Marked for Ramadan Ashour
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Steady
Player ratings20 Sep 2027
Successful dribbles: 67. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Karamoko Bamba is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad20 Sep 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ashraf Mohsen and Masr El Makasa agree another 5 years.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Words at Masr El Makasa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mahmoud El Shenawy 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.
Squad20 Sep 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Masr El Makasa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match18 Sep 2027
A 2‑1 win over Police Union, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
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Crisis
Match11 Sep 2027
Beaten 0‑3 by Zamalek, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Squad13 Sep 2027
A one-man rearguard from Ibrahim Gabr
There were 8 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.
Market13 Sep 2027
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Ghazl El Mahalla moved on, Achraf Hermach reports back to Masr El Makasa, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Trezeguet Fathy is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Match11 Sep 2027
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Mohamed Mohsen 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.
Squad13 Sep 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Gustavo Figueiredo and Masr El Makasa agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Boardroom13 Sep 2027
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
Loan watch13 Sep 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Masr El Makasa, and 0 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.
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Steady
Player ratings6 Sep 2027
Successful dribbles: 65. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market6 Sep 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad6 Sep 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad6 Sep 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Masr El Makasa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces6 Sep 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Mohamed Mohsen 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.
Match4 Sep 2027
It needed Mohamed Mohsen to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against El Dakhleya, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
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Crisis
Match28 Aug 2027
2‑6 against Al Ahly, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Gustavo Figueiredo is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Mahmoud El Shenawy 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.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Mohamed Mohsen 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.
Player ratings30 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad30 Aug 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mahmoud El Shenawy, and the manager let it.
Market30 Aug 2027
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Masr El Makasa will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Boardroom30 Aug 2027
Nobody left the Masr El Makasa dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
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Upbeat
Market2 Aug 2027
The offer from Paradou for Mohamed Mohsen 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.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Mahmoud El Shenawy 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.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Mohamed Mohsen 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.
Squad2 Aug 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Lance Rozeboom, and the manager let it.
Squad2 Aug 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Lawal Abiodun and Masr El Makasa agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Boardroom2 Aug 2027
Masr El Makasa release $92.7K for the manager
The board have put money on the table rather than an encouraging word. What happens to it now is somebody else's problem, and somebody else's job.
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Upbeat
Squad28 Jun 2027
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.
Market28 Jun 2027
“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 Masr El Makasa, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market28 Jun 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Masr El Makasa have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Words at Masr El Makasa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mahmoud El Shenawy 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.
Squad28 Jun 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Masr El Makasa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Upbeat
Squad31 May 2027
32 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Masr El Makasa lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Boardroom31 May 2027
Qualification is done, and next season the floodlights come on for something bigger. A stage for the players, oxygen for the accounts and a passport for everybody else.
Squad31 May 2027
Ashraf Mohsen is the young player of the season
Not a month, not a run of form — a whole season of being the best 20-year-old anybody in this division could put on a pitch. This is the honour that gets mentioned for the rest of his career.
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Upbeat
Squad3 May 2027
Gustavo Figueiredo damages knee ligaments — 63 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 63 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad3 May 2027
Achraf Hermach: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Masr El Makasa have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad3 May 2027
Abdallah El Nenny 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.
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Upbeat
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 40. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Gustavo Figueiredo damages knee ligaments — 92 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 92 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
No sign of nerves from Ashraf Mohsen at 20 — 8.25
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Ashraf Mohsen did not need any: 8.25, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Match3 Apr 2027
Whatever happens, Masr El Makasa do not lose
9 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Words at Masr El Makasa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abdallah El Nenny 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.
Squad5 Apr 2027
A season average of 7.26 with 12 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Trezeguet Fathy 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 terraces5 Apr 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Ashraf Mohsen 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.
Match3 Apr 2027
It finished 1‑0, and it was Ashraf Mohsen’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Masr El Makasa.
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Upbeat
Squad22 Mar 2027
Gustavo Figueiredo damages knee ligaments — 106 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 106 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Kwame Partey gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Kwame Partey has just signed for Masr El Makasa, and for once the answer mattered.
Match20 Mar 2027
Whatever happens, Masr El Makasa do not lose
7 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Words at Masr El Makasa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abdallah El Nenny 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.
