El Sayed Marwan

Left Forward - Masr El Makasa
18 Sep 2026
Friday
Process

Marked for El Sayed Marwan

7 Edition

The Masr El Makasa Courier

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

6 saves: Karim Hamdi was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Market

Ramadan El Hadary 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 The request is on a desk at Masr El Makasa, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets

Masr El Makasa rebuffed over Gabriel Bontempo

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Santos have kept their man, and Masr El Makasa go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Match

Masr El Makasa see off Zamalek

Three points for Masr El Makasa, 2‑1 the final word against Zamalek in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings

Abdallah Trezeguet was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.24. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Player ratings

A masterclass from El Sayed Marwan

Marked 8.11 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

The dugout

No hiding place for Ali Fathi

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ali Fathi, and the manager let it.

Loan watch

Mostafa Hamdi has seen enough of Police Union

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Masr El Makasa, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.

Squad

A row about effort at Masr El Makasa

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Abdelrahman Mano was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

In brief

Back issues
4 Edition

The Masr El Makasa Courier

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Aris Thessaloniki come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Masr El Makasa did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Trezeguet Soliman 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 Masr El Makasa, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

A move Ibrahim Adel would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Ibrahim Adel is living that version at Masr El Makasa, and it tends to show in the first month.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Abdelrahman Mano

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

Transfer targets

Masr El Makasa baulk at the price for Osama Ahmed

Ittihad wanted more than $32.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Squad

Tempers go at Masr El Makasa

Ibrahim Aboul-Yazid 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.

Squad

Ibrahim Adel signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ibrahim Adel and Masr El Makasa agree another 3 years.

Match

Masr El Makasa rescue it on 89 minutes

Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 89. Al Ahly had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.

Squad

7 new faces, and Masr El Makasa are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

In brief