The Al-Riyadh Post
Boardroom28 Feb 2028
Al-Riyadh to lose Luca Ramirez for free
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Luca Ramirez has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Squad28 Feb 2028
A falling-out at Al-Riyadh
Milan Borjan and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad28 Feb 2028
Defences have started doubling up on Leandro Antunes
16 goals and a season average of 7.20 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Squad28 Feb 2028
Words at Al-Riyadh training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tozé 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.
Boardroom28 Feb 2028
137% of the income goes out in wages at Al-Riyadh
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.
Loan watch28 Feb 2028
Jan Petek’s loan is measured in nothing happening
13 clean sheets from 26 appearances at Al-Shoulla. That is the whole of a goalkeeper’s job done properly, and it is being done a long way from the club that owns him.
Player ratings28 Feb 2028
Leandro Antunes was the difference for Al-Riyadh
Marked 7.87. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Match26 Feb 2028
Leandro Antunes rescues a point for Al-Riyadh
It needed Leandro Antunes to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Al-Fayha, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The dugout28 Feb 2028
Milan Borjan has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Al-Riyadh will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
In brief
- The dugout No hiding place for Abdulaziz Al-Hadhood
- The dugout The view from the dugout
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Khalil Al-Absi