Fahad Al-Nemer

Striker - Al-Khaleej U18
17 Oct 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Fahad Al-Nemer

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The Al-Khaleej Sentinel

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Fahad Al-Nemer

19 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Al-Khaleej lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market

Al-Shabab come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Al-Khaleej did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Anthony Moris

There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Joshua King yet — 8.53

At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.53 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Market

Hamad Al-Jayzani 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 The request is on a desk at Al-Khaleej, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Tempers go at Al-Khaleej

Joshua King 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.

Market

Al-Khaleej sell Bart Schenkeveld for $900.0K

Bart Schenkeveld has left for Al-Hilal in a $900.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Squad

Mohammed Al-Khabrani falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Match

Honours even between Al-Khaleej and Al-Nassr

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The Al-Khaleej Sentinel

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Fahad Al-Nemer

26 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Al-Khaleej lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Player ratings

A defender's afternoon for Bart Schenkeveld

Defensive actions: 30. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Joshua King yet — 9.22

At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 9.22 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad

Anthony Moris keeps Al-Khaleej in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad

Tempers go at Al-Khaleej

Omar Mascarell 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.

Boardroom

3 academy players handed senior numbers at Al-Khaleej

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Player ratings

One of those days for Giorgos Masouras

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.31, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Match

Joshua King the difference as Al-Khaleej beat Al-Wehda

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

Player ratings

Omar Mascarell was immovable

20 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.

In brief