Mahmoud Omar

Central Midfielder - Al Ahli
18 Oct 2027
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61 Edition

The Al Ahli Post

27 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout27 Sep 2027

Amoory: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Al Ahli have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Player ratings27 Sep 2027

No sign of nerves from Walid Yaqoob at 20 — 7.65

The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Walid Yaqoob did not need any: 7.65, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Market27 Sep 2027

Omar Ismail 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 Ahli can pretend not to have heard.

Market27 Sep 2027

Only the photograph left for Khalid Yaqoob

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Khalid Yaqoob will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Al Ahli the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad27 Sep 2027

A falling-out at Al Ahli

Ismail Al Suwaidi and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad27 Sep 2027

Real improvement from Mahmoud Omar at Al Ahli

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Mahmoud Omar is 17, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Player ratings27 Sep 2027

Ahmed Mabkhout runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match25 Sep 2027

Whatever happens, Al Ahli do not lose

6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Squad27 Sep 2027

Words at Al Ahli training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gilmário Menezes is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

In brief

  • Squad Ahmed Zaki has improved at 25, which nobody expected
  • The dugout Somebody else is better right now than Ameh Godwin
  • The dugout When it matters, Saeed Suqrat plays
Back issues
49 Edition

The Al Ahli Post

5 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad5 Jul 2027

Mahmoud Omar is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 17 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad5 Jul 2027

Words at Al Ahli training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Juan Pablo Álvarez is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad5 Jul 2027

A falling-out at Al Ahli

Ahmed Mabkhout and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets5 Jul 2027

Al Ahli rebuffed over Jônatas

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Al Ain have kept their man, and Al Ahli go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad5 Jul 2027

A late step up for Nasser Al Shamsi

At 29 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.

Market5 Jul 2027

Still no ink between Al Ahli and Ameh Godwin

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Al Ahli, another week without a signature from Ameh Godwin.

Boardroom5 Jul 2027

8 new boys at the Al Ahli academy

Signed today, seen by nobody for years, and one of them may one day be the reason the club exists. That is the whole of the argument for an academy, and it is a good one.

The dugout5 Jul 2027

When it matters, Saeed Suqrat plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

The dugout5 Jul 2027

Abdullateef Ishola 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.

In brief

23 Edition

The Al Ahli Post

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad4 Jan 2027

The knee: Mahmoud Omar out for 19 days

19 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Al Ahli lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market4 Jan 2027

Nasser Al Bloushi puts it in writing

“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 Ahli, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match2 Jan 2027

Cruel end for Emirates Club as Al Ahli pounce

There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Al Ahli scored in the 93th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.

Player ratings4 Jan 2027

Ali Khalfan, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.66

A mark of 7.66 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Market4 Jan 2027

Al Ahli say no — this time

The offer from Al Wasl for Ali Khalfan 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.

Market4 Jan 2027

Juan Pablo Álvarez has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Al Ahli can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Squad4 Jan 2027

Words exchanged at Al Ahli

Alessio Sala 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.

Match2 Jan 2027

The drought breaks for Al Ahli

6 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Emirates Club were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.

Transfer targets4 Jan 2027

Al Ahli rebuffed over Abderahmane Soussi

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Al Dhafra have kept their man, and Al Ahli go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

In brief