The Damac Gazette
Market16 Oct 2028
Only the photograph left for Nawaf Al-Osaimi
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Nawaf Al-Osaimi will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Damac the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad16 Oct 2028
Words exchanged at Damac
Kewin 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.
Squad16 Oct 2028
Rendra Teddy signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Rendra Teddy commits to Damac for another 1 years.
Squad16 Oct 2028
Home is on Andrey Koshelev'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; Damac are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Loan watch16 Oct 2028
Saud Al-Tumbukti counts the days
“I watch every Damac game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Al-Ta'ee runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The dugout16 Oct 2028
Kewin 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 Kewin is on it.
Market16 Oct 2028
No place for Chrome Gomis in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Chrome Gomis has his answer from Damac; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Market16 Oct 2028
The Yahya Naji story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Yahya Naji signs something — a contract at Damac or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout16 Oct 2028
A door opens for Nawaf Al-Bishri
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.
In brief
- Market The shop window has Olebogeng Ntlhaile in it
- The dugout Rendra Teddy knocks on the manager's door
- Boardroom Damac keep producing them