The Sharjah Chronicle
Squad9 Aug 2027
The knee: Kodjo Laba out for 119 days
119 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Sharjah lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Real improvement from Nikola Vukić at Sharjah
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Nikola Vukić is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Tempers go at Sharjah
Kodjo Laba 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.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Words at Sharjah training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Milson 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.
Loan watch9 Aug 2027
Léo Azevedo wants to come home
“I did not go to Baniyas to sit and watch. I want to come back to Sharjah and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.
The dugout9 Aug 2027
No hiding place for Rafael Pereira
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Rafael Pereira, and the manager let it.
The dugout9 Aug 2027
When it matters, Cho Yu-Min plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market9 Aug 2027
Ousmane Camara linked with a move away
The name of Ousmane Camara keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Sharjah say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout9 Aug 2027
Kevin Cataño 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 Sharjah, and both men came out saying it was fine.
In brief
- The dugout Nikola Vukić has been promised minutes
- Market Abdollah Esmaeili leaves for nothing
- Market David Gondim leaves for nothing