Youssef Sabra

Central Defender - Al Gaish
18 Sep 2028
Monday
Process

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The Al Gaish Courier

3 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The wait goes on for Al Gaish

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.

Squad

Marco Antonio Bueno 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 Gaish this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Al Gaish training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Camacho 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.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Karim Tarek

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Match

Ittihad take the points off Al Gaish

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

El Sayed Abo Amna stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” El Sayed Abo Amna and Al Gaish agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Ismaïl Ouro-Agoro

Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

Ahmed Alaa told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Ahmed Alaa has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Al Gaish.

Player ratings

The chances came and went for Marco Antonio Bueno

10 shots, and a count that reads like a good afternoon until you check the other column. Strikers survive weeks like this on the understanding that the chances keep arriving; the day they stop is the day it becomes a problem.

In brief

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The Haras El Hodoud Courier

26 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Only the photograph left for Mohamed El Negely

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Mohamed El Negely will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Haras El Hodoud the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Ziad Tarek 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 Haras El Hodoud this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Haras El Hodoud training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mohamed Magli 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.

In brief

49 Edition

The Haras El Hodoud Courier

5 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

Benjamin Evans is the new Haras El Hodoud manager

“This is a club with real history, and I did not have to think about it for long.” The new manager takes charge with every slate wiped clean.

Match

Haras El Hodoud sink to position 17

22 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Market

Mohamed El Negely puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Haras El Hodoud, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Haras El Hodoud turn down Masr El Makasa for Ahmed Nayel

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

Squad

Youssef Sabra keeps the receipts

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

Market

Adham Seha has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Haras El Hodoud they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Islam Abou Salima signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Islam Abou Salima commits to Haras El Hodoud for another 2 years.

Squad

Mohamed Magli 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.

Squad

Emeke Eze 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 Haras El Hodoud this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief