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20 Edition

The Al Ain Chronicle

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match12 Dec 2026

Caio Lucas leads the rout of Al Jazira

4‑1, and Caio Lucas took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Al Ain tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Market14 Dec 2026

Racing Club come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Al Ain did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Player ratings14 Dec 2026

A brace, and Caio Lucas takes the afternoon — 8.44

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Caio Lucas provided it, and the 8.44 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Squad14 Dec 2026

The step up is real for Ahmed Hijazi

At 21 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Loan watch14 Dec 2026

Sorin Ziane counts the days

“I watch every Al Ain game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Al Shaab runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

The terraces14 Dec 2026

Al Ain supporters have found a favourite in Modou Niang

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Modou Niang has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Looking ahead14 Dec 2026

The big one: Al Shabab come into view

Two sides from the top of the table, one afternoon, and a month of talk decided in ninety minutes. Al Ain will not use the word title this week and will not stop thinking it.

Match12 Dec 2026

Caio Lucas answers Al Jazira immediately

Conceding is one thing; the response is what tells you about a dressing room. Caio Lucas had Al Ain level again within 3 minutes, and Al Jazira never got to play with a lead at all.

Squad14 Dec 2026

Tempers go at Al Ain

Đorđe Skoko 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.

In brief

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18 Edition

The Al Ain Chronicle

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings30 Nov 2026

Adis Jašić was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 25. 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.

Match28 Nov 2026

After 8 games, Al Ain finally taste it again

The first defeat in 8 matches. The manager will say it had to come; the dressing room will say it did not have to come against Baniyas; the supporters will say both, in that order, all week.

Squad30 Nov 2026

A falling-out at Al Ain

Ramy Rabia and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match28 Nov 2026

Houssine Rahimi’s goal not enough for Al Ain

Houssine Rahimi scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Baniyas, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

The dugout30 Nov 2026

The manager makes an example of Khalid Eisa

“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.

Squad30 Nov 2026

Ramy Rabia reaches 200 appearances

200 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.

Squad30 Nov 2026

Đorđe Skoko wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Al Ain know it.

Loan watch30 Nov 2026

Yussif Suleiman counts the days

“I watch every Al Ain game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Al Shaab runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

The dugout30 Nov 2026

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑2 Nasser Al Naqbi left the room before anybody could ask which.

In brief

11 Edition

The Al Ain Chronicle

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad12 Oct 2026

Real improvement from Yaman Zanirni at Al Ain

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Yaman Zanirni is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Ramy Rabia in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Al Ain this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Loan watch12 Oct 2026

Joshua Udoh has seen enough of Al Shaab

“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 Ain, and 1 appearances in 6 say he has earned the hearing.

Market12 Oct 2026

Ali Mabkhout steps up from the Al Ain academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ali Mabkhout has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Đorđe Skoko wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Al Ain know it.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Al Ain are still strangers to each other

9 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