The Al-Njoom Post
Match12 Feb 2028
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.
Squad14 Feb 2028
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.
Market14 Feb 2028
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 The request is on a desk at Al-Njoom, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad14 Feb 2028
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.
Match12 Feb 2028
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.
Squad14 Feb 2028
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.
Squad14 Feb 2028
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 ratings14 Feb 2028
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 ratings14 Feb 2028
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
- Player ratings Abdulrahman Talal never got going
- Player ratings Off the bench and decisive: Kaveh Karimi
- Market Window shut, Arthur Baggio still here