Doha: With their eyes on a better show in the next Qatar Stars League season, Al Sailiyah will begin preparations on July 10 before travelling to attend a foreign training camp in Tunisia.
The coaching staff and management have made great efforts to prepare the team optimally, including player transfers.
Al Sailiya recently signed Cameroonian player Alou Efoulo from Saudi side Al Ta’awon.
Sami Trabelsi, head coach of Al Sailiyah emphasised his dissatisfaction with the results achieved by the team in the 2015/2016 season. The team finished in the seventh place in the Qatar Stars League table with 36 points, adding that it was possible to achieve better results.
However, the team squandered a lot of points in the league, with draws and losses, and the reason for this is some obstacles faced by the team throughout the Qatar stars League season.
The most important of these obstacles was the exit of Abdulkader Elias in January after he ended his loan spell.
Trabelsi continued saying, “Sayyaf Karbi’s injury made a significant negative impact on the team results, and in my opinion if Abdulkader Elias continued did Sayyaf Karbi was not injured we were going to finish the league among the top four, because we were not far away from the top four in terms of points.”
The head coach, pointed out that the team was not lucky in the last season, where he encountered some trouble and difficulties. He hopes to avoid these obstacles in the 2016/2017 season, which will be more difficult.
Al Sailiya recently acquired Cameroonian player Alou Efoulo from Saudi Club Al Ta’awon, speaking about the new signing Trabelsi added, “We followed the player with his former club in Saudi Arabia, Al Ta’awon. He was one of the influential players and we hope he has a positive impact for us in the next season.”
He stressed that he wanted the trio of Fawzi Ayesh, Dragos Grigore and Raoul Loe to stay at the club. Ayesh made a fantastic impact in the last season, where he scored 14 goals. Defensive duo, Grigore and Loe were also in superb form in their first season with Sailiyah.
Speaking about player contracts, Sami Trabelsi said: “There are some players who we hope to reach an agreement with to move to the next phase, including Jarallah Al-Marri. We also hope for the continuation of the three players including Karim Ali, Sultan Al Kuwari and Hamad Al-Obeidi, who played for the team on loan from Al Rayyan club in the last season.”
The Tunisian tactician who renewed his contract with Sailiyah for three more seasons said: “Renewing the contract casts more responsibility on me and I appreciate the mutual support provided to me by the club board. I hope to provide a better performance next season.”
The Peninsula
