Kaveh Karimi

Left Midfielder - Al-Njoom
26 Nov 2028
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The Al-Njoom Post

14 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

15 matches without a win for Al-Njoom

The run now stands at 15, and the questions being asked around Al-Njoom are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Abu-Muslim Khamkhoev breaks a bone — 110 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 110 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Vitaliy Tkachuk 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 The request is on a desk at Al-Njoom, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Muath Al-Habib 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 Al-Njoom this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Al-Fayha take the points off Al-Njoom

Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

Home is on Abu-Muslim Khamkhoev's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Al-Njoom are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Squad

Arthur Baggio falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Player ratings

Ukeme Williams runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 13. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

Bandile Dlamini never got going

5.71 on the card. Some afternoons a footballer looks like a man who has only just been introduced to the game, and this was one of them.

In brief

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The Al-Njoom Post

17 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The wait goes on for Al-Njoom

11 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

A fracture rules Mohammed Al-Buladi out for 110 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Al-Njoom will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Arthur Baggio 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-Njoom can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Al-Njoom turn down Ohod for Arthur Baggio

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

Ahmed Al-Shehri keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Al-Njoom may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Player ratings

Christos Kryparakos runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Suhayb Al-Zaid 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 Al-Njoom this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Al-Njoom cannot find the net

3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.

Squad

Words at Al-Njoom training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ukeme Williams 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