Omar Juma

Central Midfielder - Al Shaab
20 Oct 2026
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Marked for Omar Juma

12 Edition

The Al Shaab Sentinel

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad19 Oct 2026

Mohamed Rashid breaks a bone — 63 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 63 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match17 Oct 2026

7 matches without a win for Al Shaab

The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Al Shaab are no longer polite ones.

Squad19 Oct 2026

Ali Al Shamsi 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.

Squad19 Oct 2026

Real improvement from Ismail Al Kamali at Al Shaab

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Ismail Al Kamali is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad19 Oct 2026

Words at Al Shaab training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Issam Faiz 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.

Match17 Oct 2026

Al Shaab are shipping goals every week

Two or more conceded in each of the last 4 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.

Match17 Oct 2026

Al Shaab come up short against Al Jazira

Al Jazira left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Loan watch19 Oct 2026

Majed Omar counts the days

“I watch every Al Shaab game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Sharjah runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

Player ratings19 Oct 2026

Omar Juma runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 12. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

Back issues
10 Edition

The Al Shaab Sentinel

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad5 Oct 2026

A fracture rules Mohamed Rashid out for 80 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Al Shaab will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match3 Oct 2026

The wait goes on for Al Shaab

4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Ali Al Shamsi 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.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

A hand in 2 of them from Omar Juma — 7.65

Marked 7.65. There is a kind of forward whose value only shows up when you count what he was involved in rather than what he finished, and this is the day that argument makes itself.

Match3 Oct 2026

Rashid Al Suwaidi’s goal not enough for Al Shaab

Rashid Al Suwaidi scored, and precious little else went right: 2‑3 to Sharjah, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Words at Al Shaab training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Issam Faiz 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.

Squad5 Oct 2026

No hiding place for Ali Al Shamsi

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ali Al Shamsi, and the manager let it.

The terraces5 Oct 2026

Al Shaab supporters have found a favourite in Rashid Al Suwaidi

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Rashid Al Suwaidi has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

A masterclass from Rashid Al Suwaidi

Marked 8.07 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

In brief

9 Edition

The Al Shaab Sentinel

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad28 Sep 2026

Mohamed Rashid breaks a bone — 88 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 88 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Tempers go at Al Shaab

Ali Al Shamsi 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.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Issam Faiz falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

In brief

7 Edition

The Al Shaab Sentinel

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad14 Sep 2026

A fracture rules Mohamed Rashid out for 103 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Al Shaab will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match12 Sep 2026

Al Shaab let it slip despite Saeed Omar

Saeed Omar had done his part in building a 3-goal cushion. What happened after that was collective, and Dibba were allowed back into a match that had been finished with.

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

Omar Juma runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Facundo Quintana is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 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.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Issam Faiz falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad14 Sep 2026

A late step up for Mohamed Hassan

At 25 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.

In brief