Turki Al-Rashid

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12 Feb 2028
Saturday
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Marked for Turki Al-Rashid

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The Al-Nahda Courier

3 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom

Al-Nahda put Sultan Al-Qahtani on notice

The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.

Market

Sami Al-Sheikh 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-Nahda can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Turki Al-Rashid: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Al-Nahda have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Al-Nahda count the cost of losing Arkell Jude-Boyd

51 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Khalil Al-Absi

Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Tempers go at Al-Nahda

Faisal Al-Subiani 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.

Squad

Words at Al-Nahda training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jorge Zárate 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.

The terraces

Al-Nahda supporters have found a favourite in Abdullah Al-Zaid

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Abdullah Al-Zaid has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Match

Abdullah Al-Zaid the difference as Al-Nahda beat Al-Njoom

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Abdullah Al-Zaid. 2‑0 against Al-Njoom, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

In brief

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The Al-Nahda Courier

15 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Abdullah Al-Zaid

Successful dribbles: 54. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

Al-Nahda tear Al-Mojzel apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 4‑0 against Al-Mojzel, and it could have been more.

Squad

At 15, Turki Al-Rashid is already the best thing here

An average of 6.56 in a first team he is several years too young for. Al-Nahda have something, and by now the whole division has noticed.

Player ratings

Aboubakkar Moussa scores twice — 8.76

Two goals and a mark of 8.76 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad

Ali Al-Abdullatif: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Al-Nahda have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Faisal Al-Subiani 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-Nahda this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Al-Nahda training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abdullah Al-Zaid 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.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Aboubakkar Moussa

At 22 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.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Khalil Al-Absi at his very best

Marked 8.02. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Al-Nahda.

In brief