Marked for Mostafa El Aash
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad10 Jul 2028
30 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Smouha lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad10 Jul 2028
139 days out for Samuel Amadi after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Smouha will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market10 Jul 2028
“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.
Transfer targets10 Jul 2028
Smouha and Aswan have settled on $100.0K. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.
Squad10 Jul 2028
Words exchanged at Smouha
Khaled El Ghandour and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Transfer targets10 Jul 2028
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad10 Jul 2028
Words at Smouha training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Isaac Sackey 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.
The dugout10 Jul 2028
This is not rotation. Yassine Abdelali has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Smouha is pretending otherwise.
The dugout10 Jul 2028
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
Back issues
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Crisis
Squad20 Mar 2028
Words exchanged at Smouha
Khaled El Ghandour and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
The dugout20 Mar 2028
This is not rotation. Koné Mohamed has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Smouha is pretending otherwise.
Squad20 Mar 2028
Words at Smouha training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Amr El Sisi 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.
Match18 Mar 2028
0‑2 to El Dakhleya, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout20 Mar 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Samadou Attidjikou, and the manager let it.
The dugout20 Mar 2028
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑2 Ahmed Warda left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout20 Mar 2028
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Squad20 Mar 2028
One booking too many, and David Atanga sits out. Smouha lose him for the sort of avoidable reason that makes a manager's week longer.
Player ratings20 Mar 2028
Successful dribbles: 12. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Steady
Market17 Jan 2028
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Smouha have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Transfer targets17 Jan 2028
Smouha have gone to Al Ahly with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Player ratings17 Jan 2028
At 34 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.05, and nobody on the pitch better.
Market17 Jan 2028
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Smouha can pretend not to have heard.
Market17 Jan 2028
Smouha get their man
The chase for Mostafa El Aash ended with $1.0M changing hands and El Masry out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Market17 Jan 2028
The fee is $130.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Zamalek drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Squad17 Jan 2028
A falling-out at Smouha
Khaled El Ghandour and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The terraces17 Jan 2028
The town asked, and Smouha paid $1.0M
Mostafa El Aash was the name on every phone-in, and the club has gone and signed him for $1.0M. For one week the board can do no wrong, which is a week most boards never get.
Squad17 Jan 2028
Words at Smouha training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Amr El Sisi 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.
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Upbeat
Market10 Jan 2028
“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 El Masry, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market10 Jan 2028
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Ghazl El Mahalla waiting with a shirt. Nobody at El Masry is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market10 Jan 2028
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Market10 Jan 2028
Add another name to the list: Zamalek have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Moustafa Zeidan. The answer from El Masry has not changed — yet.
Transfer targets10 Jan 2028
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Al Ahly is saying, and nobody at El Masry is enjoying the guessing.
Transfer targets10 Jan 2028
The deal with Masr El Makasa died in the treatment room. Nobody will say what was found and everybody in the game will find out by Friday.
Transfer targets10 Jan 2028
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. El Masry have done the hard part with Al Ahly, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Player ratings10 Jan 2028
Successful dribbles: 23. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Boardroom10 Jan 2028
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Reindorf Huncho has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means El Masry have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
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Uneasy
Market10 Jan 2028
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Haras El Hodoud waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Smouha is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Transfer targets10 Jan 2028
The clubs have shaken hands with Zamalek; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Market10 Jan 2028
Sherif Reda hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Smouha can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets10 Jan 2028
Smouha asked and Al Ahly said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Transfer targets10 Jan 2028
$1.0M on the table at El Masry. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Market10 Jan 2028
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Momen Mohamed Abd Rabo is a Smouha player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Squad10 Jan 2028
Words exchanged at Smouha
Mohamed Dabash and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Player ratings10 Jan 2028
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout10 Jan 2028
This is not rotation. Insa Badji has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Smouha is pretending otherwise.
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Uneasy
Market3 Jan 2028
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Smouha can pretend not to have heard.
Squad3 Jan 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Smouha this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Jan 2028
A row about effort at Smouha
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Amr El Sisi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets3 Jan 2028
Smouha asked and El Masry said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market3 Jan 2028
The name of Anisse Saidi has come up in conversations Smouha were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Match3 Jan 2028
Halfway: Smouha sit in position 9
20 points at the turn. The first half of a season is a promise; the second is a bill, and the town is about to find out which of the two this one was.
Transfer targets3 Jan 2028
A loan enquiry to Al Ahly: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets3 Jan 2028
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.
Player ratings3 Jan 2028
Marked 7.30. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
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Upbeat
Market30 Aug 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what El Masry can pretend not to have heard.
Market30 Aug 2027
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around El Masry people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Player ratings30 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 30. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Transfer targets30 Aug 2027
Fee done, terms next for Oufa Shobeir
El Masry and Al Ahly have settled on $760.0K. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.
The dugout30 Aug 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Match28 Aug 2027
Still nobody has beaten El Masry
The unbeaten run reaches 8. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Market30 Aug 2027
The paperwork is done: Ahmed Farouk joins from Wadi Degla in a deal worth $600.0K. Now comes the harder part.
Squad30 Aug 2027
A falling-out at El Masry
Karim El Eraki and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Words at El Masry training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Baher Elmohamady 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.
