The Al-Njoom Post
Squad11 Oct 2027
Montassar Toumi damages knee ligaments — 135 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 135 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad11 Oct 2027
A fracture rules Salman Al-Rashid out for 31 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Al-Njoom will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Faris Al-Ghamdi in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Al-Njoom this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Thabiso Msane wants to go home
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Al-Njoom can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
The dugout11 Oct 2027
A promise honoured at Al-Njoom
Something was said to Faris Al-Ghamdi and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
The dugout11 Oct 2027
Mohammed Al-Helali gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Looking ahead11 Oct 2027
A reunion for Omar Al-Muzayil
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Al-Shoulla in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
The dugout11 Oct 2027
Thabiso Msane knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Thabiso Msane trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market11 Oct 2027
The Rayan Al-Ghamdi question follows Al-Njoom around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Rayan Al-Ghamdi’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
In brief
- Market Al-Njoom and Hamad Al-Ghamdi are talking past each other
- Market The shop window has Thabiso Msane in it
- Market Mohammed Asiri leaves for nothing