Mostafa Anani

Defensive Midfielder - Aswan
3 Jan 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Mostafa Anani

12 Edition

The Aswan Post

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Aswan tear Police Union apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Police Union, and it could have been more.

Squad

8 saves: Mohammed Galadima was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Player ratings

Blessing Eleke scores twice — 9.06

Two goals and a mark of 9.06 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings

Vintage Hossam Arafat — 8.13

At 36 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.13, and nobody on the pitch better.

The dugout

Abdelrahman Magdy: 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.” Aswan have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Player ratings

Mostafa Disha was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 17. 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.

Squad

Cyriaque Sylla 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.

The dugout

Emad Salah: “That is the standard”

“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 3‑0, already talking about the next one.

Squad

Blessing Eleke named player of the week

One weekend, judged against everybody else's. Blessing Eleke has come out on top of it, and for most footballers a weekly award is the only silverware a career ever produces.

In brief

Back issues
11 Edition

The Aswan Post

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout

Mostafa Anani keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Aswan may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Ahmed Ibrahim is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

Words exchanged at Aswan

Mohamed Abdelsalam and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Market

Aswan promote Abdallah Gabr from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Abdallah Gabr has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

The dugout

Imamu Bala 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.

Squad

Aswan are still strangers to each other

7 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

In brief

6 Edition

The Aswan Post

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Mostafa Anani puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Aswan, and it is not being withdrawn.

Boardroom

Window shuts: 16 in, 1 out at Aswan

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 16 arrived, 1 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Squad

Words exchanged at Aswan

Islam Gamal and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

Cyriaque Sylla 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Abdelaziz Mousa

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Transfer targets

Aswan ask about Ziad Ayoub

A loan enquiry to Al Ahly: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Squad

A step back for Abdelrahman Magdy at Aswan

Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.

Market

Aswan and Ibrahim El Asyuti are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Squad

Hossam Arafat moves up the pecking order

Nothing is announced when this happens and everybody knows. He is a bigger part of the plan at Aswan than he was a month ago, and the training ground worked that out before the team sheet said so.

In brief