Hamad Al-Otaibi

Goalkeeper - Al-Njoom
31 Oct 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Hamad Al-Otaibi

12 Edition

The Al-Mojzel Sentinel

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The wait goes on for Al-Mojzel

8 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Market

Waleed Al-Sulami 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-Mojzel can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Sami Al-Hassan

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 ratings

Sami Al-Sulami runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Ahmed Al-Qahtani 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-Mojzel this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

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.

In brief

Back issues
8 Edition

The Al-Mojzel Sentinel

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Ahmed Al-Qahtani

There were 10 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.

Match

Al-Mojzel taken apart

0‑5 to Al-Hazem, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Match

4 matches without a win for Al-Mojzel

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Al-Mojzel are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Rashid Al-Otaibi 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-Mojzel this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

3 matches without a goal for Al-Mojzel

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Squad

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.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Sami Al-Sulami

“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.

Boardroom

Nobody left the Al-Mojzel dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

Loan watch

Hamad Al-Otaibi has seen enough of Al-Njoom

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Al-Mojzel, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.

In brief