{"id":64273,"date":"2026-08-01T12:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T12:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/64273\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T12:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T12:20:08","slug":"two-months-ago-how-did-barcelona-begin-the-saga-of-yaisles-departure-from-al-ahly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/64273\/","title":{"rendered":"Two months ago: how did Barcelona begin the saga of Yaisle’s departure from Al-Ahly?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The German coach will lead Newcastle next season.<\/p>\n

Matthias Jaissle didn’t walk away from Al-Ahli on a whim. The German’s exit from the Saudi club was the result of a chain of events that stretches back roughly two months.<\/p>\n

Press reports confirmed that Jaissle tendered his resignation the day before yesterday, Thursday, to take charge of Newcastle United next season as successor to Eddie Howe.<\/p>\n

Catalan newspaper “Sport”<\/a> ran a report claiming Barcelona were the primary cause of Newcastle’s current turmoil, and it all kicked off two months ago.<\/p>\n

It began on 29 May, when Barcelona announced the signing of English winger Anthony Gordon from Newcastle for 70 million euros, plus 10 million in add-ons.<\/p>\n

Gordon’s exit hurt. He was the player Newcastle could have built their project around, especially after Swedish striker Alexander Isak left for Liverpool last summer.<\/p>\n

That transfer opened the door for others. Italian midfielder Sandro Tonali went first, snapped up by Tottenham for 108 million euros.<\/p>\n

Brazil’s Bruno Guimaraes, the other midfielder, is close to joining Arsenal for 90 million euros.<\/p>\n

With his stars leaving one after another, Eddie Howe saw no option but to step aside himself, citing the need for a break amid uncertainty over the team’s future next season.<\/p>\n

His departure sent Newcastle’s management hunting for a new coach, and the choice fell on Jaissle after the outstanding work he’d delivered with Al-Ahli over the past three years.<\/p>\n

The German led the Saudi side to the AFC Champions League Elite title for the first time in their history, then did it again for a second time, and added the Super Cup after a nine-year absence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The German coach will lead Newcastle next season. Matthias Jaissle didn’t walk away from Al-Ahli on a whim.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[15577,25911,366,25914,92,25912,1875,25913,3196,265],"class_list":["post-64273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-barcelona","tag-a-gordon","tag-al-ahli","tag-arsenal","tag-b-guimaraes","tag-barcelona","tag-m-jaissle","tag-newcastle-united","tag-s-tonali","tag-tottenham-hotspur","tag-transfers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}