Karim El Nenny

Central Midfielder - Masr El Makasa
19 Sep 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Karim El Nenny

6 Edition

The Masr El Makasa Courier

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Masr El Makasa taken apart

0‑4 to Zamalek, 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.

Squad

Fathy Tarek stands alone

8 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.

Market

Not going: El Sayed Tarek stays at Masr El Makasa

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

Player ratings

Bassem El Nenny beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 26. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Boardroom

Deadline passes with 6 signed and 0 gone

That is the business done at Masr El Makasa until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

Market

Trezeguet El Nenny asks to leave Masr El Makasa

“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.

Squad

Yasser Sobhi 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 Masr El Makasa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

No hiding place for Fathy Tarek

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

Squad

Bassem El Hadary is the division's best young player this month

At 21 he has spent a month being better than everybody his age in the league, which is a different and harder thing than one good afternoon. Masr El Makasa will try very hard not to make too much of it.

In brief

Back issues
4 Edition

The Masr El Makasa Courier

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Bassem El Nenny

Successful dribbles: 39. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Fathy Tarek

There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Market

Mohamed Hegazi asks to leave Masr El Makasa

“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.

Squad

Words exchanged at Masr El Makasa

Ahmed El Sheikh 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Masr El Makasa

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Trezeguet Zaki was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

Masr El Makasa come up short against Al Ahly

Al Ahly left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Karim El Nenny

“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.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑2 defeat, delivered by Shikabala Zaki to a room that had heard them before.

Squad

Karim Ghaly signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Karim Ghaly and Masr El Makasa agree another 3 years.

In brief