Apparently this is an interview that was held with Ghaly.
Transcript of it, taken from another site.
after the hey hi , how are you doing etc....intro
Interviewer: im sure you've got a perspective on what'd happend with the incident of throwing your shirt your reaction .. i will give you the space to talk as you please now.. please go ahead
Ghaly: before i do start, Please note that prior to my coming on your show , you failed to mention to your audience that i was subbed after having come on as a sub....
interviewer cuts him off : so what ? .....( interview saying so what to the fact that Ghaly was subbed NOT to the fact he - the interviewer- did not mention Ghaly was taken off after coming as a sub )
Ghaly: well you say so what but i am a player and also a human .. i have feelings and it wasnt easy to subbed after only 30 minutes after I've come on as a sum myself. Also, if you follow the EPL and the Spurs, you will see that sometimes i play and do a good job then the next game i dont even make it as a sub.other time , i do really good and even score a goal and get rated highly but then the follwing game i am not even a sub, so in away this was partially a build up to what'd happened yesterday ( rovers game )
interviewer cuts him off again: well Hossam, EVEN IF you were subbed . EVEN IF you were subbed after having come on as a sub. there is always right and wrong , Hossam.. you need to start by admitting you WERE wrong
Ghaly: oh of sure.. for sure what i did was wrong
interviewer: ok now we're talking
Ghaly: but honestly i am and was not expecting you'd come after me strongly like this
Interviewer: no no dont get it wrong.. all we're saying is we in egypt are very happy with your experience in Europe. we feel glad our boys make it to Europe. even better, we feel alot prouder when our boys make it to English League, a league that i would call the best in the world- if not, then its the 2nd or 3rd best in the world, therefore, we do hope for the number of egyptians abroad grows but i dont think it would with a bad representation ; you know this does give a bad name to Egyptians abroad since you represent not only yourself but also your country. dont you agree ?
Ghaly: i wouldnt call it a bad perception of egyptians . not that i make it my business to do wrong. i just felt we had a good season and i did my part to the best of what i could but this happened ( i think he was referring to feeling treated unfairly being sidelined etc... )
Interviwer welcomes a guest ( an icon/legend in egyptian football)
Guest: Hossam, son, i dont follow Englishj football a lot but i can tell you when i do watch european football including to the Spurs i look forward to watching our kids perform well. i take pride in our kids playing abroad. I've watched some games for tottenham where you were in the starting 11 or even came on as s ub. i still recall when you had lost 4 teeth in one of the games. this was really brave of you. your coach did not even take you off. you got stitched up and came back on the pitch. people praiused you and your bravery that day didnt they ? .. here we take pride in what you've done.. you're a man and swallowed your pain for the game. so it does disappoint us when a reaction such as what yours was come from soneone like you. ( in other words, you're better and bigger than that ).
GUEST continues... Hossam you never know what you will do after you retire one day. you might end up going into coaching and you WILL one of these days have to sub the sub.. you dont know whats in the mind of a coach in the heat of the game. disagreement with a coach isnt for the public to watch. there's a locker room ..there's the one-one conversation with the coach in his office. there are different way to voice displeasure other than showing that in public
Ghaly : sir i am not disagreeing with you at all. my reaction wasnt right and i am at fault. but like i said to Shobeir ( the host / main interviewer ) that it confuses and annoys me that i am out of a certain game or not starting a game after I've done really good the game before. all for no apparent reason. i just find out i am not in the team for a particular game for no reason. it adds to the misery that some players will always find their place even after having just come back from inury and are not perfectly match fit. they still make it to the starting 11. I just feel treated unjustly only bcz i know even critics know i just did well the previous game. i feel i do my best when i met. i do have my bad games and i dont clmplain when not picked but when i've just done my best in a game and dont make it to the next not bcx i am injurted but bcz another player had just come back from injury, i cant he;p but to feel bad and treated badly .. it builds up some bitter feelings in me that i am not liked by the coach and only get picked bcz his #1 , #2 etc.. pic isnt available.
Host/Interviewer : hossam, has any decsions/punishment been taken against you after the game ?
Ghaly: nothing so far other than the one decision instantly taken that i wont be playing the City game
interviewer: will the decision/punishment against you going to come from the coach or the Club's management or even the FA ?
Ghaly: i believe it wil be a joint discussion between the management and the coach first then the verdict.
Interviewer: has you offered any aplogies yet ? to your coach, the management or your teammates ?
Ghaly: no , not yet. i did go today though to get treated for a minor stiffness in my thigh ( spasm ) .
Interviewer: did you have a chance to talk to Jol ?
Ghaly: no i didnt get to meet him
Intrerviewer: did he not make it to training for some reason ? or why was it that you didnt get to meet him then ?
Ghaly: no , i think he had a busy press day. the man, with all honesty, spoke good of me. he had nothing bad to say about me to the press . he said ( Jol ) thayt i am good kid. i am well behaved and layed back and not a trouble maker and was surprised and confused as to why and what drove Ghaly to do what he did. I have to say that my only defense and argument about my actions is that I've been feeling i was not treated justly and emotions kinda built up but i can not say that what i did was right or the manner i did what i did was nice. i know my reactions was real harsh and wasnt calculated properly.
interviewer: let me ask you then.. do you think after this incedent that this is it for you with tottenham ? haven you seen the last of you with the spurs? or do you think a proper punishment will do ?
Ghaly : i honestly dont know.no idea what will happen to my future with the spurs. i have to say thgoug that out of my displeasure as of late i did ask to leave about 2 weeks ago. my agent did officially speak to the spurs management and voiced his and my concerns about playing time . i think i played close to 30 games this season ( starter and a sub alltoghether) all of which i was played out of position ; something that isnt too comfortable for me. no chance to show the type of player i really am.
interviewer: do you have any offers on the table from other EPL teams ?
Ghaly: no, nothing yet
interviewer: how about outside of England from any European team ?
Ghaly: well, management still havent agreed to letting me. i mean i, from one side, and my agent from the other side asked a few times for me to leave but so far they dont want me to go. last time we spoke was abouyt two games ago when we my agent asked them to let me go but their answer was still NO..
Inrerviewer: so your agent might be listening to offers now ?
Ghaly: i am sure he is
interviewer: how about mido ?
Ghaly: i dont know any details to tell you the truth but i think Mido asked to leave after the january break so he may end up leaving at the end of the season
Interviewer: so basically you do not know whether you are leaving or not.. or even if Mido is leaving or not ?
Ghaly: nothing for sure.. no i dont know yet
Interviewer: well, i sincerely hope this will turn out ok for you. we do wish you the best of luck. we love you here and you are a representation of egyptian football. all the best for you .. all the best for all of our internationals playing abroad. thank you for being with you
Ghaly: thank you sir
Personally, I think it's a load of bollocks, as I don't think he would refer to him self as 'Ghaly', plus I doubt he would say that He and Mido have both handed in their transfer requests.
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