Ativeer Jain

Central Midfielder - Free Agent
25 Oct 2029
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Marked for Ativeer Jain

165 Edition

The Bukovyna Post

24 Sep 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad24 Sep 2029

Vitalii Hrusha breaks a bone — 29 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 29 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad24 Sep 2029

Oleh Ilin keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Bukovyna may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad24 Sep 2029

Bohdan Boichuk 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 Bukovyna this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings24 Sep 2029

Ninety minutes of Vitalii Dakhnovskyi at his very best

Marked 8.98. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Bukovyna.

Squad24 Sep 2029

The manager makes an example of Denys Bida

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Player ratings24 Sep 2029

Bohdan Boichuk runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Loan watch24 Sep 2029

Mykola Kovalenko wants to come home

“I did not go to Vorskla to sit and watch. I want to come back to Bukovyna and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.

Match22 Sep 2029

Bukovyna and Kudrivka take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

Player ratings24 Sep 2029

Denys Bida leaves them behind him

Shots: 11. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.

In brief

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112 Edition

The Al-Njoom Post

18 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad18 Sep 2028

Francisco Valenzuela is the hero from the spot

A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Francisco Valenzuela: 2 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.

Match13 Sep 2028

Saad Al-Mutairi sends Al-Njoom through

Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Saad Al-Mutairi obliged against Al-Faisaly. 1‑1 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Al-Njoom.

Market18 Sep 2028

Ativeer Jain 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 Al-Njoom can pretend not to have heard.

Market18 Sep 2028

Ziyad Al-Refaei is on his way

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

Squad18 Sep 2028

Ali Kachmar 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-Njoom this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad18 Sep 2028

The manager makes an example of Prince Ibara

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Player ratings18 Sep 2028

One of those days for Sardorbek Erkinov

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.61, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Player ratings18 Sep 2028

The kick that got away from Safi Al-Zaqarty

Twelve yards, a goalkeeper guessing, and it still did not go in. He will take the next one, and every soul in the ground will hold their breath.

Squad18 Sep 2028

7 new faces, and Al-Njoom are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

In brief

105 Edition

The Al-Njoom Post

31 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market31 Jul 2028

Ativeer Jain asks to leave Al-Njoom

“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.

Squad31 Jul 2028

Arya Delavari is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Market31 Jul 2028

Only the photograph left for Muhammad Ilham

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Muhammad Ilham will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Al-Njoom the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad31 Jul 2028

A late step up for Prince Ibara

At 32 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.

Squad31 Jul 2028

Words at Al-Njoom training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Khaled Al-Sumairi 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.

Boardroom31 Jul 2028

Al-Njoom beat the market to Abdulaziz Sharifi from Al-Saudi Al-Watani

Al-Saudi Al-Watani will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Abdulaziz Sharifi has pre-agreed a move to Al-Njoom, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.

In brief

90 Edition

The Al-Njoom Post

17 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market17 Apr 2028

Ativeer Jain asks to leave Al-Njoom

“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.

Squad17 Apr 2028

A muscle injury sidelines Prince Ibara for 14 days

Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Al-Njoom will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.

Squad17 Apr 2028

Tempers go at Al-Njoom

Yan 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.

Squad17 Apr 2028

Khaled Al-Sumairi 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.

Boardroom17 Apr 2028

139% of the income goes out in wages at Al-Njoom

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.

Squad17 Apr 2028

Home is on Salman Ələsqərov'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-Njoom are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

In brief