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The Al-Nahda Courier

19 Jun 2034
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad19 Jun 2034

Hassan Rabea 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-Nahda this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad19 Jun 2034

Saad Al-Ghamdi gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Saad Al-Ghamdi has just signed for Al-Nahda, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad19 Jun 2034

Ndzi Yaouba 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

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The Al-Nahda Courier

6 Jun 2033
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom6 Jun 2033

It is over: Al-Nahda are relegated

The arithmetic ran out, and everybody could see it coming from a distance. The hard summer starts now, and next season's fixtures will be full of unfamiliar names.

Squad6 Jun 2033

Mohammed Al-Juhani damages knee ligaments — 71 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 71 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.

Boardroom6 Jun 2033

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Al-Nahda

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Boardroom6 Jun 2033

the manager has until the next board meeting

What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Al-Nahda can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.

Market6 Jun 2033

Fahad Al-Ahmadi hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Al-Nahda can pretend not to have heard.

Market6 Jun 2033

Salman Al-Matar attracts admirers

The name of Salman Al-Matar has come up in conversations Al-Nahda were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad6 Jun 2033

Hassan Rabea 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-Nahda this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad6 Jun 2033

Ndzi Yaouba 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.

Squad6 Jun 2033

The manager makes an example of Hassan Al-Musallam

“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.

In brief