The Al-Wehda Post
Boardroom6 Mar 2034
Al-Wehda spell it out for Interim Coach
The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Interim Coach has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.
Squad6 Mar 2034
A fracture rules Ibrahim Al-Nemer out for 92 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Al-Wehda will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad6 Mar 2034
Ziyad Al-Hunaiti says Al-Wehda went back on their word
“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.
Squad6 Mar 2034
Mattia Piermarini gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Mattia Piermarini has just signed for Al-Wehda, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad6 Mar 2034
Words at Al-Wehda training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mohammed Abu Al-Shamat 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.
Boardroom6 Mar 2034
Al-Wehda agree a free transfer for Lucas Nallin
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
Boardroom6 Mar 2034
98% of the income goes out in wages at Al-Wehda
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.
Boardroom6 Mar 2034
$1.2M taken back off the Al-Wehda table
What was available in the summer has quietly gone. Upstairs nobody will call it a change of ambition; downstairs nobody will call it anything else.
Market6 Mar 2034
Mattia Piermarini joins Al-Wehda on a free
No fee and no drama: Mattia Piermarini has signed at Al-Wehda, and the wage bill is the only line that moved.
In brief
- Market Amit Harel leaves for nothing
- Market Still no signature from Ziyad Al-Hunaiti