Saïmon Bouabré

Left Midfielder - Al-Hilal
12 Sep 2026
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Marked for Saïmon Bouabré

6 Edition

The Al-Hilal Chronicle

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match5 Sep 2026

Al-Hilal run riot against Al-Wehda

7‑3, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Squad7 Sep 2026

4 goals for Abdulkarim Darisi

The match ball belongs to Abdulkarim Darisi, whose 4 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.

Market7 Sep 2026

Yassine Benzia says no to Foolad

“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Yassine Benzia had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.

Player ratings7 Sep 2026

A brace, and Crysencio Summerville takes the afternoon — 8.10

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Crysencio Summerville provided it, and the 8.10 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Market7 Sep 2026

Al-Hilal turn down Ismaily for Pablo Marí

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Player ratings7 Sep 2026

No sign of nerves from Saïmon Bouabré at 20 — 8.07

The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Saïmon Bouabré did not need any: 8.07, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Market7 Sep 2026

Lokomotiv Moscow join the queue for Ollie Watkins

Add another name to the list: Lokomotiv Moscow have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Ollie Watkins. The answer from Al-Hilal has not changed — yet.

Match5 Sep 2026

Al-Hilal make it 4 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Al-Hilal have 4 straight wins of it.

Boardroom7 Sep 2026

Deadline passes with 17 signed and 16 gone

That is the business done at Al-Hilal until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

In brief

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4 Edition

The Al-Hilal Chronicle

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match22 Aug 2026

Al-Hilal run riot against Hajer

9‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Squad24 Aug 2026

A day Gabriel Martinelli will not forget

4 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.

Market24 Aug 2026

Al-Hilal turn down Lokomotiv Moscow for Sergej Milinković-Savić

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad24 Aug 2026

A day Ollie Watkins will not forget

3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Rúben Neves scores twice — 8.34

Two goals and a mark of 8.34 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Transfer targets24 Aug 2026

The paperwork begins on Yassine Benzia

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Al-Hilal have done the hard part with Al-Fayha, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Market24 Aug 2026

Haman Mandjan 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 Al-Hilal can pretend not to have heard.

Market24 Aug 2026

Gabriel Martinelli wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Gabriel Martinelli 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-Hilal this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief