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48 Edition

The Al Shaab Sentinel

28 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad28 Jun 2027

Carlos Mosquera damages knee ligaments — 92 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 92 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.

Market28 Jun 2027

João Freitas says no to Emirates Club

“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. João Freitas had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.

Market28 Jun 2027

Al Shaab say no — this time

The offer from Al Shabab for Khalid Suqrat 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.

Squad28 Jun 2027

Words exchanged at Al Shaab

Ibrahim Bayesh 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.

Squad28 Jun 2027

Abdulla Ahmed is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 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.

Market28 Jun 2027

Business is business: Ibrahim Al Hammadi goes

Al Fujairah paid $220.0K and Al Shaab took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

In brief

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37 Edition

The Al Shaab Sentinel

12 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad12 Apr 2027

A knee injury of the worst kind for Salem Al Kamali

35 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Al Shaab lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad12 Apr 2027

Amer Yaqoob 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 Shaab this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad12 Apr 2027

Al Shaab lose Hamdan Khalfan

29 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad12 Apr 2027

Fahad Abdulrahman signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Fahad Abdulrahman and Al Shaab agree another 3 years.

The dugout12 Apr 2027

Ismail Omar 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.

The dugout12 Apr 2027

The manager makes an example of Abdullah Al Naqbi

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Market12 Apr 2027

The Ibrahim Bayesh question follows Al Shaab around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Ibrahim Bayesh’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

The dugout12 Apr 2027

A door opens for Abdallah Al-Blooshi

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

The dugout12 Apr 2027

The manager comes out for Khalid Al Bloushi

Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Khalid Al Bloushi has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.

In brief