Brabo

Left Forward - Al Shaab
16 Aug 2026
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Marked for Brabo

2 Edition

The Al Shaab Sentinel

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market10 Aug 2026

Al Shaab sell their best player to Inter

$36.6M is a serious amount of money and it does not play centre-forward. Everybody in the dressing room knows who used to be looked at when it went wrong.

Market10 Aug 2026

$2.2M — a new record at Al Shaab

No footballer has ever cost this club more, and the number will be read out every time he misplaces a pass for the next two years.

Market10 Aug 2026

Al Nasr come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Al Shaab did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

The terraces10 Aug 2026

Supporters turn on the $36.6M sale of Tuerto

He is going to Inter, the club has $36.6M it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.

Market10 Aug 2026

Walid Mabkhout asks to leave Al Shaab

“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.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Zayed Al-Ameri is a medical away from Al Shaab

The deal with Al Dhafra is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Brabo signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Brabo commits to Al Shaab for another 4 years.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Al Shaab

Hamad Al Menhali 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.

The terraces10 Aug 2026

$2.2M for Lautaro Palacios, and Al Shaab supporters approve

Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Lautaro Palacios from Deportes Copiapó for $2.2M, and a ticket office having a very good morning.

In brief

Back issues
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The Al Shaab Sentinel

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market3 Aug 2026

Tuerto attracts admirers

The name of Tuerto has come up in conversations Al Shaab were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

An offer of $2.2M for Lautaro Palacios

Al Shaab have gone to Deportes Copiapó with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Market3 Aug 2026

Brabo wants more than Al Shaab are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Al Shaab

Khalid Al Junaibi 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.

Squad3 Aug 2026

A row about effort at Al Shaab

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

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

A loan move for Daniel Pedrozo is in the works

Al Shaab have made the call to Al Wasl. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

The dugout3 Aug 2026

Tuerto knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Tuerto trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market3 Aug 2026

No place for Hassan Al Shamsi in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Hassan Al Shamsi has his answer from Al Shaab; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

Market3 Aug 2026

The Khalid Al Junaibi talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Al Shaab know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief