The Ismaily Courier
Squad3 Aug 2026
A move Victor Adeboyejo would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Victor Adeboyejo is living that version at Ismaily, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Éric Traoré signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Éric Traoré commits to Ismaily for another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Ismaily
Mohamed Hassan and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Ismaily
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Éric Traoré was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Ismaily rebuffed over Hossam Abdelmaguid
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Ludogorets have kept their man, and Ismaily go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market3 Aug 2026
24 months and counting on Mohamed Hassan
Still no offer on the table, and Mohamed Hassan’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan move for Karim Fouad is in the works
Ismaily have made the call to Al Ahly. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Ismaily try to borrow Samuel Ezekiel
Ikorodu City have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Market3 Aug 2026
Ismaily and Victor Adeboyejo are talking past each other
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
In brief
- Market Mahmoud Wahid brings the grey hairs Ismaily lacked
- The dugout Ibrahim El Nagaawy knocks on the manager’s door
- Market Victor Adeboyejo joins Ismaily on a free