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Diego Maradona continues to demand more funds at Al Wasl
The Argentine told reporters he would stand by his comments last week and was confident increased funding would help bring glory to the Dubai-based outfit
By Kosuke Kato
In response to last week’s outbursts, where he threatened to leave unless he was allowed more money to spend, Maradona refused to apologise and was adamant he needed increased funds to bring success to his team.
“I want to be able to compete, I want to be able to fight for the top spots, and this is basically my right and I still stick by my opinion,” he told reporters.
“We talked about some of the challenges facing Al Wasl team, we’re trying to find solutions to benefit the team.”
It was reported Maradona held a meeting with Al Wasl chairman Marwan Bin Bayat on Sunday, and the Argentine legend was confident of leading the club to the summit of the UAE Pro-League in the future.
“I support Mr Marwan and I know that the Board of Directors have certain ambitions and we want to help him achieve these objectives," he said.
"I have 34, 35 years of experience in football and there isn’t a problem that I haven’t faced and I have a lot to bring to Al Wasl as far as experience is concerned and that’s what was discussed and there was a mutual agreement of the objectives set for next season.”
Al-Wasl are currently fifth in the UAE Pro-League, nine points behind leaders Al Ain.
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"But, we came through. Obviously there were a lot of changes so it's good to get the result.
"Belgium are a very, very strong side who are going to be really good in the future. Vincent [Kompany] told me about them and said that they were coming good and I totally agree with him."
"[Gary] Cahill I suppose is slightly more of a concern for me because it is a jaw injury. We're desperately hoping the CT scan doesn't show any fracture and it's just going to be a bruising situation, which will be bad enough, but won't stop him taking part in the tournament. As far as John's [Terry] concerned he felt his hamstring a little bit. Again it wasn't a major thing when he came off but we still need to scan it just to be 100 per cent sure."
Suffice to say, if Cahill has broken his jaw, he won't play any part in the tournament.
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