Cristiano Ronaldo is about to have a brand new membership boss within the coming days with Marc Brys rising because the doubtless successor to Stefano Pioli at Al Nassr.
Pioli is poised to take over at Fiorentina, and has reportedly reached a verbal settlement with the Viola.
That can create a emptiness at Al Nassr that may very well be stuffed by Brys, in response to studies in his native Belgium.
The 63-year-old has earlier expertise of teaching in Saudi Arabia in a well-travelled profession that has additionally seen him oversee groups in Belgium and the Netherlands.
🔴 Marc Brys, sélectionneur des Lions indomptables, intéresse fortement Al Nassr, le membership saoudien dans lequel évolue Cristiano Ronaldo. 🦁🇨🇲
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Success after disrupted begin to life in Cameroon
He’s at present coach of Cameroon after driving out a storm that noticed him caught in the course of a row between Cameroon FA (Fecafoot) president Samuel Eto’o and the nation’s Ministry of Sport (Minsep).
Eto’o needed a high-profile boss to switch Rigobert Tune in 2023 whereas Minsep, who pay the wages of the nationwide group coach, appointed the beforehand unknown Brys.
In a interval of nice instability, Brys was fired after which reinstated inside 48 hours.
Since then he has gained the respect of all by main Cameroon in 12 video games, profitable seven and drawing 5.
The way in which he carried out himself throughout the disagreement between Fecafoot and Minsep is believed to have impressed Al Nassr chiefs with Brys’ passive strategy a great match for working in an authoritarian state.
Ronaldo dedicated to Al Nassr
Ought to Brys get the job, he could have Ronaldo at his disposal within the subsequent Professional League season.
After being linked with Saudi rivals Al Hilal, in addition to a short-term transfer to one of many competing groups within the Membership World Cup, Ronaldo has stated he’ll stay with Al Nassr subsequent time period.
He’ll hope to assist the Riyadh membership to their first main trophy since he joined in 2022 from Manchester United.
The 40-year-old has completed because the main scorer within the Professional League in every of the previous two seasons. In whole he has scored 99 objectives in 105 appearances for Al Nassr.
Ronaldo completed the season on a excessive, scoring in a penalty shoot-out as Portugal received the Nations League by beating Spain within the closing.