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Upbeat
Match19 Jul 2027
El Masry refuse to drop out of the race
Position 2, 76 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. El Masry have done the hard part with Petrojet, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Karim El Eraki 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.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Lanús have kept their man, and El Masry go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout19 Jul 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout19 Jul 2027
“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.
The dugout19 Jul 2027
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. El Masry told Mostafa Aboul-Kheir something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
Market19 Jul 2027
The name of Mostafa El Aash keeps appearing in other people's back pages. El Masry say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad19 Jul 2027
A wage question at El Masry
Baher Elmohamady has done the arithmetic and does not like the answer. Nothing corrodes a squad faster, and no club has ever solved it by explaining the wage structure to a footballer.
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Upbeat
Match21 Jun 2027
El Masry refuse to drop out of the race
Position 2, 76 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Market21 Jun 2027
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Ghazl El Mahalla waiting with a shirt. Nobody at El Masry is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Transfer targets21 Jun 2027
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Al Ahly keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Karim El Eraki 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.
Transfer targets21 Jun 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad21 Jun 2027
A row about effort at El Masry
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Hassan Ali was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets21 Jun 2027
Feirense 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.
The dugout21 Jun 2027
Baher Elmohamady has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at El Masry will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Market21 Jun 2027
The name of Mostafa El Aash keeps appearing in other people's back pages. El Masry say nothing, which says plenty.
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Upbeat
Market14 Jun 2027
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around El Masry people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market14 Jun 2027
“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.
Transfer targets14 Jun 2027
El Masry have gone to Al Ahly with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Squad14 Jun 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Mostafa El Aash and El Masry agree another 4 years.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Words exchanged at El Masry
Karim El Eraki and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Transfer targets14 Jun 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Aldosivi have kept their man, and El Masry go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad14 Jun 2027
A row about effort at El Masry
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Hassan Ali was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets14 Jun 2027
A loan enquiry to Braga: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
The dugout14 Jun 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Upbeat
Market7 Jun 2027
El Masry say no — this time
The offer from Petrojet for Kingsley Eduwo was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market7 Jun 2027
“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 El Masry, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad7 Jun 2027
A falling-out at El Masry
Karim El Eraki and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets7 Jun 2027
El Masry asked and Al Ahly said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad7 Jun 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Mohamed Shokry and El Masry agree another 3 years.
Transfer targets7 Jun 2027
A loan enquiry to Londrina: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets7 Jun 2027
A loan move for Mateo Benegas is in the works
El Masry have made the call to Ferro Carril Oeste. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.
The dugout7 Jun 2027
“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.
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Upbeat
Match24 May 2027
El Masry refuse to drop out of the race
Position 2, 76 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Market24 May 2027
“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 El Masry, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad24 May 2027
Karim El Eraki 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.
Squad24 May 2027
Words at El Masry training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Hassan Ali 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.
The dugout24 May 2027
Baher Elmohamady has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at El Masry will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout24 May 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Joke Efevwerha, and the manager let it.
The dugout24 May 2027
Salah Mohsen knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Salah Mohsen trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout24 May 2027
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Essam Tharwat has written the date down.
Market24 May 2027
The name of Mostafa El Aash keeps appearing in other people's back pages. El Masry say nothing, which says plenty.
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Crisis
Match20 Mar 2027
1‑4 to Zamalek, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Hassan Ali 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.
Loan watch22 Mar 2027
12 goals on loan for Ziad Farag
28 appearances at El Dakhleya and the goals keep coming. El Masry are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
Boardroom22 Mar 2027
Nobody left the El Masry dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Words exchanged at El Masry
Baron Ochieng and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Goalkeepers do not get to make mistakes; they get to make goals. He made one, he knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
The dugout22 Mar 2027
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑4 Ibrahim Kahraba left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout22 Mar 2027
Essam Tharwat 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.
The dugout22 Mar 2027
Mostafa El Aash dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
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Steady
The dugout22 Feb 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” El Masry may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Karim El Eraki 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.
Boardroom22 Feb 2027
Al Ahly will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Zidan Nageh has pre-agreed a move to El Masry, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Baher Elmohamady 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 dugout22 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mido Gaber, and the manager let it.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Ibrahim Kahraba after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
Mostafa El Aash dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
13 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
4 attempts, none of them in. He got into the right places all afternoon, which is the hard part, and did the easy part badly — and that is the version of a bad day a manager can live with.
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Upbeat
Match13 Feb 2027
15 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Market15 Feb 2027
“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 El Masry, and it is not being withdrawn.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” El Masry may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad15 Feb 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at El Masry this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Essam Tharwat
“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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
A row about effort at El Masry
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Hassan Ali was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
Marked 7.89 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, El Masry had the best player on the pitch.
Loan watch15 Feb 2027
23 appearances away from home and 10 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
Match13 Feb 2027
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
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Upbeat
Squad19 Oct 2026
A falling-out at El Masry
Karim El Eraki and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Marked 7.45. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Ibrahim Kahraba chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The form table has caught Louay Wael
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
Match17 Oct 2026
Point won or two lost for El Masry?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Masr El Makasa? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Brinner does not fit this one
Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.
Market19 Oct 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Mostafa El Aash’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and El Masry have no good answer.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Mahmoud Hamada speaks, and the room listens
“I am not asking anybody to be better than they are. I am asking everybody to be as good as they are, every week.” Said out loud, in front of everybody, and the room at El Masry was different afterwards.