The Emirates Club Chronicle
Squad10 Aug 2026
Ali Saqr damages knee ligaments — 169 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 169 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
No deal for Mohammed Abdulbasit at that price
Emirates Club offered $1.1M; Al Nasr said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Emirates Club go back to the board over Mohammed Abdulbasit
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $1.1M — a club that wants Mohammed Abdulbasit enough to be asked twice.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Emirates Club
Leandrinho and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
An offer of $69.0K for Hazim Abbas
Emirates Club have gone to Al Ain with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Emirates Club make their move for Ahmed Obaid
$22.0K on the table at Al Shabab. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Rashed Essa Juma signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Rashed Essa Juma and Emirates Club agree another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Jardel wants to go home
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Emirates Club can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Al Shabab tell Emirates Club: Nasser Al Suwaidi is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
In brief
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