Lancine Bamba

Striker - Sharjah
17 Aug 2026
Monday
Process

Marked for Lancine Bamba

2 Edition

The Al Wasl Courier

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Pedro Malheiro signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Pedro Malheiro commits to Al Wasl for another 4 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Al Wasl

Pedro Malheiro was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Renato Tapia 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.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Pedro Malheiro

“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.

Market

Dibba watching Yousif Ali

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Al Wasl have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Market

The clock runs on Miguel Borja's contract

24 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.

In brief

Back issues
1 Edition

The Al Wasl Courier

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Ali Saleh asks to leave Al Wasl

“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.

Squad

10 seasons of Ali Saleh

170 appearances across 10 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Al Wasl know what they have.

Squad

Renato Tapia stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Renato Tapia and Al Wasl agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Tempers go at Al Wasl

Miguel Borja was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Words at Al Wasl training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Renato Tapia 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.

Market

Sharjah join the queue for Lancine Bamba

Add another name to the list: Sharjah have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Lancine Bamba. The answer from Al Wasl has not changed — yet.

In brief