The Emirates Club Chronicle
Boardroom7 Jun 2027
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Emirates Club
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Boardroom7 Jun 2027
Emirates Club spell it out for Bandar Al Hammadi
The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Bandar Al Hammadi has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.
Transfer targets7 Jun 2027
Hamdan Al Shamsi turns down Emirates Club
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Al Shabab keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Transfer targets7 Jun 2027
Emirates Club agree $330.0K for Ahmed Suqrat
The clubs have shaken hands with Al Shabab; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Market7 Jun 2027
Ebraheim Khameis hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Emirates Club can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom7 Jun 2027
Emirates Club go back to the board over Ahmed Suqrat
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $400.0K — a club that wants Ahmed Suqrat enough to be asked twice.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Tempers go at Emirates Club
Isaac Success 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.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Emirates Club count the cost of losing Khalid Nasir Al-Zari
52 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Emirates Club lose Ali Badr
33 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
In brief
- Squad Jardel wants to go home
- The dugout Isaac Success without the man who signed him
- The dugout A promise honoured for Sidi-Hamed Dahmani