The Al Ahli Post
Transfer targets12 Jun 2028
Al Ahli baulk at the price for Luan Pereira
Sharjah wanted more than $6.4M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Squad12 Jun 2028
Youssef Al Hammadi signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Youssef Al Hammadi commits to Al Ahli for another 5 years.
The dugout12 Jun 2028
Hussain Mahdi 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.
Squad12 Jun 2028
Al Ahli lose Peter Sadiq
23 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad12 Jun 2028
The formation has left Gastón Suárez behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Al Ahli will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
The dugout12 Jun 2028
Majed Omar gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Majed Omar is on it.
Market12 Jun 2028
Al Ahli bring in an old head
Gastón Suárez is 35 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.
Market12 Jun 2028
The Salem Al Menhali talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Al Ahli know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad12 Jun 2028
Gastón Suárez accepts less at Al Ahli
Not every move is upward. He has taken terms worse than the ones he left, and the only question that matters now is whether the football makes up the difference.
In brief
- Market Al Ahli put Achraf Lazaar up for sale
- The dugout Nahuel López asks for a word with the manager
- Market Jacob Awoute goes out on loan