Guy Félix Lima

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17 Aug 2028
Thursday
Process

Marked for Guy Félix Lima

103 Edition

The Aswan Post

17 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the Aswan boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Squad

Seidu Basit 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 Aswan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

The step up is real for Guy Félix Lima

At 21 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Squad

Adham Hamed has improved at 28, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

Squad

A row about effort at Aswan

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

Transfer targets

Door shut on Jimmy

Aswan asked and AE Kition said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Islam Gamal

“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.

Transfer targets

Aswan try to borrow Amr Nasser

Zamalek have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

The dugout

When it matters, Steve Hoffman plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

In brief

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95 Edition

The Aswan Post

22 May 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the Aswan boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Squad

Seidu Basit 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 Aswan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A row about effort at Aswan

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

The dugout

Steve Hoffman 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 Steve Hoffman is on it.

The dugout

El Limby gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

The dugout

Abdelaziz Mousa knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Aswan, and both men came out saying it was fine.

The dugout

A door opens for Mahmoud Diasty

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

Squad

More bad news for Steve Hoffman

Another 12 days on the injury, and a return date that has now been moved more than once. The medical staff have stopped giving one.

Squad

Questions about Guy Félix Lima on the training pitch

The standards have slipped, and in a building where everybody watches everybody it has not gone unremarked. This is how a player loses a place before he loses one.

In brief

85 Edition

The Aswan Post

13 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A fracture rules Youssef El Gohary out for 68 days

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

Market

Mostafa Anani 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 Aswan can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Words exchanged at Aswan

Seidu Basit and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

Mahmoud Diasty 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Seidu Basit

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The dugout

Mahmoud Diasty gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Match

A bad afternoon for Aswan against Ismaily

0‑1 to Ismaily, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Guy Félix Lima wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Aswan can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

The dugout

Ali El Shenawy answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

In brief

75 Edition

The Aswan Post

3 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom

Aswan put Ali El Shenawy on notice

The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.

Boardroom

The scrutiny sharpens at Aswan

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Aswan is running low.

Boardroom

Crisis meeting at Aswan

The official line will be that it was routine. It was not routine, the timing says so, and every person in that room knows what the next bad result costs.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Steve Hoffman

There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Market

Mostafa Anani 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 Aswan can pretend not to have heard.

The dugout

Chisom Chikatara: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Aswan have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Tempers go at Aswan

Seidu Basit 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Aswan

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

The dugout

No hiding place for Ahmed Hamoudi

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ahmed Hamoudi, and the manager let it.

In brief