Khalid Obaid

Defensive Midfielder - Valledupar
6 Feb 2029
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The Valledupar Post

13 Nov 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom13 Nov 2028

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Valledupar

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

Match13 Nov 2028

Valledupar are in real trouble now

Position 12, 8 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Market13 Nov 2028

Santiago Diaz asks to leave Valledupar

“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.

Squad13 Nov 2028

Tempers go at Valledupar

Francisco Rangel 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.

Boardroom13 Nov 2028

Valledupar counting the cost

The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Valledupar now.

Squad13 Nov 2028

Words at Valledupar training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Duvan Rios 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.

The dugout13 Nov 2028

Cristian Falcao knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Valledupar, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market13 Nov 2028

Valledupar put Hugo Rios up for sale

The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Hugo Rios may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.

Squad13 Nov 2028

Mehdi Fornelli starts on the language

Two hours a week with a tutor, which is the least glamorous thing at Valledupar and the one that decides whether a foreign signing is still here in two years.

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The Al Ahli Post

16 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad16 Aug 2027

Real improvement from Diego Peixoto at Al Ahli

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Diego Peixoto is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Transfer targets16 Aug 2027

Abdulla Al-Hammadi turns down Al Ahli

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: another club keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad16 Aug 2027

Saša Ivković signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Saša Ivković and Al Ahli agree another 2 years.

Squad16 Aug 2027

Bandar Suqrat has improved at 25, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

Squad16 Aug 2027

Saša Ivković 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.

Transfer targets16 Aug 2027

Door shut on Silvère Ganvoula

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

Transfer targets16 Aug 2027

A loan move for Seifeddine Jaziri is in the works

Al Ahli have made the call to Zamalek. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Market16 Aug 2027

Hassan Al Suwaidi linked with a move away

The name of Hassan Al Suwaidi keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Al Ahli say nothing, which says plenty.

The dugout16 Aug 2027

The manager makes Tarek Issaoui a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Al Ahli. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

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