The Al-Riyadh Post
Market3 Aug 2026
Ludogorets watching Mamadou Sylla
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Al-Riyadh have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Market3 Aug 2026
Al-Riyadh say no — this time
The offer from Al-Shoulla for Mohammed Suhluli was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market3 Aug 2026
Trezeguet raises the bar for Al-Riyadh
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Al-Riyadh heard it as anything else.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Mamadou Sylla signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Mamadou Sylla and Al-Riyadh agree another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Al-Riyadh
Mamadou Sylla 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Al-Riyadh
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Trezeguet was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Door shut on Mohammed Al-Essa
Al-Riyadh asked and Al-Ettifaq said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Milan Borjan calls time on his country
“80 caps was 80 more than the boy who started ever expected.” At 38 he has stepped away from the national side and has not stepped away from Al-Riyadh.
Market3 Aug 2026
Al-Riyadh and Milan Borjan 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.
In brief
- Transfer targets Al-Riyadh ask about Omar Abdullah
- The dugout Trezeguet knocks on the manager’s door