The Al-Fateh Gazette
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
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.
Market24 Aug 2026
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.
Market24 Aug 2026
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 targets24 Aug 2026
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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
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 dugout24 Aug 2026
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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
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.
Match22 Aug 2026
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
- Squad No place for Ali Al-Hussain in the new shape
- The dugout Half-satisfied: Sami Al-Sultan on the draw
- The dugout Al-Fateh pick somebody else ahead of Othman Al-Othman