The Al-Khaleej Sentinel
Squad24 Sep 2040
Bandar Al-Harbi damages knee ligaments — 27 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 27 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 Sep 2040
Turki Al-Sultan breaks a bone — 62 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 62 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings24 Sep 2040
A brace, and Thamer Al-Khaibri takes the afternoon — 8.49
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Thamer Al-Khaibri provided it, and the 8.49 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market24 Sep 2040
Only the photograph left for Visham Ayuba
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Visham Ayuba will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Al-Khaleej the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad24 Sep 2040
Abdullah Matuq 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-Khaleej this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match22 Sep 2040
6 goals as Al-Khaleej and Al-Mojzel go for it
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Al-Khaleej and Al-Mojzel, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Match22 Sep 2040
Still nobody has beaten Al-Khaleej
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad24 Sep 2040
Eitan Levy pulls a muscle — 15 days out
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 15 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
Match22 Sep 2040
Honours even between Al-Khaleej and Al-Mojzel
3‑3, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
In brief
- Market The Meshari Sunyur talk will not go away
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Shohruh Fayzullaev
- Boardroom Al-Khaleej keep producing them