The Petrojet Post
Squad11 Jan 2027
Ahmed Bahbah breaks a bone — 62 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 62 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
Badr Mousa scores twice — 9.08
Two goals and a mark of 9.08 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market11 Jan 2027
Mohamed El Araby asks to leave Petrojet
“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.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Eyad Tamer is a medical away from Petrojet
The deal with Al Ahly is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Petrojet
Ahmed Yassin 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
A move Jefferson Ramos would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Jefferson Ramos is living that version at Petrojet, and it tends to show in the first month.
Match9 Jan 2027
Petrojet find a way past Smouha
Smouha made Petrojet work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Youssef Limouri 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.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Petrojet rebuffed over Ziad Kamal
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. ENPPI have kept their man, and Petrojet go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Ahmed Yassin
- Player ratings A masterclass from Mostafa El Badry
- Player ratings Nzube Chukwurah beats them one at a time