Grendo

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Marked for Grendo

9 Edition

The Ghazl El Mahalla Sentinel

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

Mory Touré goes up and wins it — 7.80

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.80 for the rest of it.

Match26 Sep 2026

Still nobody has beaten Ghazl El Mahalla

The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Emmanuel Ntim 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.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Tempers go at Ghazl El Mahalla

Bassam Walid 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.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Ghazl El Mahalla count the cost of losing Ashraf Magdy

35 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Match26 Sep 2026

Mory Touré rescues a point for Ghazl El Mahalla

It needed Mory Touré to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Smouha, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

In brief

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8 Edition

The Ghazl El Mahalla Sentinel

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad21 Sep 2026

A one-man rearguard from Amer Amer

There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

A defender's goal wins it for Ghazl El Mahalla — 7.46

1 for Mory Touré, marked 7.46, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

Nobody could get near Rached Arfaoui

Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match19 Sep 2026

6 unbeaten for Ghazl El Mahalla

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Ghazl El Mahalla did not have in the autumn.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Words at Ghazl El Mahalla training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Emmanuel Ntim 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.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Bassam Walid 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 Ghazl El Mahalla this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The terraces21 Sep 2026

The crowd has taken to Mory Touré

At 23 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.

Match19 Sep 2026

Ghazl El Mahalla see off Wadi Degla

Three points for Ghazl El Mahalla, 1‑0 the final word against Wadi Degla in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad21 Sep 2026

The manager makes an example of Bolbol

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief

  • Player ratings The pass was always on for Grendo
  • Player ratings The referee tires of Ahmed Jahouh
7 Edition

The Ghazl El Mahalla Sentinel

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

Hugo Weckmann scores twice — 8.20

Two goals and a mark of 8.20 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

Nobody could get near Rached Arfaoui

Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match12 Sep 2026

Ghazl El Mahalla see off Ismaily

Three points for Ghazl El Mahalla, 2‑1 the final word against Ismaily in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Tempers go at Ghazl El Mahalla

Ahmed Hamed Shousha 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 terraces14 Sep 2026

The crowd has taken to Hugo Weckmann

At 22 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.

Match12 Sep 2026

Ghazl El Mahalla are at home on the road

3 straight away victories. Sides that win away are usually sides that can defend and can counter, and the table has begun to reflect what those journeys have earned.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Words at Ghazl El Mahalla training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Youssef Fawzi 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.

Squad14 Sep 2026

No hiding place for Youssef Fawzi

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

Squad14 Sep 2026

Ahmed El Aash left out for tactical reasons at Ghazl El Mahalla

The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.

In brief

6 Edition

The Ghazl El Mahalla Sentinel

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings7 Sep 2026

Age has not caught Grendo yet — 8.00

At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.00 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Market7 Sep 2026

Ahmed Etman 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 Ghazl El Mahalla, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match5 Sep 2026

6 goals as Ghazl El Mahalla and Haras El Hodoud go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Ghazl El Mahalla and Haras El Hodoud, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Words at Ghazl El Mahalla training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Emmanuel Ntim 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.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Ahmed Hamed Shousha 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 Ghazl El Mahalla this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Ahmed Jahouh 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.

In brief

5 Edition

The Ghazl El Mahalla Sentinel

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Market31 Aug 2026

Youssef Ahmed Hassan asks to leave Ghazl El Mahalla

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Match29 Aug 2026

Ghazl El Mahalla make it 3 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Ghazl El Mahalla have 3 straight wins of it.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Ghazl El Mahalla

Ahmed Hamed Shousha 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.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Emmanuel Ntim 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.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Ghazl El Mahalla count the cost of losing Ashraf Magdy

67 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Match29 Aug 2026

Hugo Weckmann sends Ghazl El Mahalla past El Masry

It finished 2‑1, and it was Hugo Weckmann’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Ghazl El Mahalla.

In brief

3 Edition

The Ghazl El Mahalla Sentinel

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Both of them Hugo Weckmann's — 8.13

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.13, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Grendo, 35, rolls back the years — 7.82

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.82 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Ghazl El Mahalla

Ahmed Hamed Shousha 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.

Boardroom17 Aug 2026

Graduation day at Ghazl El Mahalla

2 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Emmanuel Ntim 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.

The terraces17 Aug 2026

The crowd has taken to Hugo Weckmann

At 22 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.

Match15 Aug 2026

Ghazl El Mahalla see off Al Gaish

Three points for Ghazl El Mahalla, 2‑0 the final word against Al Gaish in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Market17 Aug 2026

One of our own: Ashraf El Hadary joins the Ghazl El Mahalla first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ashraf El Hadary is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market17 Aug 2026

El Sayed Aboutrika steps up from the Ghazl El Mahalla academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. El Sayed Aboutrika has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

In brief