Marked for Bader Fallatah
From our football correspondent
Crisis
The terraces27 Mar 2028
The mood at Ohod has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Match27 Mar 2028
Ohod sink to position 16
14 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market27 Mar 2028
“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.
Market27 Mar 2028
Only the photograph left for Joanderson
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Joanderson will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Ohod the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad27 Mar 2028
Bader Fallatah: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Ohod have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad27 Mar 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Ohod this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad6 Sep 2027
A fracture rules Jorge Zárate out for 57 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Ohod will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Safi Al-Zaqarty: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Ohod have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market6 Sep 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Ohod can pretend not to have heard.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Turki Ba Al-Jawsh is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Match4 Sep 2027
The wait goes on for Ohod
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match4 Sep 2027
The goals have deserted Ohod
4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Ohod can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad6 Sep 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Ohod this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match4 Sep 2027
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
112% of the income goes out in wages at Ohod
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.