Player ratings22 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Trezeguet Fathy 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.
Player ratings22 Mar 2027
Ramadan Ashour was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.10. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Match20 Mar 2027
ENPPI held the lead for 1 minutes, which is not long enough to enjoy it. Masr El Makasa answered before the celebration had properly finished, and the shape of the afternoon changed with it.
Match20 Mar 2027
It needed Ibrahim Warda to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against ENPPI, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
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Upbeat
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 44. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad15 Mar 2027
114 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Masr El Makasa lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match13 Mar 2027
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Masr El Makasa did not have in the autumn.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Abdallah El Nenny 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.
Squad15 Mar 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Trezeguet Fathy commits to Masr El Makasa for another 4 years.
Squad15 Mar 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Masr El Makasa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match13 Mar 2027
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Market15 Mar 2027
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
Off the bench and decisive: Ibrahim Warda
The substitution nobody applauded turned out to be the whole story. Masr El Makasa were going nowhere until he came on.
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Upbeat
Squad8 Mar 2027
121 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Masr El Makasa lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 37. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
No sign of nerves from Ashraf Mohsen at 20 — 8.37
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Ashraf Mohsen did not need any: 8.37, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Match6 Mar 2027
4 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Mahmoud El Shenawy 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.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Defences have started doubling up on Abdallah El Nenny
12 goals and a season average of 7.26 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
Ninety minutes of Abdallah El Nenny at his very best
Marked 8.23. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Masr El Makasa.
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Upbeat
Player ratings1 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 57. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad1 Mar 2027
128 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Masr El Makasa lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market1 Mar 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Masr El Makasa can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings1 Mar 2027
Ashraf Mohsen, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.73
A mark of 7.73 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Match27 Feb 2027
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Masr El Makasa have 3 straight wins of it.
Squad1 Mar 2027
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Masr El Makasa are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad1 Mar 2027
A last season at home is what Lance Rozeboom is after
It is sentimental, it is completely genuine, and it is the beginning of a departure nobody has announced. The club can be gracious about it or it can pretend not to have heard.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Abdallah El Nenny 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.
The terraces1 Mar 2027
At 20 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.
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Upbeat
Squad22 Feb 2027
The words a physio says slowly. 27 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market22 Feb 2027
“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 Masr El Makasa, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.35, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Words at Masr El Makasa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abdallah El Nenny 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.
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Steady
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 57. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Victor Ntokon gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Victor Ntokon has just signed for Masr El Makasa, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words at Masr El Makasa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abdallah El Nenny 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.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
Petrojet will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Mohamed Khalifa has pre-agreed a move to Masr El Makasa, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Squad8 Feb 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Masr El Makasa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Ninety minutes of Abdallah El Nenny at his very best
Marked 8.16. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Masr El Makasa.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
Masr El Makasa release $92.7K for the manager
The board have put money on the table rather than an encouraging word. What happens to it now is somebody else's problem, and somebody else's job.
Match6 Feb 2027
It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Market8 Feb 2027
Vittorio Gambardella is 20, and Masr El Makasa have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
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Upbeat
Player ratings1 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 37. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market1 Feb 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Abdallah El Nenny 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Masr El Makasa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match30 Jan 2027
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad1 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Lance Rozeboom, and the manager let it.
Squad1 Feb 2027
5 new faces, and Masr El Makasa 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.
Loan watch1 Feb 2027
22 appearances away from home and 5 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
Market1 Feb 2027
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Amr Sobhi may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
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Upbeat
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 40. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market25 Jan 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
A brace, and Abdallah El Nenny takes the afternoon — 8.27
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Abdallah El Nenny provided it, and the 8.27 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Masr El Makasa will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match23 Jan 2027
3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Words at Masr El Makasa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ramadan Ashour 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.
Match23 Jan 2027
Three points for Masr El Makasa, 3‑1 the final word against Aswan in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Ibrahim Warda 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
“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.
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Upbeat
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
Two goals and a mark of 8.24 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 27 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
Ashraf Mohsen, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.69
A mark of 7.69 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Abdallah El Nenny 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Trezeguet Trezeguet 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 terraces18 Jan 2027
At 20 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
39 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Match16 Jan 2027
It finished 2‑0, and it was Ramadan Ashour’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Masr El Makasa.
