Youssef Nader

Goalkeeper - Ittihad
27 Mar 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Youssef Nader

18 Edition

The Ittihad Herald

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Tempers go at Ittihad

Gennesh 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

Canaria 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.

Match

Ittihad come up short against Al Ahly

Al Ahly left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

No hiding place for Rashid Sumaila

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Rashid Sumaila, and the manager let it.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Abdelrahman Magdy

Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

A promise honoured for Youssef Nader

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Ittihad told Youssef Nader something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

In brief

Back issues
7 Edition

The Ittihad Herald

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Ahmed Eid out for 25 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Ittihad will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Ittihad turn down Al Ahly for Mahmoud Shabana

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

Match

No end in sight to Ittihad's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Ittihad has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Tempers go at Ittihad

Canaria 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

Words at Ittihad training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mohamed Djetei 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.

Market

El Masry expected to open talks for Mahmoud Alaa

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Ittihad will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

Player ratings

Afsha was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.51. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Squad

Ittihad lose Youssef Nader

23 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Match

Ittihad and El Masry take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

In brief

4 Edition

The Ittihad Herald

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Moamen Sherif

28 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Ittihad lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

Ahmed Eid breaks a bone — 49 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 49 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Ahmed Atef 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 Ittihad can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Canaria 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 Ittihad this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Rashid Sumaila gets it from the manager

“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.

Market

Abdelghani Mohamed told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Abdelghani Mohamed has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Ittihad.

Market

The Ahmed Menshawi conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: Smouha will make the call about Ahmed Menshawi this week. Ittihad have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

Match

Honours even between Ittihad and Police Union

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Afsha

Successful dribbles: 13. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief