Marked for Sandro Greco
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market7 Dec 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Ahmed Al-Qahtani 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words at Al-Mojzel training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rashid Al-Otaibi 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.
Loan watch7 Dec 2026
“I did not go to Hajer to sit and watch. I want to come back to Al-Mojzel and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 17 matches say the rest.
Match5 Dec 2026
A 1‑0 win over Al-Jeel, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Hassan Al-Ahmadi and Al-Mojzel agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Abdullah Al-Dosari, and the manager let it.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Marked 7.88. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Crisis
Match14 Nov 2026
No end in sight to Al-Mojzel's wait for a win
12 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Al-Mojzel has to find a result from somewhere.
Market16 Nov 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Sandro Greco: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Al-Mojzel have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad16 Nov 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Rashid Al-Otaibi 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.
Match14 Nov 2026
A bad afternoon for Al-Mojzel against Ohod
0‑2 to Ohod, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad16 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Sami Al-Sultan
“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.
Loan watch16 Nov 2026
“I did not go to Al-Njoom to sit and watch. I want to come back to Al-Mojzel and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 13 matches say the rest.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Uneasy
Match31 Oct 2026
10 matches without a win for Al-Mojzel
The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around Al-Mojzel are no longer polite ones.
Squad2 Nov 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Waleed Al-Sulami 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.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.93 on the card, and the Al-Mojzel support went home talking about one name.
Loan watch2 Nov 2026
“I did not go to Al-Batin to sit and watch. I want to come back to Al-Mojzel and fight for my place.” 6 appearances in 11 matches say the rest.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Ahmed Al-Qahtani is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
Match31 Oct 2026
A 1‑1 draw with Al-Batin leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sandro Greco, and the manager let it.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 9. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Steady
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.
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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Rashid Al-Otaibi 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.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Marked 7.97 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Al-Mojzel had the best player on the pitch.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Ahmed Al-Qahtani is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
Match5 Sep 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sandro Greco, and the manager let it.
Market7 Sep 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.