Ismail Al Junaibi

Right Midfielder - Al Shaab
10 Oct 2026
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7 Edition

The Al Shaab Sentinel

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad14 Sep 2026

Ibrahim Rashid is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 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.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Anthony Rosell 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.

Match12 Sep 2026

Honours even between Al Shaab and Dibba

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

The chances came and went for Vugar Bayramov

4 shots, and a count that reads like a good afternoon until you check the other column. Strikers survive weeks like this on the understanding that the chances keep arriving; the day they stop is the day it becomes a problem.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Mahmoud Abdulrahman dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

Squad14 Sep 2026

No hiding place for Ibrahim Rashid

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ibrahim Rashid, and the manager let it.

In brief

Back issues
6 Edition

The Al Shaab Sentinel

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings7 Sep 2026

A debut Ismail Al Junaibi will not forget — 7.65

There is exactly one of these per career and it does not usually go like this. 1 on the scoresheet, 7.65 beside the name, and a crowd that had never seen him before chanting it by the end.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Vugar Bayramov 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 Shaab this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Real improvement from Ibrahim Saeed at Al Shaab

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Ibrahim Saeed is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Boardroom7 Sep 2026

Graduation day at Al Shaab

5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Erick Rossi 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

The manager makes an example of Walid Saeed

“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.

Market7 Sep 2026

One of our own: Majed Rashid joins the Al Shaab first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Majed Rashid is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market7 Sep 2026

Faisal Al Kamali steps up from the Al Shaab academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Faisal Al Kamali has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market7 Sep 2026

Al Shaab promote Khalfan Al Shamsi from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Khalfan Al Shamsi has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

In brief