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11 Oct 2026
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Marked for Riga

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The Al Gaish Courier

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Tempers go at Al Gaish

Allan Nyom 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.

Squad

Mario Galeano 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.

Boardroom

133% of the income goes out in wages at Al Gaish

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

Squad

Words at Al Gaish training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Camacho 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.

Player ratings

Ziad El Teihy was the difference for Al Gaish

Marked 7.90. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Al Gaish

7 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

Match

Honours even between Al Gaish and Zamalek

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Player ratings

The one thing Brandon Rosas could not do

Shots: 6, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Ghaith Al-Madadha

Successful dribbles: 12. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

  • Market Mario Galeano linked with a move away
  • Player ratings A day to forget for Riga