Marked for Salem Abdullah
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Uneasy
Squad23 Nov 2026
Mikel Kaloshi 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.
Loan watch23 Nov 2026
“I did not go to Metta/LU to sit and watch. I want to come back to Jelgava and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 14 matches say the rest.
Squad23 Nov 2026
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Jelgava know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
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Steady
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 34. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market9 Nov 2026
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Al Nasr heard it as anything else.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Ramón Mierez 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Marius Marin 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Marius Marin, and the manager let it.
Match7 Nov 2026
Al Fujairah left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
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Uneasy
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 39. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market21 Sep 2026
Mehdi Ghayedi wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Al Nasr hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Ramón Mierez 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 Nasr this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match19 Sep 2026
3 matches without a goal for Al Nasr
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Marked 6.97 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Al Nasr had the best player on the pitch.
Match19 Sep 2026
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Emirates Club came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.