Michael Kirwan

Goalkeeper - Damac
26 Nov 2028
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Marked for Michael Kirwan

108 Edition

The Damac Gazette

21 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match19 Aug 2028

Still nobody has beaten Damac

The unbeaten run reaches 8. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Market21 Aug 2028

Dhari Al-Anazi wants more than Damac are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Squad21 Aug 2028

Tempers go at Damac

Jonathan Okita 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.

Squad21 Aug 2028

Real improvement from Michael Kirwan at Damac

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Michael Kirwan is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Market21 Aug 2028

Al-Njoom join the queue for Amidou Traoré

Add another name to the list: Al-Njoom have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Amidou Traoré. The answer from Damac has not changed — yet.

Squad21 Aug 2028

A late step up for David Kaiki

At 24 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 4 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.

Squad21 Aug 2028

Mohammad Alsalkhadi gets it from the manager

“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.

Match19 Aug 2028

Damac make home a hard place to visit

8 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Player ratings21 Aug 2028

The afternoon belonged to Sanousi Al-Hawsawi

7.45, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Damac had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

In brief

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104 Edition

The Damac Gazette

24 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad24 Jul 2028

A knee injury of the worst kind for Kevin Owusu

34 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Damac lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market24 Jul 2028

Saif Al-Omari 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 Damac, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad24 Jul 2028

A late step up for Jonathan Okita

At 31 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.

Squad24 Jul 2028

Michael Kirwan is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 18 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.

Market24 Jul 2028

Al-Njoom join the queue for Amidou Traoré

Add another name to the list: Al-Njoom have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Amidou Traoré. The answer from Damac has not changed — yet.

Squad24 Jul 2028

Sanousi Al-Hawsawi in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Damac this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

100 Edition

The Damac Gazette

26 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market26 Jun 2028

Hazzaa Al-Ghamdi is on his way

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

Squad26 Jun 2028

Thamer Al-Shahrani signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Thamer Al-Shahrani and Damac agree another 4 years.

Squad26 Jun 2028

Tempers go at Damac

Jonathan Okita 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.

Squad26 Jun 2028

Saif Al-Omari gets it from the manager

“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.

Market26 Jun 2028

Damac sign Michael Kirwan, one for the future

Michael Kirwan is 18, and Damac 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.

Market26 Jun 2028

The Mohammed Al-Ahmadi conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: Al-Batin will make the call about Mohammed Al-Ahmadi this week. Damac have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

In brief