Marked for Amer Suqrat
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match21 Nov 2026
13 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match23 Nov 2026
Every point is an argument now for Al Fujairah
Position 14 and 6 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Squad23 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Al Fujairah may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad23 Nov 2026
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 Fujairah this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
One of those days for Ervin Taha
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.52, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
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Uneasy
Match3 Oct 2026
5 matches without a win for Al Fujairah
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Al Fujairah are no longer polite ones.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Mohammed Abbas 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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages eat 369% of everything Al Fujairah earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
A performance of 8.55 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Amer Suqrat 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
Match3 Oct 2026
It needed Brian Garino to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Emirates Club, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Market5 Oct 2026
Experience through the door at Al Fujairah
Moisés arrives at 36 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Brian Garino finally opens his account
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Al Fujairah have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
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Steady
Market31 Aug 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Al Fujairah, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market31 Aug 2026
The chase for Amer Suqrat ended with $440.0K changing hands and Al Shaab out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Arnaldo Giménez 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
Business is business: Fahad Barout goes
Al Shaab paid $200.0K and Al Fujairah took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Naser Salem, and the manager let it.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Al Fujairah would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
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Steady
Market31 Aug 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Al Shaab, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market31 Aug 2026
Al-Ittihad come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Al Shaab did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market31 Aug 2026
The paperwork is done: Fahad Barout joins from Al Fujairah in a deal worth $200.0K. Now comes the harder part.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Hamad Suqrat 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 Shaab this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market31 Aug 2026
Al Fujairah pay $440.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Squad31 Aug 2026
No hiding place for Ali Juma
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ali Juma, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market10 Aug 2026
Amer Suqrat 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 Shaab can pretend not to have heard.
Squad10 Aug 2026
28 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Abdullah Hussain and Al Shaab agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Hamad Suqrat 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 Shaab this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
23 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.