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Upbeat
Squad11 Jan 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 34 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad11 Jan 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad11 Jan 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ali El Hadary commits to Masr El Makasa for another 3 years.
Squad11 Jan 2027
José Vieira gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. José Vieira has just signed for Masr El Makasa, and for once the answer mattered.
Match9 Jan 2027
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Abdallah El Nenny. 3‑1 against Police Union, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
The terraces11 Jan 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Mohamed Abdelnasser 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 ratings11 Jan 2027
Ninety minutes of Abdallah El Nenny at his very best
Marked 8.23. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Masr El Makasa.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.09, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Market11 Jan 2027
He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
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Steady
Match2 Jan 2027
0‑3 to Zamalek, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Masr El Makasa will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad4 Jan 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Masr El Makasa may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad4 Jan 2027
There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Masr El Makasa will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Words at Masr El Makasa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mahmoud El Shenawy 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.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 40. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad28 Dec 2026
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.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
A brace, and Ali El Hadary takes the afternoon — 8.87
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Ali El Hadary provided it, and the 8.87 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words at Masr El Makasa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abdallah El Nenny 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.
Match26 Dec 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Ali El Hadary. 3‑1 against El Dakhleya, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Trezeguet Fathy 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.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Ninety minutes of El Sayed Soliman at his very best
Marked 8.27. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Masr El Makasa.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Achraf Hermach 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 Achraf Hermach trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Loan watch28 Dec 2026
The goals keep arriving from Mohamed Mohsen’s exile
4 goals in 17 games at MB Rouissat — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Masr El Makasa updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
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Steady
Market21 Dec 2026
Liverpool Montevideo arrived with $9.5M and left with the best player in the building. The board will call it business; the queue at the ticket office will use other words.
Match19 Dec 2026
A 1‑7 beating by Al Ahly was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market21 Dec 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
The terraces21 Dec 2026
Supporters turn on the $9.5M sale of Mostafa El Shenawy
He is going to Liverpool Montevideo, the club has $9.5M 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.
The terraces21 Dec 2026
The boos come down from three sides
“We pay for this every fortnight. The least we want is somebody who looks like he cares.” 6 of the 22 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.
Match19 Dec 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 8 goals between Masr El Makasa and Al Ahly, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Abdallah El Nenny 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
“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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad14 Dec 2026
A season average of 7.33 with 15 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Mahmoud El Shenawy 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Trezeguet Fathy 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.
Match12 Dec 2026
It needed Mostafa El Shenawy to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Ittihad, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
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Upbeat
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 36. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match5 Dec 2026
There were 85 minutes on the clock and Arab Contractors had all but banked the point. Football rarely reads the room, and Masr El Makasa did not stop to explain themselves.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
No sign of nerves from Ashraf Mohsen at 20 — 7.80
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Ashraf Mohsen did not need any: 7.80, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Match5 Dec 2026
Nobody wants to play Masr El Makasa right now
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad7 Dec 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Masr El Makasa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A season average of 7.31 with 14 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Match5 Dec 2026
A 3‑2 win over Arab Contractors, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Abdallah El Nenny 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Trezeguet Trezeguet and Masr El Makasa agree another 2 years.
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Upbeat
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 53. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
A brace, and Abdallah El Nenny takes the afternoon — 8.26
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Abdallah El Nenny provided it, and the 8.26 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad30 Nov 2026
18 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Ibrahim Warda scored one and made one — 7.90
Two of the goals had his name somewhere on them, which is the afternoon a manager wants from anybody asked to both create and finish. 7.90, and 2 involvements.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words at Masr El Makasa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abdallah El Nenny 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Ibrahim Warda 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Lance Rozeboom, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 40. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match18 Nov 2026
Zamalek go through and Masr El Makasa go home, 0‑1 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A fracture rules El Sayed Soliman out for 14 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Masr El Makasa will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad23 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Masr El Makasa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words at Masr El Makasa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mahmoud El Shenawy 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
“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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 44. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad16 Nov 2026
A fracture rules El Sayed Soliman out for 21 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Masr El Makasa will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Mostafa El Shenawy 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.
