Marwane Saâdane

Central Defender - Al-Fateh
27 Aug 2026
Thursday
Process

Marked for Marwane Saâdane

4 Edition

The Al-Fateh Gazette

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Vintage Mourad Batna — 8.11

At 36 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.11, and nobody on the pitch better.

Squad

Ali Al-Hussain gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Ali Al-Hussain has just signed for Al-Fateh, and for once the answer mattered.

Market

Al-Fateh sign Ali Al-Hussain for $510.0K

The paperwork is done: Ali Al-Hussain joins from Al-Fayha in a deal worth $510.0K. Now comes the harder part.

Market

Malek Al-Abadalmanam is a Al-Fateh player

The fee is $380.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Al-Fayha drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Ahmed Fawzi

Al-Fateh asked and Baniyas said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Rayyan Enad 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-Fateh this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

Adrian Šemper 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.

Squad

Marwane Saâdane falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Match

Al-Fateh and Al-Faisaly take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The Al-Fateh Gazette

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Mohamed Al-Sarnoukh agrees terms with Al-Nahda

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Al-Fateh people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Transfer targets

Al-Fateh agree $380.0K for Malek Al-Abadalmanam

The clubs have shaken hands with Al-Fayha; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.

Squad

A move Rayyan Enad 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. Rayyan Enad is living that version at Al-Fateh, and it tends to show in the first month.

Transfer targets

Ali Al-Hussain due for a Al-Fateh medical

Everything agreed with Al-Fayha, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Market

Al-Fateh sell Fahad Al-Zubaidi for $2.7M

Fahad Al-Zubaidi has left for Al-Nassr in a $2.7M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Market

Al-Fateh pay Al-Fayha $1.0M for a proper upgrade

Al-Fayha did not want to sell and the number is why they did. $1.0M for Rayyan Enad, and the expectation that arrives with him is the kind no amount of settling-in period softens.

Market

Al-Fateh turn down Al-Jeel for Habib Al-Watyan

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

Tempers go at Al-Fateh

Mourad Batna was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

The dugout

No hiding place for Wilfried Kanga

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Wilfried Kanga, and the manager let it.

In brief