The Al Jazira Herald
Squad7 Sep 2026
Khaled Bani Zamah damages knee ligaments — 14 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 14 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.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Age has not caught Nabil Fekir yet — 7.83
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.83 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Market7 Sep 2026
Papa Gassama 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 Al Jazira can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Mamadou Coulibaly goes up and wins it — 7.93
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.93 for the rest of it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Willyan Rocha 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 Jazira this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Graduation day at Al Jazira
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
Words at Al Jazira training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Milson 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.
Match5 Sep 2026
Nabil Fekir sends Al Jazira past Al Nasr
It finished 2‑1, and it was Nabil Fekir’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Al Jazira.
The terraces7 Sep 2026
The crowd has taken to Mamadou Coulibaly
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
In brief
- Market Ibrahim Hassan steps up from the Al Jazira academy
- Market One of our own: Faisal Hassan joins the Al Jazira first team
- Market Fahad Al Hashmi steps up from the Al Jazira academy