Mukhtar Barnawi

Striker - Free Agent
31 Jan 2027
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The Al-Hilal Chronicle

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad24 Aug 2026

106 days out for Pablo Marí after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Al-Hilal will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Match22 Aug 2026

Al-Hilal run riot against Hajer

6‑2, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

A brace, and Mohamed Meïté takes the afternoon — 8.96

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Mohamed Meïté provided it, and the 8.96 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Salem Al-Dawsari scores twice — 8.43

Two goals and a mark of 8.43 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Sabri Dahal, 18, plays like he has been here for years — 8.16

A mark of 8.16 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.

Market24 Aug 2026

Al-Hilal sign Alfa Semedo for $2.4M

The paperwork is done: Alfa Semedo joins from Al-Fayha in a deal worth $2.4M. Now comes the harder part.

Market24 Aug 2026

Al-Hilal say no — this time

The offer from Al-Ra'ed for Mohammed Al-Yami was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Market24 Aug 2026

Ollie Watkins wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Rúben Neves 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-Hilal this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

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The Al-Hilal Chronicle

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market10 Aug 2026

Terms done: Sergej Milinković-Savić is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Tottenham waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Al-Hilal is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Market10 Aug 2026

Al-Hilal say no — this time

The offer from Porto for Rúben Neves was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Market10 Aug 2026

Not going: Mohammed Al-Zaid stays at Al-Hilal

“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Al-Jeel had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.

Market10 Aug 2026

Yassine Bounou wants more than Al-Hilal are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Boardroom10 Aug 2026

Al-Hilal go back to the board over Raghid Najjar

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $308.2K — a club that wants Raghid Najjar enough to be asked twice.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

The paperwork begins on Saeed Nader

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Al-Hilal have done the hard part with Al Ahli, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Al-Hilal

Sergej Milinković-Savić 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.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Mukhtar Barnawi signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mukhtar Barnawi commits to Al-Hilal for another 3 years.

Squad10 Aug 2026

10 new faces, and Al-Hilal are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

In brief