The Al Ahly Sentinel
Match2 Jan 2027
14 unbeaten for Al Ahly
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 14 matches without defeat is a foundation Al Ahly did not have in the autumn.
Match2 Jan 2027
Al Ahly tear Al Gaish apart
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Al Gaish, and it could have been more.
Market4 Jan 2027
FC Lorient come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Al Ahly did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market4 Jan 2027
Yasser Ibrahim 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Emam Ashour is named among the best
There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Al Ahly will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Samuel Oppong keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Al Ahly may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market4 Jan 2027
Ibrahim El Asyuti 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.
Match2 Jan 2027
The run at home goes on for Al Ahly
11 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Real improvement from Amir Alaa at Al Ahly
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Amir Alaa is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
In brief
- Squad Mohamed Ali Ben Romdhane in a row with a teammate
- Match Al Gaish blown away early
- Market Haras El Hodoud watching Ziad Ayoub