-at-egyptian-giants/bltb5b258097ecf2ca0
"Pitso Mosimane was different, but Koller is much better than him. Mosimane achieved titles, but Al Ahly’s performances dropped massively during his last period.
Mosimane's training sessions were not good enough:
"There were no adequate training sessions with the South African coach. I don’t want to talk more about Mosimane’s negatives. He won us many trophies and we should respect him for that. He is one of the best coaches," he added.
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"Koller is a different school in many matters, including thought, and all the managers that took charge of Al Ahly were respectable.
"Marcel Koller among his specialties is to follow up on the youth team and he is focusing on this as we saw players from the youth team who participated with the first team lately."
One is left wondering whether Mortagy's comments would be the same if Mosimane was a European coach.
But that is a story for another day.
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