The Al Shabab Post
Market24 Aug 2026
Hamdan Ismail says no to Helsingborg
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Hamdan Ismail had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Market24 Aug 2026
Hamdan Al Hashmi is a Al Shabab player
The fee is $4.9M, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Al Ahli drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Market24 Aug 2026
Mohamed Suqrat hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Al Shabab can pretend not to have heard.
Market24 Aug 2026
Al Shabab say no — this time
The offer from Al Ahli for Majed Mabkhout 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The paperwork begins on Diego Mascardi
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Al Shabab have done the hard part with Spezia, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Al Shabab
Allan Nyom and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Al Shabab training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abdullah Al Hammadi 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.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Abdullah Al Hammadi
“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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
7 new faces, and Al Shabab are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
In brief
- Squad The formation has left Felipe Motta behind
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Ali Suqrat