The Aswan Post
Squad6 Aug 2029
The knee: Olufemi Kayode out for 55 days
55 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Aswan lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market6 Aug 2029
Tochukwu Ogbadibo 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 Aswan can pretend not to have heard.
Market6 Aug 2029
Aswan turn down Ittihad for Olufemi Kayode
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Transfer targets6 Aug 2029
Mohamed Hany turns down Aswan
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Al Ahly keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad6 Aug 2029
Raymond Anthony signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Raymond Anthony and Aswan agree another 4 years.
Squad6 Aug 2029
Words at Aswan training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sani Abdullahi 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.
Transfer targets6 Aug 2029
Aswan rebuffed over Eyad Tamer
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Al Ahly have kept their man, and Aswan go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad6 Aug 2029
Aswan lose Bassem Ashour
39 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Transfer targets6 Aug 2029
A loan move for Adham Seha is in the works
Aswan have made the call to Haras El Hodoud. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
In brief
- The dugout The manager has not finished forgetting Sayed El Shabrawy's mistake
- The dugout Ntokozo Madondo gets it from the manager
- Boardroom Aswan sign a deal worth $188.6K a year