The Al Jazira Herald
Squad5 Oct 2026
Real improvement from Mamadou Coulibaly at Al Jazira
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Mamadou Coulibaly is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Kristjan Asllani 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 Jazira this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages eat 316% of everything Al Jazira earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Match3 Oct 2026
A bad afternoon for Al Jazira against Baniyas
0‑2 to Baniyas, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
No hiding place for Ali Khaseif
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ali Khaseif, and the manager let it.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Malcom was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 18. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Al Jazira
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Milson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Player of the month: Malcom
Four weeks in which nobody in the division did his job better. The award goes on a shelf and the player goes back into the side, which is the order Al Jazira prefer.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑2 Mahmoud Abdulrahman left the room before anybody could ask which.
In brief
- The dugout Al Jazira pick somebody else ahead of Abdalla Ramadan
- Looking ahead Marcus Meloni faces his old club
- The dugout Ravil Tagir does not fit this one