The Al-Nahda Courier
Squad22 May 2028
Majed Abdullah is named among the best
There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Al-Nahda will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.
Squad22 May 2028
Ibrahim Mahnashi 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.
Squad22 May 2028
A move Saman Ghoddos would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Saman Ghoddos is living that version at Al-Nahda, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad22 May 2028
The manager makes an example of Abdulraouf Al-Duqayl
“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.
Market22 May 2028
Al-Nahda sign Saman Ghoddos, one for the future
Saman Ghoddos is 20, and Al-Nahda have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
Market22 May 2028
Experience through the door at Al-Nahda
Mousa Assiri 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.
In brief
- Market Al-Nahda put Mohammed Al-Abdullah up for sale
- Market Still no signature from Ali Al-Eid