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The Al Shabab Post
3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market3 Aug 2026
Rafael Costa wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Al Shabab hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Al Shabab
Khalfan Nader 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Al Shaab watching Mahmoud Al Hammadi
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Al Shabab have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
In brief
- Squad Words at Al Shabab training over how hard people work
- Squad Khalid Yaqoob stays put
- Market Amer Juma is free to find somewhere else
- Squad Rafael Costa knocks on the manager's door