The Al-Hazem Herald
Squad30 Nov 2026
Saud Al-Rashed keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Al-Hazem may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Bruno Varela 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-Hazem this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Abdelmounaim Boutouil was immovable
21 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words at Al-Hazem training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abdulla Al-Hammadi 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.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
350% of the income goes out in wages at Al-Hazem
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.
Match28 Nov 2026
Al-Hazem find a way past Al-Orobah
Al-Orobah made Al-Hazem work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
In brief
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Yousef Al-Shammari
- Player ratings The afternoon belonged to Omar Al-Somah
- Squad The manager makes an example of Mohammed Al-Yami