The Al Shabab Post
Squad23 Aug 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Hassan Rashid
144 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Al Shabab lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Khalfan Saeed is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Market23 Aug 2027
Al Shabab turn down JS Saoura for Bandar Al Hashmi
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Abdullah Al-Muaiouf 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 Shabab this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Fahad Abdulrahman has improved at 29, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Loan watch23 Aug 2027
Bandar Saeed wants to come home
“I did not go to CR Belouizdad to sit and watch. I want to come back to Al Shabab and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
In brief
- Market Rashid Juma leaves for nothing
- Market Sultan Abdulrahman leaves for nothing