Obaid Salem

Striker - Al Nasr
26 Jan 2027
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18 Edition

The Al Nasr Courier

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match28 Nov 2026

Still nobody has beaten Al Nasr

The unbeaten run reaches 14. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad30 Nov 2026

Lucas Bruera keeps Al Nasr 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.

Squad30 Nov 2026

Obaid Salem keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Al Nasr may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad30 Nov 2026

Tempers go at Al Nasr

Lucas Bruera 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.

Market30 Nov 2026

Al Nasr may not be able to give João Moreira what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. João Moreira wants continental football; whether Al Nasr can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Squad30 Nov 2026

Words at Al Nasr training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marius Marin 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.

Match28 Nov 2026

Al Nasr make home a hard place to visit

9 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Player ratings30 Nov 2026

Ramón Mierez runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Boardroom30 Nov 2026

Wages eat 122% of everything Al Nasr earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

In brief

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6 Edition

The Al Nasr Courier

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match5 Sep 2026

Marouan Azarkan settles it late for Al Nasr

The 87th minute, half the ground already edging towards the exits, and Marouan Azarkan decided nobody was going anywhere. Al Jazira had no time left to answer.

Market7 Sep 2026

Obaid Salem 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 Al Nasr can pretend not to have heard.

Squad7 Sep 2026

A one-man rearguard from Lucas Bruera

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Market7 Sep 2026

Al Nasr turn down Al Shabab for Hussain Mahdi

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

Squad7 Sep 2026

Ramón Mierez 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 Al Nasr this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Real improvement from Saeed Maqdami at Al Nasr

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Saeed Maqdami is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Boardroom7 Sep 2026

4 academy players handed senior numbers at Al Nasr

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Words at Al Nasr training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marius Marin 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.

Player ratings7 Sep 2026

Nothing got past Luka Milivojević

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 20 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

In brief