The Al Ahli Post
The terraces23 Apr 2029
Anger at Al Ahli spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Squad23 Apr 2029
Achraf Lazaar damages knee ligaments — 83 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 83 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market23 Apr 2029
Only the photograph left for Ahmed Rashid
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ahmed Rashid will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Al Ahli the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad23 Apr 2029
Words exchanged at Al Ahli
Rashid Al Junaibi 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.
Squad23 Apr 2029
Al Ahli lose Taoufik Ijrouten
18 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad23 Apr 2029
Al Ahli lose a squad player
25 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
In brief
- The dugout Saeed Rashid has been promised minutes
- The dugout Chouaib El Maftoul knocks on the manager’s door
- The dugout Hussein Al-Naasan keeps his manager's vote
- Loan watch Omar Hussain watches his loan from the bench