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The Al Ahli Post
12 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad12 Jul 2027
Ismail Al Menhali damages knee ligaments — 24 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 24 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match12 Jul 2027
Every point is an argument now for Al Ahli
Position 13 and 11 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Hassan Hussain 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 Ahli this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
In brief
- Squad Al Ahli count the cost of losing Ahmed Al Menhali
- Squad Al Ahli count the cost of losing Hamdan Al Shamsi