Western newspapers have reported that Al Ittihad are signing Portugal’s Nuno Santo, who will take over Al Ittihad’s training starting in the new season.
The Portuguese newspaper Ebola reported this as soon as it became known through the media center of the Al-Ittihad Club.
Wolverhampton’s Arabic Twitter account also congratulated former coach Nuno Santo on his new contract, wishing him well. Al-Ittihad have officially announced the signing of Nuno Santo, who will replace the Romanian Cosmin, whose contract expired at the end of the season.
Santo’s contract with Al Ittihad runs until 2024, when it was signed in Dubai in the presence of federation president Anmar Al-Khaili, his deputy Issam Kaaqi and chief football officer Hamid Al-Balawi.
Although the negotiations with Santo were long, they were smooth and flexible on both sides, as there was a desire between them to establish a special partnership in accordance with clear and specific goals.
The Portuguese coach is looking for new experiences to take on the challenge to add to his training career, while federation officials have confirmed that the main goal of this deal is to achieve a championship.
For his part, Nuno Santo expressed his joy at the start of a new experience during his training career at a club the size of Al Ittihad, where the coach watched the team’s previous matches to learn about the players’ abilities. .
The administration has also given Santo a dossier of foreign players due to be contracted this summer as the federations target three deals for foreign professionals during the current Mercato to join Grohe, Hegazy, Coronado, Marinho and Hamdallah.