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Edition
The Baniyas Gazette
31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad31 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Mahamadou Camara
14 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Baniyas lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Suhail Al-Noobi breaks a bone — 89 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 89 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market31 Aug 2026
Youssoufou Niakaté asks to leave Baniyas
“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.
In brief
- Squad Baniyas are running out of bodies
- Squad Baniyas lose Hamdan Abdulrahman
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Jóhann Berg Guðmundsson
- Market Ahmed Fawzi leaves on loan