The Ittihad Herald
Squad7 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Mostafa Ibrahim
137 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Ittihad lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 16 in, 1 out at Ittihad
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 16 arrived, 1 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Market7 Sep 2026
Adham Alaa hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Ittihad can pretend not to have heard.
Market7 Sep 2026
Only the photograph left for Sobhy Soliman
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Sobhy Soliman will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Ittihad the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
El Masry tell Ittihad: Salah Mohsen is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Mohamed Tony 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 Ittihad this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Isaac Saviour 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
10 new faces, and Ittihad are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Looking ahead7 Sep 2026
Mahmoud Shabana faces his old club
Aswan next, and one man in the Ittihad dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
In brief
- Market Talks stall between Ittihad and Abdulrahman Muniru
- The dugout Anthony Okachi knocks on the manager’s door
- Market Ahmed Eid placed on the list