The Al-Fateh Gazette
Squad12 Oct 2026
80 days out for Hussain Qassem after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Al-Fateh will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Real improvement from Abdul Aziz Al-Fawaz at Al-Fateh
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Abdul Aziz Al-Fawaz is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Home is on Mihai Lixandru's mind
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Al-Fateh are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Al-Fateh
Abdulaziz Al-Suwailem and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Loan watch12 Oct 2026
Mohamed Al-Sarnoukh has seen enough of Al-Shabab
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Al-Fateh, and 3 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.
Market12 Oct 2026
Habib Al-Watyan told to find a new club
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Habib Al-Watyan has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Al-Fateh.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
Saeed Baattia faces his old club
Al-Ahli next, and one man in the Al-Fateh dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Ziyad Al-Jari asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Abdulaziz Al-Suwailem gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Abdulaziz Al-Suwailem is on it.
In brief
- The dugout A door opens for Saad Al-Sharfa
- Market Jefferson Ramos leaves for nothing
- Market The Fawaz Al-Hamad talk will not go away