The Al Shabab Post
Squad3 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Khalid Yaqoob
33 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Al Shabab turn down Baniyas for Khalid Hassan
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Al Shabab make their move for Mohamed Kanno
$2.5M on the table at Al-Hilal. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Al Shabab bid $2.0M for Igor Serrote
The offer went to Al Jazira this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Market3 Aug 2026
Bandar Obaid wants more than Al Shabab 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Al Shabab
Saeed Al Naqbi and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market3 Aug 2026
Lokomotiv join the queue for Nasser Al Naqbi
Add another name to the list: Lokomotiv have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Nasser Al Naqbi. The answer from Al Shabab has not changed — yet.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Al Shabab rebuffed over Mats Bångsbo
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Al Jazira have kept their man, and Al Shabab go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Al Shabab
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Hamad Khalfan was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
In brief
- The dugout Bandar Obaid asks for a word with the manager
- Market Hamdan Al Naqbi told to find a new club
- Squad Ali Suqrat takes the armband