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Malaga have a tough task facing them as they head to Santander for their first league game of the season against Racing on Saturday. However, things took a slight turn for the better on Friday when club president Sheikh Abdullah Al-Thani eventually
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...the end of the month. Club president Sheikh Abdullah Al-Thani is conscious of the growing unease around the club with fans directing their anger at him for his inactivity, refusing to sign off on the departures of several players which would have ... eased the paralysis around the club. As SUR in English reported last week, Al-Thani went on the charm offensive on Twitter (and later in a club statement) assuring those connected to the club that "everything will be resolved soon". However, this week, ... Federico Ricca (to Bruges), the sheikh's response was: "There are a lot of agents pressuring me to sign off immediately but I'm always looking for better conditions." However, Al-Thani promised that there would be movement imminently: "It's true that
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Following a summer of perceived inactivity, Malaga CF club president Sheikh Abdullah Al-Thani went on a charm offensive this week amid growing discontent among the fanbase. At the time of going to print, with just eight days until the start of the ... Malaga were unable to register any new players having surpassed the league wage cap. This is still currently the case. With this in mind, Al-Thani took to Twitter on Wednesday to appeal to the fans directly (it began with the words "My message to ... Luis Hernández, currently missing through injury, was not for sale. Official statement Al-Thani's comments were followed up on Thursday by an official club statement, echoing the sheikh's sentiments. The sheikh, it said, "knows the great history
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Sheikh Abdullah Al-Thani. Frustrated by developments at the club, especially since relegation last summer, supporters' groups called the protest "against the terrible management and collapse of Malaga CF at the hands of president Al-Thani".
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...clause. Club president Sheikh Abdullah Al-Thani, however, refused to sign off on the deal and made a counteroffer which has been rejected. An offer from another club was mentioned although that appears to have been a smokescreen. Villarreal are said to
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Malaga club president Sheikh Abdullah Al-Thani has sent a special consultant to analyse the state of affairs at the club following the side's failure to achieve promotion back to La Liga. This is not the first time that the sheikh has employed an
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Abdullah Al-Thani. The judge, Ramón Jiménez León, ruled that the ownership of almost 97 per cent of the club's shares, until now under the control of Al-Thani, be passed back to NAS Spain - a company jointly owned by the sheikh and the hotel group with 51 ... this deal occurred at a time when the club had amassed huge debt following its run in the Champions League and needed funds to rebuild the squad. However, Al-Thani and his representatives argue that the group failed to comply with the conditions of ... the contract, thereby rendering it invalid. The trial, which has been subjected to several delays, finally resumed in February and now a judgement has been reached. Al-Thani and his legal team have 20 days to appeal the decision and are highly
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...contract expiring in June 2020. Though a loss to the squad, his wages were one of the highest in the group so will give Malaga room to manouevre in the transfer market - when Al-Thani signs off on it.
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Malaga are once again waiting for the green light from president Sheikh Abdullah Al-Thani, this time to complete the loan signing of Stoichkov. The attacking midfielder, born Juan Diego Molina but known by the name of the former Barcelona legend,
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The long-delayed 'BlueBay case' resumed on at the Ciudad de Justicia in Malaga on Thursday with Malaga CF president Sheikh Abdullah Al-Thani facing questions from lawyers representing BlueBay. The hotel group is demanding that the conditions of a ... the time, Al-Thani insisted that he knew nothing about this, nor the arrival of Gonzalo Hervás and his team to run the club. Al-Thani also denied knowledge of the existence of NAS Spain, the company which controlled the club's shares for a period of ... time. When presented with documents which purportedly showed a written agreement, Al-Thani said: "I have never seen these documents and I never signed them." He went on to say that at the time of the deal, in 2012, that he never authorised any such