The Al-Batin Herald
Squad10 Jul 2028
A fracture rules Salem Al-Saleem out for 51 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Al-Batin will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market10 Jul 2028
Kirill Chernyavskiy hands in a written request
“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-Batin can pretend not to have heard.
Squad10 Jul 2028
Simon Falette 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-Batin this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Jul 2028
Faraj Al-Dhefiri is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 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.
Market10 Jul 2028
A long bet from Al-Batin on Samat Logvinenko
He is 19, and nobody at Al-Batin signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Squad10 Jul 2028
The manager makes an example of Yousef Fawaz
“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.
In brief
- Market Al-Batin shop where it costs nothing
- Market Mohammed Al-Sahli leaves for nothing