Marked for Waleed Al-Hassan
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Crisis
Market23 Nov 2026
“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.
Match23 Nov 2026
Al-Mojzel sink to position 14
8 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Squad23 Nov 2026
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Sultan Al-Dosari 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.
Match21 Nov 2026
0‑2 to Al-Shoulla, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad23 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Hamad Al-Salem
“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.
Back issues
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Crisis
Match12 Sep 2026
0‑5 to Al-Fayha, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match9 Sep 2026
The small margins put Al-Mojzel out
Out, 0‑4 to Al-Wehda, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
The terraces14 Sep 2026
Al-Mojzel are taken apart by Al-Wehda — and the town wants answers
It finished 0-4. A cup exit is a disappointment; this was a public dismantling, and the difference between the two is the number of people who will still be talking about it in August.
The terraces14 Sep 2026
The boos come down from three sides
“We pay for this every fortnight. The least we want is somebody who looks like he cares.” 7 of the 35 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.
Market14 Sep 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Al-Mojzel training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Hamad Al-Salem 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.
Squad14 Sep 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-Mojzel this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Nasser Al-Harbi
“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.
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Steady
Match5 Sep 2026
3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Squad7 Sep 2026
3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Market7 Sep 2026
“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.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
A performance of 9.56 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Market7 Sep 2026
Add another name to the list: Ohod have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Waleed Al-Hassan. The answer from Al-Mojzel has not changed — yet.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Hamad Al-Salem 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.
Squad7 Sep 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-Mojzel this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces7 Sep 2026
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Waleed Al-Hassan
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Waleed Al-Hassan has come out of that comparison in the side, and Al-Mojzel have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
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Crisis
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-Mojzel, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
A brace, and Nasser Al-Zahrani takes the afternoon — 8.87
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Nasser Al-Zahrani provided it, and the 8.87 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Sultan Al-Dosari 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Al-Ta'ee left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Al-Mojzel training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nasser Al-Harbi 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Every debut is a small story about the future: Waleed Al-Khaibari, 17 years old, off the academy pitches and into the first team. The parents in the stand will keep the programme.
Market31 Aug 2026
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Khalid Al-Salem may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
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Uneasy
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A brace, and Nasser Al-Zahrani takes the afternoon — 8.67
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Nasser Al-Zahrani provided it, and the 8.67 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad24 Aug 2026
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market24 Aug 2026
“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-Mojzel can pretend not to have heard.
Squad24 Aug 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-Mojzel this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Hamad Al-Salem 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Hamad Al-Salem
“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.
Match22 Aug 2026
A 2‑2 draw with Al-Jeel leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market24 Aug 2026
Al-Mojzel have made Salman Al-Sultan available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.