Menezes

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Marked for Menezes

40 Edition

The El Dakhleya Courier

3 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad3 May 2027

A fracture rules Hélder Ribeiro out for 129 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason El Dakhleya will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match3 May 2027

El Dakhleya are in real trouble now

Position 16, 29 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Market3 May 2027

Mohamed Abdelsalam hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what El Dakhleya can pretend not to have heard.

In brief

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32 Edition

The El Dakhleya Courier

8 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match8 Mar 2027

El Dakhleya are in real trouble now

Position 16, 28 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Squad8 Mar 2027

A fracture rules Nader Ramadan out for 23 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason El Dakhleya will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market8 Mar 2027

Ahmed Sayed Gharib puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at El Dakhleya, and it is not being withdrawn.

The terraces8 Mar 2027

16th and falling: the mood at El Dakhleya has gone

28 points and a position everybody in the ground can do the arithmetic on. The songs have stopped being about the team and started being about surviving, which is a different noise entirely.

Squad8 Mar 2027

Sherif Dabo stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Sherif Dabo and El Dakhleya agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad8 Mar 2027

Sherif Dabo 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 El Dakhleya this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad8 Mar 2027

Words at El Dakhleya training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexander Jakobsen is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Match6 Mar 2027

A bad afternoon for El Dakhleya against Petrojet

1‑2 to Petrojet, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Market8 Mar 2027

Talks stall between El Dakhleya and Achraf Lazaar

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

In brief

18 Edition

The El Dakhleya Courier

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad30 Nov 2026

Nader Ramadan breaks a bone — 122 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 122 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market30 Nov 2026

Ahmed Sayed Gharib hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what El Dakhleya can pretend not to have heard.

Squad30 Nov 2026

Sherif Dabo 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 El Dakhleya this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

15 Edition

The El Dakhleya Courier

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad9 Nov 2026

Amedée Mouanda breaks a bone — 19 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 19 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad9 Nov 2026

Mahmoud El Alamy: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” El Dakhleya have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad9 Nov 2026

Tempers go at El Dakhleya

Sherif Dabo 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.

Player ratings9 Nov 2026

Sherif Dabo runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad9 Nov 2026

Mohamed Abdelsalam 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.

Match7 Nov 2026

Petrojet take the points off El Dakhleya

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

In brief

10 Edition

The El Dakhleya Courier

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad5 Oct 2026

Guillermo Pozos keeps El Dakhleya in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Amedée Mouanda breaks a bone — 54 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 54 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

No sign of nerves from El Sayed Fathy at 20 — 7.90

The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. El Sayed Fathy did not need any: 7.90, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Abdelnasr Mohamed says El Dakhleya went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Sherif Dabo 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 El Dakhleya this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The terraces5 Oct 2026

The crowd has taken to El Sayed Fathy

At 20 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match3 Oct 2026

El Dakhleya get the job done against Haras El Hodoud

A 1‑0 win over Haras El Hodoud, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

Achraf Lazaar shuts the door

Defensive actions: 16, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Market5 Oct 2026

Experience through the door at El Dakhleya

Menezes arrives at 37 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.

In brief