The Al-Diriyah Sentinel
Squad13 Mar 2028
Abdulaziz Al-Shahrani damages knee ligaments — 49 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 49 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.
Market13 Mar 2028
Davis Vanins puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Al-Diriyah, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad13 Mar 2028
Gaëtan Laborde 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-Diriyah this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad13 Mar 2028
Words at Al-Diriyah training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Waleed Al-Sulami 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.
Market13 Mar 2028
Al-Diriyah sign Sami Al-Khaibari, one for the future
Sami Al-Khaibari is 18, and Al-Diriyah have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
Squad13 Mar 2028
Too much change too quickly at Al-Diriyah
6 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
In brief
- Boardroom Al-Diriyah have to sell first
- Market The Georges-Kévin Nkoudou story refuses to die
- Boardroom The Al-Diriyah production line keeps running