Abdullah Aman

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25 Apr 2027
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24 Edition

The Al-Diriyah Sentinel

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings11 Jan 2027

Óscar runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 33. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market11 Jan 2027

Al-Diriyah turn down Al-Qadisiyah for Abdulelah Al-Malki

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad11 Jan 2027

A move Abdullah Aman would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Abdullah Aman is living that version at Al-Diriyah, and it tends to show in the first month.

Match9 Jan 2027

No end in sight to Al-Diriyah's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Al-Diriyah has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad11 Jan 2027

Tempers go at Al-Diriyah

Gaëtan Laborde 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.

Squad11 Jan 2027

No hiding place for Georges-Kévin Nkoudou

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Georges-Kévin Nkoudou, and the manager let it.

Market11 Jan 2027

Abdulaziz Al-Shahrani attracts admirers

The name of Abdulaziz Al-Shahrani has come up in conversations Al-Diriyah were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Player ratings11 Jan 2027

A defender's afternoon for Ziyad Al-Qahtani

Defensive actions: 16. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Squad11 Jan 2027

Eliandro dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

In brief

Back issues
9 Edition

The Al-Fayha Chronicle

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad28 Sep 2026

A knee injury of the worst kind for Jason

95 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Al-Fayha lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad28 Sep 2026

A day Yassine Benzia will not forget

3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Tempers go at Al-Fayha

Mikel Villanueva 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.

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

Yassine Benzia in the eights

A performance of 10.00 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

Nobody could get near Fashion Sakala

Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match26 Sep 2026

Al-Fayha get the job done against Al-Ta'ee

A 3‑2 win over Al-Ta'ee, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Words at Al-Fayha training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Chris Smalling 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.

Match26 Sep 2026

Yassine Benzia at the heart of a fast Al-Fayha start

2 goals inside twenty minutes with Yassine Benzia in the middle of it, and Al-Ta'ee unable to get near the ball long enough to change anything. Some matches are won before the first drink.

Loan watch28 Sep 2026

The goals keep arriving from Sattam Al-Ruqi’s exile

4 goals in 6 games at Al-Nahda — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Al-Fayha updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.

In brief