The Al Wahda Post
Market7 Sep 2026
Yaser Alo Ali asks to leave Al Wahda
“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.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Age has not caught Dušan Tadić yet — 8.04
At 37 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.04 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Real improvement from Yaser Alo Ali at Al Wahda
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Yaser Alo Ali is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Graduation day at Al Wahda
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Saša Ivković 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Rúben Canedo 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 Wahda this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match5 Sep 2026
Al Wahda see off Dibba
Three points for Al Wahda, 2‑1 the final word against Dibba in a contest settled by the finer margins.
The terraces7 Sep 2026
Al Wahda supporters have found a favourite in Brahima Diarra
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Brahima Diarra has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Market7 Sep 2026
Fahad Khalfan steps up from the Al Wahda academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Fahad Khalfan has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
In brief
- Market Al Wahda promote Khalfan Saeed from within
- Market One of our own: Amer Hassan joins the Al Wahda first team
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Brahima Diarra