Abraham Schlupp

Goalkeeper - Military Production
18 Jul 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Abraham Schlupp

49 Edition

The Military Production Herald

5 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

The knee: Mohamed Abdelmaguid out for 130 days

130 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Military Production lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match

Every point is an argument now for Military Production

Position 18 and 4 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Boardroom

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Military Production

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Transfer targets

Fee done, terms next for Amro Tarek

Military Production and Al Gaish have settled on $80.0K. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Ziad Mohamed

Military Production asked and Wadi Degla said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Boardroom

Intake day at the Military Production academy

5 arrivals, an average age nobody would call a squad, and a set of parents being shown around a building their sons will spend more time in than at home. The scouting has already happened; today is only the paperwork.

The dugout

Youssef Ali has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Military Production will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Squad

Mahmoud El Alamy is doing the arithmetic

The table has started to be checked before the results are in, and that is always the tell. Nobody at Military Production says the word out loud, and everybody in the building is thinking it.

Squad

A season on the outside for Abraham Schlupp

He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Military Production has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.

In brief

Back issues
46 Edition

The Military Production Herald

14 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

The knee: Mohamed Abdelmaguid out for 152 days

152 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Military Production lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Transfer targets

$380.0K settles it between the clubs for Mohamed Ibrahim

Zamalek have accepted the money. What Military Production do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.

Market

Mohamed Essam 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 Military Production, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Mahmoud El Alamy

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Military Production have done the hard part with El Dakhleya, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Market

Mostafa Abdelwahab is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Military Production is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Boardroom

Military Production to lose Mostafa Abdelwahab for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Mostafa Abdelwahab has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Ali Zaki

Military Production asked and Masr El Makasa said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Words exchanged at Military Production

Mohamed Essam and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

Nerves in the Military Production squad

Mohamed Abdelmaguid has been around long enough to know what the spring feels like when it goes wrong, and he can feel it. A dressing room that is frightened plays like one.

In brief

44 Edition

The Military Production Herald

31 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Khaled Ramadan has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Military Production they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Tempers go at Military Production

Mohamed Sosta 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.

Market

Experience through the door at Military Production

Abraham Schlupp arrives at 33 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.

In brief