The Smouha Sentinel
Squad31 Aug 2026
El Hany Soliman damages knee ligaments — 140 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 140 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market31 Aug 2026
Emad Fathi asks to leave Smouha
“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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
El Hany Soliman 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 Smouha this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match29 Aug 2026
Amoory’s goal not enough for Smouha
Amoory scored, and precious little else went right: 2‑3 to Zamalek, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Mahamoud Metwaly 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Samuel Amadi runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad31 Aug 2026
No hiding place for Mahamoud Metwaly
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mahamoud Metwaly, and the manager let it.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Hesham Balaha was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.20. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Market31 Aug 2026
Ghazl El Mahalla are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Smouha will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
In brief
- Player ratings Mohamed Dabash could not find anything
- Player ratings Amoory never got going
- Market Islam Ateya goes looking for football