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Edition
The Al Ahli Post
16 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad16 Aug 2027
Real improvement from Hussein Al-Naasan at Al Ahli
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Hussein Al-Naasan is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad16 Aug 2027
A late step up for Hamdan Nader
At 26 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Hamdan Nader falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
In brief
- Squad Home is on Rahid Ismayilov's mind
- Market Salem Al Menhali linked with a move away
- Market Sultan Obaid leaves for nothing
- Market Ahmed Al Bloushi leaves for nothing