The Ghazl El Mahalla Sentinel
Squad18 Jan 2027
A fracture rules Grendo out for 75 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Ghazl El Mahalla will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match16 Jan 2027
Ghazl El Mahalla taken apart
0‑3 to El Masry, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Amer Amer stands alone
6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
Ali Hussein is a medical away from Ghazl El Mahalla
The deal with Wadi Degla is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Abdi Ineza 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.
Boardroom18 Jan 2027
Inquest at Ghazl El Mahalla
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
El Sayed El Mohamady: “No excuses”
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Squad18 Jan 2027
A row about effort at Ghazl El Mahalla
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ahmed El Sheikh was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
Rached Arfaoui asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
In brief
- The dugout A promise honoured for Bassam Walid
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Mohammad Sweti
- Looking ahead Grendo goes back to face Haras El Hodoud