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Crisis
Squad8 Nov 2027
107 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad8 Nov 2027
The manager makes an example of Fidel Tourn
“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.
Match6 Nov 2027
0-1 to Al-Diriyah, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Boardroom8 Nov 2027
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
Boardroom8 Nov 2027
Al-Qadisiyah release $3.8M for the manager
The board have put money on the table rather than an encouraging word. What happens to it now is somebody else's problem, and somebody else's job.
Squad8 Nov 2027
A season average of 7.22 with 3 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
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Steady
Match1 Nov 2027
Al-Qadisiyah are in among the leaders
Position 3 and 21 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Match30 Oct 2027
Three points for Al-Qadisiyah, 3-1 the final word against Al-Khaleej in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Boardroom1 Nov 2027
148% of the income goes out in wages at Al-Qadisiyah
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad1 Nov 2027
The manager makes an example of Gastón Álvarez
“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.
Squad1 Nov 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Ahmed Al-Kassar and Al-Qadisiyah agree another 1 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad1 Nov 2027
Iker Almena is in the form of his life
A season average of 7.33 with 4 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad1 Nov 2027
The captaincy has been taken off Koen Casteels. Al-Qadisiyah will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.
Market1 Nov 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Al-Qadisiyah know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The terraces1 Nov 2027
Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.
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Crisis
Market25 Oct 2027
“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.
Squad25 Oct 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Match23 Oct 2027
4 matches without a win for Al-Qadisiyah
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Al-Qadisiyah are no longer polite ones.
Match23 Oct 2027
Beaten 2-3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad25 Oct 2027
“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.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Koen Casteels lets one through his hands
A defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.
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Crisis
Match2 Oct 2027
Chastening afternoon for Al-Qadisiyah
A 2-5 beating by Al-Ittihad was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Match4 Oct 2027
Al-Qadisiyah are in among the leaders
Position 3 and 17 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad4 Oct 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market4 Oct 2027
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Al-Qadisiyah hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad4 Oct 2027
Nacho signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Nacho commits to Al-Qadisiyah for another 2 years.
Boardroom4 Oct 2027
Wages eat 137% of everything Al-Qadisiyah earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Squad4 Oct 2027
The manager makes an example of Gastón Álvarez
“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.
Boardroom4 Oct 2027
Nobody left the Al-Qadisiyah dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
Squad4 Oct 2027
Whether it was the goalkeeper or the ten in front of him is the argument that will fill every conversation in town this week. 5 saves does not settle it either way.
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Upbeat
Squad27 Sep 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match25 Sep 2027
A 3-2 win over Al-Ra'ed, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad27 Sep 2027
The manager makes an example of Fidel Tourn
“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.
Squad27 Sep 2027
At 21 he is in the side on merit and somebody else is watching from the bench. Places at Al-Qadisiyah are won quietly and lost loudly.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Meshari Sunyur asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
In brief
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Market
Muço Boçi leaves for nothing
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The terraces
The press have found their man in Otávio
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Steady
Match15 Sep 2027
Al-Shoulla go through and Al-Qadisiyah go home, 0-1 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Meshari Sunyur: 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.” Al-Qadisiyah have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad20 Sep 2027
“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.
Boardroom20 Sep 2027
Nobody left the Al-Qadisiyah dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
Match18 Sep 2027
It finished 1-1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Squad20 Sep 2027
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Al-Qadisiyah have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Market20 Sep 2027
The Otávio talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Al-Qadisiyah know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Market20 Sep 2027
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Lance Rozeboom may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
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Upbeat
Match28 Aug 2027
3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Match28 Aug 2027
Three points for Al-Qadisiyah, 2-1 the final word against Al-Ahli in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Market30 Aug 2027
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Lance Rozeboom has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Al-Qadisiyah.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Iker Almena finally opens his account
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Al-Qadisiyah have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Hamed Al-Ghamdi asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Cameron Puertas unhappy with how he is being used
Asked to play a role that is not his, or taken off before the hour once too often — Cameron Puertas has let it be known that he does not like the way Al-Qadisiyah are using him. Managers hear this long before the press does.
Squad30 Aug 2027
A new face in his position, and Hamed Al-Ghamdi suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Al-Qadisiyah have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
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Uneasy
Market26 Jul 2027
“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.
