Pablo Suárez

Attacking Midfielder (C) - Al Shaab
7 Nov 2026
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Marked for Pablo Suárez

13 Edition

The Al Shaab Sentinel

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market26 Oct 2026

Rodrygo Alves puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Al Shaab, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings26 Oct 2026

A brace, and Rodrygo Oliveira takes the afternoon — 8.08

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Rodrygo Oliveira provided it, and the 8.08 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Squad26 Oct 2026

A one-man rearguard from Salem Al Bloushi

There were 6 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.

Squad26 Oct 2026

Josepmir Ballón 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.

Match24 Oct 2026

A bad afternoon for Al Shaab against Al Nasr

2‑3 to Al Nasr, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad26 Oct 2026

No hiding place for Mohamed Al Bloushi

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

In brief

Back issues
12 Edition

The Al Shaab Sentinel

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match17 Oct 2026

Al Shaab run riot against Al Jazira

3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Player ratings19 Oct 2026

Both of them Saeed Al Hashmi's — 8.69

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.69, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad19 Oct 2026

Real improvement from Ismail Rashid at Al Shaab

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Ismail Rashid is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad19 Oct 2026

Tempers go at Al Shaab

Josepmir Ballón 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 terraces19 Oct 2026

The crowd has taken to Walid Yaqoob

At 19 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Squad19 Oct 2026

Pablo Suárez has improved at 25, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

Player ratings19 Oct 2026

Rodrygo Oliveira in the eights

A performance of 8.20 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad19 Oct 2026

Diego Otoya 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.

Market19 Oct 2026

Rodrygo Alves linked with a move away

The name of Rodrygo Alves keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Al Shaab say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

8 Edition

The Al Shaab Sentinel

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

A brace, and Rodrygo Oliveira takes the afternoon — 8.19

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Rodrygo Oliveira provided it, and the 8.19 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

Nobody could get near Nasser Mabkhout

Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Real improvement from Ismail Rashid at Al Shaab

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Ismail Rashid is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Hassan Hussain 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.

Match19 Sep 2026

Rodrygo Oliveira sends Al Shaab past Baniyas

It finished 3‑1, and it was Rodrygo Oliveira’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Al Shaab.

The terraces21 Sep 2026

Al Shaab supporters have found a favourite in Nasser Mabkhout

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

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

A masterclass from Rodrygo Alves

Marked 8.79 — 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.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Pablo Suárez has improved at 25, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Diego Otoya 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.

In brief