Sultan Nader

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Marked for Sultan Nader

78 Edition

The Al Ahli Post

24 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad24 Jan 2028

Sultan Nader damages knee ligaments — 15 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 15 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.

Squad24 Jan 2028

Stojan Leković keeps Al Ahli in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Market24 Jan 2028

Majed Hassan 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 Ahli can pretend not to have heard.

Market24 Jan 2028

Ahmed Al Junaibi has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Al Ahli they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad24 Jan 2028

Mattheus Oliveira 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.

Squad24 Jan 2028

The manager makes an example of Mattheus Oliveira

“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.

Match22 Jan 2028

Al Wasl take the points off Al Ahli

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Player ratings24 Jan 2028

Ismail Al Menhali runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The terraces24 Jan 2028

The spotlight tightens on Tanque

Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.

In brief

Back issues
77 Edition

The Al Ahli Post

17 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad17 Jan 2028

Sultan Nader damages knee ligaments — 22 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 22 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.

Match15 Jan 2028

Al Ahli turn it around against Al Nasr

Going 2 down does something to a side, and what it usually does is finish them. Not here. Al Ahli rebuilt the afternoon goal by goal, and Al Nasr had no answer to any of it.

Match15 Jan 2028

Al Ahli cannot stop winning

3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Squad17 Jan 2028

Youssef Al Shamsi 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.

Match15 Jan 2028

Khalfan Abdulrahman the difference as Al Ahli beat Al Nasr

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Khalfan Abdulrahman. 3‑2 against Al Nasr, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad17 Jan 2028

Erik gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Player ratings17 Jan 2028

Ninety minutes of Ismail Al Menhali at his very best

Marked 8.73. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Al Ahli.

Player ratings17 Jan 2028

Khalfan Abdulrahman in the eights

A performance of 8.37 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad17 Jan 2028

Mohamed Ali left out for the big one

A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Mohamed Ali will call it something else in private.

In brief

76 Edition

The Al Ahli Post

10 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad10 Jan 2028

A knee injury of the worst kind for Sultan Nader

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

Match8 Jan 2028

Al Ahli win it in stoppage time

The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 94th minute. Al Shaab will replay every second of the added time for a week.

Player ratings10 Jan 2028

Both of them Youssef Al Shamsi's — 8.29

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.29, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad10 Jan 2028

Stojan Leković keeps Al Ahli 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.

Player ratings10 Jan 2028

Age has not caught Tanque yet — 8.51

At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.51 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad10 Jan 2028

Ahmed Al Junaibi keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Al Ahli may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Player ratings10 Jan 2028

Nobody could get near Ismail Al Menhali

Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad10 Jan 2028

Mattheus Oliveira 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.

Match8 Jan 2028

Youssef Al Shamsi the difference as Al Ahli beat Al Shaab

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Youssef Al Shamsi. 3‑2 against Al Shaab, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

In brief