Hassan Saeed

Central Midfielder - Al Shaab
10 Jul 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Hassan Saeed

47 Edition

The Al Shaab Sentinel

21 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces

Anger at Al Shaab spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Squad

Real improvement from Majed Hussain at Al Shaab

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Majed Hussain is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Market

Mazin Saleh is a Al Shaab player

The fee is $84.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Al Dhafra drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.

Squad

Tempers go at Al Shaab

Walid 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.

Squad

Hassan Saeed 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.

Squad

Majed Hussain gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

Back issues
32 Edition

The Al Shaab Sentinel

8 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

Al Shaab part company with Fahad Al Shamsi

The statement thanked him for his efforts and wished him well, in that order and in about that many words. The search begins immediately.

Squad

Hassan Abdulrahman breaks a bone — 49 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 49 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Boardroom

Majed Obaid steps up at Al Shaab for now

“Somebody picks the team on Saturday. This week it is me, and that is as far as I have thought.” No promises were made in either direction, which is how these usually begin.

Squad

Tempers go at Al Shaab

Walid 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.

Squad

Hassan Saeed stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Hassan Saeed and Al Shaab agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Loan watch

Majed Al Kamali wants to come home

“I did not go to Sharjah to sit and watch. I want to come back to Al Shaab and fight for my place.” 7 appearances in 29 matches say the rest.

In brief

17 Edition

The Al Shaab Sentinel

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Faisal Al Hammadi breaks a bone — 50 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 50 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

Every point is an argument now for Al Shaab

Position 12 and 7 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Gabriel Aguirre at 21 — 7.69

The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Gabriel Aguirre did not need any: 7.69, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Squad

Walid 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.

The terraces

Al Shaab supporters have found a favourite in Gabriel Aguirre

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Gabriel Aguirre 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.

Match

Al Shaab find a way past Al Fujairah

Al Fujairah made Al Shaab work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Bandar Nader

Marked 8.25 — 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Hassan Saeed

Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Omar Hassan gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

  • Squad Words at Al Shaab training over how hard people work
  • The terraces Bandar Nader has his own song now