The Ghazl El Mahalla Sentinel
Market7 Sep 2026
Youssef Ahmed Hassan 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 Ghazl El Mahalla can pretend not to have heard.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Carlos Gutiérrez 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 Ghazl El Mahalla this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Sep 2026
No hiding place for Carlos Gutiérrez
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Carlos Gutiérrez, and the manager let it.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Rached Arfaoui in the eights
A performance of 8.57 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Ghazl El Mahalla training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Zakaria Hadraf 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.
Match5 Sep 2026
Honours even between Ghazl El Mahalla and Haras El Hodoud
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Jimmy Mwanga runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Ahmed El Sheikh dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
The one thing Jack Lynn could not do
Shots: 6, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
In brief
- Player ratings Seif Emam could not find anything
- Market Window shut, Abdi Ineza still here
- The terraces The press have found their man in Rached Arfaoui