The Al Ahly Sentinel
Match15 Aug 2026
Al Ahly run riot against El Dakhleya
4‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Both of them Trezeguet's — 8.01
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.01, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Market17 Aug 2026
Rivers United come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Al Ahly did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Al Ahly
Emam Ashour was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Zizo runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Al Ahly lose Hussein El Shahat
20 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Al Ahly
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Zizo 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
One of our own: Salah Hamdi joins the Al Ahly first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Salah Hamdi is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Abdallah Hamdi steps up from the Al Ahly academy
- Market One of our own: El Sayed Warda joins the Al Ahly first team
- Player ratings Achraf Bencharki in the eights