Market26 Jul 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Al-Qadisiyah know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Market26 Jul 2027
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Lance Rozeboom may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
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Uneasy
Market12 Jul 2027
Al-Ahli pay $5.6M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Market12 Jul 2027
Al-Khaleej pay $2.3M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Market12 Jul 2027
Al-Hazem come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Al-Qadisiyah did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market12 Jul 2027
Lucio Garberi has left for Al-Fateh in a $2.1M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Aarón Martín knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Al-Qadisiyah, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Somebody else's move, somebody else's headline. What it left at Al-Qadisiyah is an empty peg and a footballer who keeps glancing at it.
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Uneasy
Market5 Jul 2027
“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.
Market5 Jul 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market5 Jul 2027
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Squad5 Jul 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Christopher Bonsu Baah and Al-Qadisiyah agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market5 Jul 2027
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Al-Qadisiyah will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Squad5 Jul 2027
“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.
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Uneasy
Market28 Jun 2027
Julian Weigl 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-Qadisiyah can pretend not to have heard.
Market28 Jun 2027
Al-Hilal come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Al-Qadisiyah did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market28 Jun 2027
Al-Ra'ed pay $430.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Squad28 Jun 2027
The manager makes an example of Lance Rozeboom
“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.
Market28 Jun 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Al-Qadisiyah know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Loan watch28 Jun 2027
30 appearances at Al-Hazem and the goals keep coming. Al-Qadisiyah are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
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Uneasy
Market31 May 2027
“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-Qadisiyah can pretend not to have heard.
Market31 May 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Al-Qadisiyah is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Boardroom31 May 2027
Wages eat 87% of everything Al-Qadisiyah earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Squad31 May 2027
The manager makes an example of Lance Rozeboom
“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.
Squad31 May 2027
Haitham Asiri knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Al-Qadisiyah, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market31 May 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Al-Qadisiyah know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Steady
Market3 May 2027
“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-Qadisiyah can pretend not to have heard.
Squad3 May 2027
Hamed Al-Ghamdi: 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.” Al-Qadisiyah have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Loan watch3 May 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Al-Qadisiyah, and 4 appearances in 16 say he has earned the hearing.
Boardroom3 May 2027
88% of the income goes out in wages at Al-Qadisiyah
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Market3 May 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Al-Qadisiyah know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Loan watch3 May 2027
30 appearances at Al-Hazem and the goals keep coming. Al-Qadisiyah are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
Market3 May 2027
The clock runs on Mohammed Qasem's contract
2 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
Squad3 May 2027
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Abdullah Al-Salem has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
Squad3 May 2027
Otávio is out on the grass again
He came through the session, took part in everything and finished it smiling. Al-Qadisiyah will not rush him, and he will spend the next fortnight trying to rush them.
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Steady
Market12 Apr 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Al-Qadisiyah is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad12 Apr 2027
The manager makes an example of Yasir Al-Sinan
“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.
Market12 Apr 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Al-Qadisiyah know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Steady
Market5 Apr 2027
“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.
Loan watch5 Apr 2027
“I did not go to Al-Nassr to sit and watch. I want to come back to Al-Qadisiyah and fight for my place.” 4 appearances in 12 matches say the rest.
Loan watch5 Apr 2027
30 appearances away from home and 6 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Nacho keeps his manager's vote
The message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: Nacho plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.
Squad5 Apr 2027
A welcome sight on the training pitch: Ali Hazazi has come through recovery and is pushing for a place again.
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Uneasy
Market8 Mar 2027
“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.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Nacho and Al-Qadisiyah agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Hamed Al-Ghamdi asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Uneasy
Market8 Feb 2027
“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.
Match6 Feb 2027
4 matches without a win for Al-Qadisiyah
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Al-Qadisiyah are no longer polite ones.
Market8 Feb 2027
Ohod are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Al-Qadisiyah will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Match6 Feb 2027
2-2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Ali Hazazi 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A season average of 7.21 with 2 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Somebody is after Otávio’s shirt
A new face in his position, and Otávio suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Al-Qadisiyah have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
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Crisis
Market25 Jan 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market25 Jan 2027
The fee is $170.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Al-Ra'ed drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Squad25 Jan 2027
29 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Match23 Jan 2027
Beaten 2-3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Boardroom25 Jan 2027
137% of the income goes out in wages at Al-Qadisiyah
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad25 Jan 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Musleh Al-Shaikh and Al-Qadisiyah agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad25 Jan 2027
“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.
Market25 Jan 2027
The name of Turki Al-Ammar keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Al-Qadisiyah say nothing, which says plenty.
