At one point, the situation became so tense that, according to the Saudi media, the club's leaders threatened to resign collectively if they were not approved to replace the coach.
Former Hajduk strategist Damir Burić was fired in Saudi Arabia after a months-long, somewhat bizarre administrative saga in which the Abha administration desperately wanted to dismiss him due to a series of failures, but for weeks was unable to obtain permission from the local regulatory authorities for such a move.