The Damac Gazette
Squad24 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Nabil Alioui
95 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Damac lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Kewin keeps Damac in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market24 Aug 2026
Noor Al-Rashidi asks to leave Damac
“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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A defender's afternoon for Morlaye Sylla
Defensive actions: 25. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Valentín Vada shuts the door
Defensive actions: 24, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Nabil Alioui 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 Damac this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Nothing got past Tariq Abdullah
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 16 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Mohammad Alsalkhadi runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market24 Aug 2026
Al-Saudi Al-Watani are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Damac will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
In brief
- Squad Damac pick somebody else ahead of Riyadh Sharahili
- Match Point won or two lost for Damac?