Loan watch25 Jan 2027
24 appearances at Al-Hazem and the goals keep coming. Al-Qadisiyah are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
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Upbeat
Market4 Jan 2027
The bid was some way short and Al-Qadisiyah did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market4 Jan 2027
Jehad Thikri 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-Qadisiyah can pretend not to have heard.
Squad4 Jan 2027
147 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match2 Jan 2027
Three points for Al-Qadisiyah, 1-0 the final word against Al-Wehda in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad4 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Musab Al-Juwayr
“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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Al-Qadisiyah have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Market4 Jan 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Al-Qadisiyah know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Market4 Jan 2027
6 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Al-Qadisiyah could get for him.
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Steady
Market28 Dec 2026
“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.
Match26 Dec 2026
Al-Shabab left with the points after a 1-2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
Wages eat 178% of everything Al-Qadisiyah earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Squad28 Dec 2026
“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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
Loan watch28 Dec 2026
20 appearances at Al-Hazem and the goals keep coming. Al-Qadisiyah are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
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Steady
Market7 Dec 2026
Jehad Thikri 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-Qadisiyah can pretend not to have heard.
Loan watch7 Dec 2026
“I did not go to Hajer to sit and watch. I want to come back to Al-Qadisiyah and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 17 matches say the rest.
Match5 Dec 2026
A 1-0 win over Al-Faisaly, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad7 Dec 2026
8 goals and a season average of 7.25. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“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.
Market7 Dec 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Al-Qadisiyah know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Steady
Squad9 Nov 2026
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Al-Qadisiyah have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market9 Nov 2026
Jehad Thikri 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-Qadisiyah can pretend not to have heard.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“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.
Match7 Nov 2026
It finished 1-1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
The terraces9 Nov 2026
The spotlight tightens on Nacho
Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.
Market9 Nov 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Al-Qadisiyah know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Upbeat
Match24 Oct 2026
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3-0 against Najran, and it could have been more.
Market26 Oct 2026
“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-Qadisiyah can pretend not to have heard.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Nacho 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Al-Qadisiyah have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Market26 Oct 2026
The Julian Weigl talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Al-Qadisiyah know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Jehad Thikri knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Al-Qadisiyah, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Steady
Market12 Oct 2026
Jehad Thikri 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-Qadisiyah can pretend not to have heard.
Squad12 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Musab Al-Juwayr
“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.
Match10 Oct 2026
A 1-1 draw with Al-Nassr leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Market12 Oct 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Al-Qadisiyah know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Gastón Álvarez joins up with his country. Al-Qadisiyah lose him for the window and would like him back in one piece.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A window away with the national side, and a shirt at Al-Qadisiyah that briefly doubles as an advertisement. A call-up flatters the player and the club that built him in the same breath.
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Crisis
Market28 Sep 2026
“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-Qadisiyah can pretend not to have heard.
Match26 Sep 2026
Al-Shabab left with the points after a 3-4 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad28 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Julian Weigl
“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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Beaten 4 times, with 5 saves for company. Goalkeepers carry these scorelines on their record whoever actually caused them, which is the quiet injustice of the job.
Squad28 Sep 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Al-Qadisiyah, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market28 Sep 2026
The Julian Weigl talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Al-Qadisiyah know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market21 Sep 2026
“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.
Match19 Sep 2026
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Al-Qadisiyah did not have in the autumn.
Match19 Sep 2026
A 2-0 win over Hajer, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“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.
Market21 Sep 2026
Otávio linked with a move away
The name of Otávio keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Al-Qadisiyah say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Asked to play a role that is not his, or taken off before the hour once too often — Christopher Bonsu Baah has let it be known that he does not like the way Al-Qadisiyah are using him. Managers hear this long before the press does.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Al-Qadisiyah, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad21 Sep 2026
At 27 he has made the position his own, and the man he took it from has to find something to say about it. Al-Qadisiyah have a decision that made itself.
Market21 Sep 2026
The best deals are the ones the accountants never notice. Lucio Garberi arrives at Al-Qadisiyah with his wages the only cost and something to prove the only clause.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match9 Sep 2026
Al-Fayha are out and Al-Qadisiyah go through, 1-0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Market14 Sep 2026
Jehad Thikri 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-Qadisiyah can pretend not to have heard.
Squad14 Sep 2026
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market14 Sep 2026
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Haitham Asiri reports back to Al-Qadisiyah with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Lance Rozeboom
“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.
Match12 Sep 2026
It finished 1-1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Julian Weigl knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Al-Qadisiyah, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Otávio finally opens his account
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Al-Qadisiyah have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Market14 Sep 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Al-Qadisiyah know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.