Ali El Mohamady

Central Midfielder - Masr El Makasa
6 Dec 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Ali El Mohamady

9 Edition

The Masr El Makasa Courier

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

No end in sight to Masr El Makasa's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Masr El Makasa has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

The step up is real for Fathy El Hadary

At 20 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Player ratings

Mahmoud Zaki beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 18. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Player ratings

Ali Mohsen in the eights

A performance of 8.12 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Match

Late, late show earns Masr El Makasa a point

Minute 91, against Al Gaish, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.

Squad

Words exchanged at Masr El Makasa

Mostafa Marwan 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.

Match

Ali Mohsen rescues a point for Masr El Makasa

It needed Ali Mohsen to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Al Gaish, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

Squad

Words at Masr El Makasa training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Karim Warda 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 dugout

Ramadan El Wensh: “We have to be better”

“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 2‑2 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

In brief

Back issues
6 Edition

The Masr El Makasa Courier

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Ali El Mohamady 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.

Boardroom

Deadline passes with 13 signed and 3 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.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Samuel Justo rejects the move

Masr El Makasa had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Sporting CP, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Transfer targets

Masr El Makasa make their move for Hussein Taimour

$140.0K on the table at Smouha. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Squad

Words exchanged at Masr El Makasa

Omar Fayed 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.

Transfer targets

Dynamo Kyiv tell Masr El Makasa: Shola Ogundana is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

The dugout

The manager has not finished forgetting Omar Fayed's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

Squad

Mahmoud Warda is no longer first choice

The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Mahmoud Warda has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.

Squad

A place in the month's best eleven for Fathy El Mohamady

Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Fathy El Mohamady has come out of that comparison in the side, and Masr El Makasa have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.

In brief