Abdalla Hatem

Central Midfielder - Al Ahly
28 Feb 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Abdalla Hatem

16 Edition

The Al Ahly Sentinel

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

The knee: Mohamed El Shenawy out for 60 days

60 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Al Ahly lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market

Marwan Ateya asks to leave Al Ahly

“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.

Market

Eyad Tamer is on his way

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

Squad

Words exchanged at Al Ahly

Mohamed Hany 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

Words at Al Ahly training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yasser Ibrahim 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.

Squad

Abdalla Hatem signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Abdalla Hatem commits to Al Ahly for another 4 years.

Market

Taher Mohamed is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Al Ahly has been clear about where Taher Mohamed stands, which is more than many ever get.

The dugout

Achraf Dari 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.

Looking ahead

A reunion for Mohamed El Shenawy

He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Petrojet in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.

In brief

Back issues
8 Edition

The Al Ahly Sentinel

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

The knee: Mohamed El Shenawy out for 128 days

128 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Al Ahly lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match

Achraf Bencharki leads the rout of Aswan

3‑0, and Achraf Bencharki took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Al Ahly tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Market

Marwan Ateya puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Al Ahly, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings

Abdalla Hatem, 18, plays like he has been here for years — 8.09

A mark of 8.09 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 18-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Match

Al Ahly make it 5 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Al Ahly have 5 straight wins of it.

Player ratings

Up for the corner, and Emam Ashour delivers — 7.89

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Emam Ashour scored, was marked 7.89, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Market

Only the photograph left for Eyad Tamer

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Eyad Tamer will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Al Ahly the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

The step up is real for Abdelrahman Mano

At 18 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

Words exchanged at Al Ahly

Mohamed Hany 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.

In brief

7 Edition

The Al Ahly Sentinel

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

The knee: Mohamed El Shenawy out for 137 days

137 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Al Ahly lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market

Samuel Oppong asks to leave Al Ahly

“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.

Transfer targets

Deadline beats Al Ahly to Fashion Sakala

The clock did what Al-Fayha would not, and ended it. Supporters who watched the countdown will spend the next window doing it again.

Match

Al Ahly make it 4 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Al Ahly have 4 straight wins of it.

Player ratings

A defender's goal wins it for Al Ahly — 7.79

1 for Emam Ashour, marked 7.79, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.

Market

Yassin Marei is on his way

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

Squad

The step up is real for Abdalla Hatem

At 18 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.

Transfer targets

Al Ahly baulk at the price for Louay Wael

Arab Contractors wanted more than $86.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Squad

Monsef Bakrar signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Monsef Bakrar and Al Ahly agree another 4 years.

In brief