Ibrahim Abdulrahman

Goalkeeper - Al Shabab
24 Oct 2026
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Marked for Ibrahim Abdulrahman

12 Edition

The Al Shabab Post

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad19 Oct 2026

Ahmed Ismail breaks a bone — 23 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 23 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad19 Oct 2026

Ibrahim Abdulrahman keeps Al Shabab in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad19 Oct 2026

Salem Al Menhali is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 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.

Squad19 Oct 2026

Chapa 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 Shabab this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings19 Oct 2026

Saleh Abu Al-Shamat runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings19 Oct 2026

Ninety minutes of Salem Al Menhali at his very best

Marked 8.86. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Al Shabab.

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The Al Shabab Post

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad14 Sep 2026

A one-man rearguard from Ibrahim Abdulrahman

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.

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

Up for the corner, and Bandar Al Naqbi delivers — 7.50

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Bandar Al Naqbi scored, was marked 7.50, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Real improvement from Youssef Wael at Al Shabab

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Youssef Wael is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Ali Juma 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 Shabab this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match12 Sep 2026

Khalfan Al Kamali’s goal not enough for Al Shabab

Khalfan Al Kamali scored, and precious little else went right: 2‑3 to Al Nasr, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Words at Al Shabab training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Chapa 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.

The terraces14 Sep 2026

The crowd has taken to Khalfan Al Kamali

At 23 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.

Market14 Sep 2026

Al Dhafra join the queue for Amer Al Bloushi

Add another name to the list: Al Dhafra have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Amer Al Bloushi. The answer from Al Shabab has not changed — yet.

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

Khalfan Al Kamali was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.05. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

In brief

5 Edition

The Al Shabab Post

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market31 Aug 2026

Al Shabab sell their best player to Shakhtar

$10.6M is a serious amount of money and it does not play centre-forward. Everybody in the dressing room knows who used to be looked at when it went wrong.

Squad31 Aug 2026

A knee injury of the worst kind for Rashid Al Menhali

19 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Al Shabab lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

The terraces31 Aug 2026

Al Shabab sell a favourite for $10.6M

The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Majed Rashid was one of the reasons people came, and $10.6M does not replace that by itself.

Market31 Aug 2026

Bandar Juma asks to leave Al Shabab

“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.

Market31 Aug 2026

Al Shabab say no — this time

The offer from Dibba for Ismail Al Naqbi was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Al Shabab

Chapa 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.

In brief