Esho

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Police Union
28 Oct 2026
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Esho

11 Edition

The Police Union Courier

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

The dugout

Esho keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Police Union may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Match

4 matches without a win for Police Union

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Police Union are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Tempers go at Police Union

Simphiwe Selepe 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

A row about effort at Police Union

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ahmed Nabil Manga was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

Police Union come up short against El Masry

El Masry left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Kenneth Ikugar

“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.

The dugout

Mostafa Gabr: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

The dugout

Ibrahim Aboul-Yazid is still being punished for one mistake

Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.

Player ratings

One moment undoes Ibrahim Aboul-Yazid

There was one mistake and it ended in the net. Defenders are judged on the worst thing they did rather than on the eighty-nine minutes either side of it, which is unfair and is also the job.

In brief

Back issues
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The Police Union Courier

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Israel Emmanuel gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Israel Emmanuel has just signed for Police Union, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad

Ahmed Abdallah signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ahmed Abdallah commits to Police Union for another 2 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Police Union

Ahmed Nabil Manga 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.

Market

A stepping stone, not a home, for Imamu Bala

He is doing his job and he is not settling. Police Union were supposed to be a step up in his own reckoning, and his own reckoning has been adjusted since he arrived.

Squad

The formation has left Mahmoud Ezzat behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Police Union will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

Market

Still no ink between Police Union and Kenneth Ikugar

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Police Union, another week without a signature from Kenneth Ikugar.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Esho is in the works

Police Union have made the call to Zamalek. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Transfer targets

Police Union try to borrow Ahmed Menshawi

Ittihad have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Transfer targets

Police Union try to borrow Hesham Mostafa

Al Ahly have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

In brief