The Al Shabab Post
Squad7 Sep 2026
A day Fernando Farias will not forget
5 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.
Match5 Sep 2026
No mercy from Al Shabab
Al Ahli will want this one forgotten quickly: 6‑3, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Al Shabab were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Match5 Sep 2026
Al Shabab turn it around against Al Ahli
Going 2 down does something to a side, and what it usually does is finish them. Not here. Al Shabab rebuilt the afternoon goal by goal, and Al Ahli had no answer to any of it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A one-man rearguard from Khalid Rashid
There were 7 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.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Ali Saeed, 34, rolls back the years — 7.99
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.99 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Market7 Sep 2026
Abdullah Mabkhout 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Al Shabab
Khalid Rashid 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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Graduation day at Al Shabab
3 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Al Shabab training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Khalid Saeed 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.
In brief
- The terraces The crowd has taken to Ismail Nader
- Market One of our own: Walid Al Bloushi joins the Al Shabab first team
- Market Fahad Al Bloushi steps up from the Al Shabab academy