The Al-Ta'ee Chronicle
Squad10 Aug 2026
A move Sakhile Mkhize would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Sakhile Mkhize is living that version at Al-Ta'ee, and it tends to show in the first month.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Al-Riyadh tell Al-Ta'ee: Adulrahman Al-Shammari 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Rakan Al-Shamlan attracts admirers
The name of Rakan Al-Shamlan has come up in conversations Al-Ta'ee were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Market10 Aug 2026
Bandar Al-Shammari steps up from the Al-Ta'ee academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Bandar Al-Shammari 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Bandar Al-Mansour steps up from the Al-Ta'ee academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Bandar Al-Mansour 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Al-Ta'ee promote Yasser Al-Shammari from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Yasser Al-Shammari has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Al-Ta'ee training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nawaf Al-Osaimi 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Sakhile Mkhize signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Sakhile Mkhize and Al-Ta'ee agree another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Hassan Al-Amri 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-Ta'ee this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Ali Al-Jassem
- Looking ahead Looking ahead: Al-Jeel at home