Omar Khalfan

Attacking Midfielder (C) - Al Ahli
14 Nov 2026
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Marked for Omar Khalfan

8 Edition

The Al Ahli Post

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match19 Sep 2026

Mahmoud Al Hammadi leads the rout of Emirates Club

3‑0, and Mahmoud Al Hammadi took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Al Ahli tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

Mahmoud Al Hammadi scores twice — 8.45

Two goals and a mark of 8.45 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Mahmoud Al Hammadi 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.

The dugout21 Sep 2026

Walid Hassan: “That is the standard”

“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 3‑0, already talking about the next one.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Mahmoud Al Hammadi named player of the week

One weekend, judged against everybody else's. Mahmoud Al Hammadi has come out on top of it, and for most footballers a weekly award is the only silverware a career ever produces.

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

Abdelilah Hafidi beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 12. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Ali Saeed makes his debut at 17

At 17 years old, Ali Saeed became the latest name off the academy production line to be handed a senior shirt.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Salem Mabkhout finally opens his account

He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Al Ahli have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.

The dugout21 Sep 2026

No place in the plan for Omar Khalfan

The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.

In brief

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The Al Ahli Post

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Transfer targets14 Sep 2026

No deal for Moussa N'Diaye at that price

Al Ahli offered $3.9M; Al Nasr said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

Squad14 Sep 2026

The step up is real for Bandar Hassan

At 19 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Transfer targets14 Sep 2026

The window shuts on the Modou Niang deal

Al Ahli ran out of time with Al Ain. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

The game went through Omar Khalfan — 6.90

Marked 6.90 on 12 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.

Match12 Sep 2026

Al Ahli come up short against Al Shabab

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

The dugout14 Sep 2026

Abdelmounaim Boutouil gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

The dugout14 Sep 2026

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Walid Hassan to a room that had heard them before.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Tempers go at Al Ahli

Mahmoud Obaid 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.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Hamdan Suqrat stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Hamdan Suqrat and Al Ahli agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

In brief

4 Edition

The Al Ahli Post

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad24 Aug 2026

A knee injury of the worst kind for Éder Lima

29 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Al Ahli lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market24 Aug 2026

Salem Mabkhout asks to leave Al Ahli

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market24 Aug 2026

Khalfan Al Bloushi agrees terms with Al Nasr

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Al Ahli people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Market24 Aug 2026

Al Ahli say no — this time

The offer from Al-Ra'ed for Khalid Al Hammadi was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Transfer targets24 Aug 2026

Door shut on Gerónimo Rivera

Al Ahli asked and Al Wahda said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Words exchanged at Al Ahli

Omar Khalfan and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

In brief

3 Edition

The Al Ahli Post

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market17 Aug 2026

Terms done: Valentino Tedesco is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Rostov waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Al Ahli is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Market17 Aug 2026

Al Ahli turn down MC Alger for Omar Khalfan

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

Al Dhafra tell Al Ahli: Ibrahim Bayesh is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Market17 Aug 2026

Al-Ra'ed watching Khalid Al Hammadi

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Al Ahli have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Al Ahli

Mahmoud Al Hammadi 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.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

Al Ahli baulk at the price for Mayed Muhsin

Sharjah wanted more than $32.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Salem Mabkhout 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.

The dugout17 Aug 2026

Mahmoud Al Hammadi gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Éder Lima stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Éder Lima and Al Ahli agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

In brief