Luca Ramirez

Striker - Al-Batin
28 Aug 2027
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Marked for Luca Ramirez

51 Edition

The Al-Batin Herald

19 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad19 Jul 2027

37 days out for Abdoulay Diaby after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Al-Batin will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Squad19 Jul 2027

Abdoulay Diaby 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-Batin this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad19 Jul 2027

Words at Al-Batin training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Youssouf M'Changama 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.

The dugout19 Jul 2027

The manager has not finished forgetting Turki Al-Jalfan's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

Squad19 Jul 2027

No place for Luca Ramirez in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Al-Batin are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

The dugout19 Jul 2027

Salem Barayan 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 Salem Barayan is on it.

In brief

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50 Edition

The Al-Batin Herald

12 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad12 Jul 2027

A fracture rules Abdoulay Diaby out for 44 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Al-Batin will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market12 Jul 2027

Terms done: Lungelo Nguse is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Al-Ta'ee waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Al-Batin is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Squad12 Jul 2027

Tempers go at Al-Batin

Simon Falette 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.

Market12 Jul 2027

Luca Ramirez is a Al-Batin player

The fee is $51.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Al-Riyadh drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.

Boardroom12 Jul 2027

142% of the income goes out in wages at Al-Batin

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

Market12 Jul 2027

One of our own: Salem Al-Juhani joins the Al-Batin first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Salem Al-Juhani is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market12 Jul 2027

Al-Batin promote Ahmed Al-Otaibi from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ahmed Al-Otaibi has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Squad12 Jul 2027

A row about effort at Al-Batin

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Omar Abdullah was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad12 Jul 2027

Al-Batin are still strangers to each other

6 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

In brief

50 Edition

The Al-Riyadh Post

12 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad12 Jul 2027

Faisal Al-Sobhi breaks a bone — 54 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 54 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market12 Jul 2027

Yahia Al-Shehri is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Al-Riyadh is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad12 Jul 2027

Tempers go at Al-Riyadh

Mamadou Sylla 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.

Market12 Jul 2027

Abdullah Hassoun moves on

Ohod pay $730.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Squad12 Jul 2027

Words at Al-Riyadh training over how hard people work

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

Squad12 Jul 2027

A late step up for Teddy Okou

At 29 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.

Market12 Jul 2027

Al-Riyadh sell Luca Ramirez for $51.0K

Luca Ramirez has left for Al-Batin in a $51.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Transfer targets12 Jul 2027

Al-Riyadh rebuffed over Abdulaziz Jurmush

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Al-Shoulla have kept their man, and Al-Riyadh go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market12 Jul 2027

One of our own: Nasser Al-Ghamdi joins the Al-Riyadh first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Nasser Al-Ghamdi is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief