The Al-Hazem Herald
Squad7 Sep 2026
Miguel Carvalho damages knee ligaments — 39 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 39 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 14 in, 6 out at Al-Hazem
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 14 arrived, 6 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Market7 Sep 2026
The Al-Nahda deal is off
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Amadou Bamba reports back to Al-Hazem with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Al-Hazem
Omar Al-Somah and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market7 Sep 2026
Dinamo Moscow are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Al-Hazem will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Miguel Carvalho is the division's best young player this month
At 21 he has spent a month being better than everybody his age in the league, which is a different and harder thing than one good afternoon. Al-Hazem will try very hard not to make too much of it.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Aboubacar Bah
“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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Elias Mokwana is no longer first choice
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Elias Mokwana has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
Market7 Sep 2026
Al-Hazem borrow Ibrahim Al-Shuail
A season-long look at somebody else’s player: Ibrahim Al-Shuail arrives from Al-Taawoun with something to prove and a return ticket in the drawer. Good loans make everybody richer; this one starts Saturday.
In brief
- The terraces The stands have heard the Aboubacar Bah talk too
- The dugout Ibrahim Zaied knocks on the manager’s door
- Market The market said no: Saud Al-Rashed stays put