Market16 Nov 2026
The shirt still fits. Amr Sobhi is back at Masr El Makasa, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words at Masr El Makasa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abdallah El Nenny 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.
Match14 Nov 2026
1‑2 to Petrojet, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad16 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Achraf Hermach
“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.
Market16 Nov 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Masr El Makasa know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Off the bench and decisive: Ismail Ashraf
The substitution nobody applauded turned out to be the whole story. Masr El Makasa were going nowhere until he came on.
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Steady
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 52. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A fracture rules El Sayed Soliman out for 28 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Masr El Makasa will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Two goals and a mark of 9.23 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
A brace, and Abdallah El Nenny takes the afternoon — 8.22
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Abdallah El Nenny provided it, and the 8.22 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad9 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Masr El Makasa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Abdallah El Nenny 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
13 goals and a season average of 7.22. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
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Crisis
Squad2 Nov 2026
A fracture rules El Sayed Soliman out for 35 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Masr El Makasa will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 28. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad2 Nov 2026
49 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Mahmoud El Shenawy 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.
Match31 Oct 2026
Smouha left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad2 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Masr El Makasa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad26 Oct 2026
A fracture rules El Sayed Soliman out for 42 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Masr El Makasa will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad26 Oct 2026
The match ball belongs to Mostafa El Shenawy, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
A performance of 9.55 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Abdallah El Nenny 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Masr El Makasa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces26 Oct 2026
At 20 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.
Loan watch26 Oct 2026
8 appearances away from home and 4 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
In brief
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The terraces
The crowd stays with them
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The terraces
The press have found their man in Mostafa El Shenawy
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad19 Oct 2026
A fracture rules El Sayed Soliman out for 49 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Masr El Makasa will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 28. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Mostafa El Shenawy 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Masr El Makasa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abdallah El Nenny 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“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.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Marked 8.12 — 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.
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Steady
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 49. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A fracture rules El Sayed Soliman out for 56 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Masr El Makasa will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market12 Oct 2026
“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 Masr El Makasa, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Masr El Makasa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mahmoud El Shenawy 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Masr El Makasa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ismail Ashraf, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Squad5 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 64 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Mostafa El Shenawy 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Masr El Makasa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abdallah El Nenny 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Trezeguet Trezeguet and Masr El Makasa agree another 1 years.
Match3 Oct 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
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Steady
Match12 Sep 2026
Police Union will want this one forgotten quickly: 5‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Masr El Makasa were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A fracture rules El Sayed Soliman out for 86 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Masr El Makasa will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad14 Sep 2026
3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.13, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.52, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Abdallah El Nenny 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Ismail Ashraf 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.
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Steady
Squad7 Sep 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 94 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market7 Sep 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Masr El Makasa can pretend not to have heard.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
A defender's goal wins it for Masr El Makasa — 7.14
1 for Achraf Hermach, marked 7.14, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market7 Sep 2026
The deal that would have taken Ali Aboutrika to Petrojet has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Masr El Makasa with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
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Steady
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 41. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 101 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market31 Aug 2026
The offer from PWD Bamenda for Ali El Hadary 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
The name of Mostafa El Shenawy has come up in conversations Masr El Makasa were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Market31 Aug 2026
“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 Masr El Makasa, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad31 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Masr El Makasa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
Masr El Makasa spend $200.0K on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $200.0K for Ismail Ashraf, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Ramadan Ashour 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.
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Crisis
Squad24 Aug 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 108 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match22 Aug 2026
0‑3 against Al Ahly, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Market24 Aug 2026
The offer from Al Ahly for Trezeguet Trezeguet 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
“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.
Market24 Aug 2026
The name of Ali El Hadary has come up in conversations Masr El Makasa were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad24 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Masr El Makasa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Masr El Makasa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abdallah El Nenny 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 64. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 115 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market17 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market17 Aug 2026
The name of Trezeguet Trezeguet has come up in conversations Masr El Makasa were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad17 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Masr El Makasa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Masr El Makasa
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Abdallah El Nenny 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Fathy El Mohamady has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market17 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Shikabala Aboutrika has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.