The Ittihad Herald
Squad16 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Mohamed Tony
110 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.
Match14 Nov 2026
Ittihad make it 8 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Ittihad have 8 straight wins of it.
Squad16 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Body out for 54 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.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Vintage Mabululu — 7.94
At 34 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.94, and nobody on the pitch better.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Youssef Nader: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Ittihad have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market16 Nov 2026
Sobhy Soliman has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Ittihad they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad16 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Ittihad
Hesham Balaha and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Hesham Balaha was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 21. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Match14 Nov 2026
Ittihad get the job done against Arab Contractors
A 1‑0 win over Arab Contractors, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.