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Another English legend to Saudi Arabia? John Terry may be joining Gerrard. How has he done in coaching so far?
The two English legends Steven Gerrard and John Terry may well be facing each other again, this time on the bench, as the former Chelsea stopper is being courted by Al-Shabab, a team that has failed to start the new league season at all.
The two English legends Steven Gerrard and John Terry may well be facing each other again, this time on the bench, as the former Chelsea stopper is being courted by Al-Shabab, a team that has failed to start the new league season at all.
Terry hasn’t got the opportunity as his former national teammate yet, having only worked as an assistant coach to Dean Smisth at Aston Villa (7 years – 125 games) and Leicester (2 months – 8 games).
In between, he then worked at Chelsea’s academy, where he went after the aforementioned Leicester engagement. He’s now in London since July 7, but he may very well move again as Al-Shabab are seeking his services.
The Saudi Arabian team has not started well at all and after 5 league rounds is only in 17th place with 2 points. So far, Al-Shabab has not invested as much in new reinforcements as the strongest four, slowly putting things right.
In fact, on Monday it brought Yannick Carrasco from Atlético Madrid into the attack, who already has experience of leaving for money. In fact, in the winter transfer period of 2018, he headed from Madrid to Chinese team DL Yifang for 30 million euros.
While today the transfer to Saudi Arabia is logical for the Belgian winger, given that he is already 30 years old, back then everyone was surprised when he had a great career that he practically killed by going to China.
Of course, back to Terry. The English legend would take over the helm from Dutch coach Marcel Keizer, who only joined the club at the end of July. But the owners are running out of patience with his services.
According to The Sun, Terry has already agreed terms with the club, so now they are waiting for everything to be put on paper and the contract to be officially signed.
the 42-year-old rookie coach will thus join Gerrard, who leads an Al-Ettifaq team that has stars Jordan Henderson, Georginio Wijnaldum and Moussa Dembélé in its squad. The Liverpool legend then keeps his team in 5th place with 10 points after 5 rounds played so far.
Source: The Sun, Transfermarkt