One of Zamalek's top stars has reportedly lambasted the club for their failure to conduct contract talks in a professional manner ahead of their crunch CAF Confederations Cup clash against Stellenbosch FC.
The two sides will have it all to play for in the 2nd leg following a goalless draw in the first leg in Cape Town.
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The Egyptian powerhouses will be favourites playing at home but will be hoping the attention is focused on the on-pitch action instead of uncertainty off the field.
Egyptian publication Ahram Online reported that Zizo, whose contract is expiring at the end of the season, had signed an alleged pre-contract agreement with rivals Al-Ahly.
With these rumours circulating, the club decided to drop Sayed from the matchday squad ahead of the clash.
Zizo denied any transfer rumours and said he was waiting for the club to meet his financial demands before his contract is renewed.
"I’ve not signed for any club, inside or outside Egypt. If someone has my signature, let them show it publicly,” the forward wrote on his official Facebook account.
Journalist Hani Hathout recently revealed a phone call with Ahmed Sayed Zizo stating the reasons that the player has not extended his contract with Zamalek so far, amid talk about a free transfer to Al Ahly at the end of the season.
"I am extremely frustrated and can't believe the treatment I am receiving from Zamalek officials," Zizo reportedly told Hathout according to yssscores.
"My father is a respectable person who was behind the extension of my contract twice with the club before, and he didn't receive a single pound. The problem lies in the brokerage that happens in other deals, and everything gets leaked after every meeting with the management."
"The problem is not about money because, simply, I extended my contract with Zamalek despite the change of the board of directors 7 times, and I did not ask for 60 million (egyptian pounds) per season as Hisham Nasr stated. However, what happened is that my father informed him about the club's ability to compensate me financially after rejecting an offer from the Saudi club Neom, and he did not respond to him convincingly."
"The player informed me that the workers said in the past period that the Zamalek management had obtained a loan of 200 million to extend his contract, and Ahmed Hossam Mido, a member of the club's planning committee, was attacking him in the stands, saying, 'Is this the one who wants all these millions?'"
"I have been asking the Zamalek management to extend my contract for 7 months, and I was advising Hussein Labib, the club president, on how to deal with my father, and I told Shikabala, 'Please, deal with the management to extend my contract.'"
"I swear, the offer from Zamalek is the least of the offers presented to me, whether inside Egypt or outside."
Zizo added that he would wait until the end of the club's Confederations Cup campaign before he makes a final decision on his future.
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The Egyptian side are defending Confederations Cup champions and will be hoping to win back-to-back continental titles in the first time in their history.
