Tswelelo Maake

Central Defender - Al Gaish
17 Sep 2028
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106 Edition

The Al Gaish Courier

7 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad7 Aug 2028

Islam Mohareb damages knee ligaments — 101 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 101 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad7 Aug 2028

Mohamed Hamed breaks a bone — 37 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 37 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad7 Aug 2028

Tswelelo Maake is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 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.

Squad7 Aug 2028

Tempers go at Al Gaish

Ismaïl Ouro-Agoro 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.

Market7 Aug 2028

Eyes on Adam Khan again

The phone has started ringing about Adam Khan again, and this time the name on the line is Tusker. Al Gaish are listening politely and promising nothing.

Market7 Aug 2028

Idoto Ocheme joins Al Gaish to strengthen the squad

Nobody sells a season ticket on a signing like this. Every manager who has been through a bad October wants one anyway, and Al Gaish have gone and got theirs early.

In brief

Back issues
101 Edition

The Al Gaish Courier

3 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad3 Jul 2028

A fracture rules Mohamed Hamed out for 79 days

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

Market3 Jul 2028

Riga has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Al Gaish they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Market3 Jul 2028

Islam Hesham is a Al Gaish player

The fee is $160.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Arab Contractors drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.

Squad3 Jul 2028

Ismaïl Ouro-Agoro 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 Gaish this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad3 Jul 2028

Words at Al Gaish training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Stanley Kanu 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.

Squad3 Jul 2028

Tahah 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.

In brief