Sultan Omar

Attacking Midfielder (C) - Al Ahli
26 Jan 2027
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Marked for Sultan Omar

26 Edition

The Al Ahli Post

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad25 Jan 2027

A fracture rules Hamdan Nader out for 74 days

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

Match23 Jan 2027

7 matches without a win for Al Ahli

The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Al Ahli are no longer polite ones.

Player ratings25 Jan 2027

Mohamed Al Suwaidi runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad25 Jan 2027

Mohamed Al Suwaidi 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 Ahli this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match23 Jan 2027

Al Ahli 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.

Squad25 Jan 2027

The manager makes an example of Yusuf Akçiçek

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Match23 Jan 2027

Al Ahli come up short against Al Wasl

Al Wasl left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Market25 Jan 2027

Al-Hilal join the queue for Walid Ismail

Add another name to the list: Al-Hilal have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Walid Ismail. The answer from Al Ahli has not changed — yet.

Squad25 Jan 2027

Sultan Omar dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

In brief

Back issues
20 Edition

The Al Ahli Post

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings14 Dec 2026

Youssef Ismail runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 52. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market14 Dec 2026

Youssef Ismail wants more than Al Ahli 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.

Squad14 Dec 2026

Tempers go at Al Ahli

Yusuf Akçiçek 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.

The terraces14 Dec 2026

Al Ahli supporters have found a favourite in Hamdan Mabkhout

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Hamdan Mabkhout has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Match12 Dec 2026

Salem Omar the difference as Al Ahli beat Emirates Club

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Salem Omar. 1‑0 against Emirates Club, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings14 Dec 2026

The afternoon belonged to Salem Omar

A mark of 7.80, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

In brief