Moroccan Raja in Turmoil: 7 Players Leave and Questions about Coach’s Future

Moroccan Raja is threatened with losing its most prominent stars in Mercato next summer, due to the financial crisis that it has been suffering from for 5 years, which greatly affected its results.

The “Green Team” was unable to extend the contracts of a number of its most prominent players, due to its inability to pay their outstanding dues for years, and the large number of files of its disputes with the Moroccan Football Association, in addition to its technical problems that it is experiencing due to its disappointing results.

In this regard, Al-Araby Al-Jadeed obtained information from a source close to the management of the “Al-Akhdar” club, on Sunday, through which he confirmed that 7 players will leave the team in the summer transfer phase, after their contracts expire on June 30, and the matter is related to goalkeeper Anas Al-Zeniti. And Marwan Al-Hedhoudi, Muhammad Al-Nahiri, Hamza Khaba, Abdel-Ilah Al-Hafezi, Zakaria Hadraf and Zakaria Al-Wardi.

And the same source continued, speaking to Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, on Sunday, that a number of these players had received offers from abroad, in order to go through a new professional experience, especially goalkeeper Al-Zaniti and Hamza Khaba, who are on the verge of moving to one of the Gulf leagues.

On the other hand, the green team will return a group of loaned players to some Moroccan clubs, most notably Gaya Merbah and Mohamed Saboul, who are currently playing in the ranks of Ittihad Tangiers, and the Gabonese, Axel Mayi, who is loaned to the Olympic Asfi team, and Osama Skahal, who joined the team. The new Hassan Defense in the winter Mercato.

On the other hand, ambiguity surrounds the future of the Tunisian coach, Munther Al-Kabeer, with the Moroccan Raja team, after voices were raised calling for his dismissal from his position at the head of the technical staff of the team, against the backdrop of the exit from the quarter-finals of the African Champions League football championship at the hands of Al-Ahly of Egypt, and the loss of competition for Moroccan league title.