The Al-Nahda Courier
Squad4 Dec 2028
102 days out for Bright Ethaghara after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Al-Nahda will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market4 Dec 2028
Turki Al-Madani puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Al-Nahda, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings4 Dec 2028
Sabri Dahal, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.81
A mark of 7.81 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad4 Dec 2028
Tempers go at Al-Nahda
Kissimbo 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 ratings4 Dec 2028
Rakan Al-Ghamdi was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 21. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Market4 Dec 2028
Nasser Al-Mutairi steps up from the Al-Nahda academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Nasser Al-Mutairi 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.
Market4 Dec 2028
One of our own: Sultan Al-Dawsari joins the Al-Nahda first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Sultan Al-Dawsari is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market4 Dec 2028
Fahad Al-Sultan steps up from the Al-Nahda academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Fahad Al-Sultan 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.
Match2 Dec 2028
Al-Nahda get the job done against Al-Orobah
A 1‑0 win over Al-Orobah, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
In brief
- Player ratings Abdelaziz Mohamed in the eights
- Boardroom Wages swallow 101% of the Al-Nahda income
- Squad A place in the month's best eleven for Danyal Al-Habeeb