The Al Shaab Sentinel
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Omar Abdulrahman, 35, rolls back the years — 8.52
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.52 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Real improvement from Omar Abdulrahman at Al Shaab
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Omar Abdulrahman is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Market14 Sep 2026
Dibba watching Omar Abdulrahman
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Al Shaab have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Match12 Sep 2026
Omar Abdulrahman’s goal not enough for Al Shaab
Omar Abdulrahman scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑3 to Dibba, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Al Shaab
Hamad Suqrat 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Walid Hussain
“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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A late step up for Salem Al Hashmi
At 27 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Hamad Suqrat runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Mohamed Hassan keeps on missing
Shots: 8, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.
In brief
- Player ratings The one thing Mahmoud Al Suwaidi could not do
- Market Al Shaab put Ali Hussain up for sale
- Market Window shut, Salem Al Hashmi still here