Emad Fathy

Striker - Aswan U18
18 Feb 2027
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28 Edition

The Aswan Post

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad8 Feb 2027

Ali Mhamdi keeps Aswan in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Boardroom8 Feb 2027

Fathy Kahraba has until the next board meeting

What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Aswan can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.

Squad8 Feb 2027

Emad Fathy breaks a bone — 21 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 21 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings8 Feb 2027

Both of them Mujeeb Odifeso's — 8.67

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.67, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Match6 Feb 2027

The drought breaks for Aswan

7 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and El Dakhleya were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.

Squad8 Feb 2027

A row about effort at Aswan

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mahmoud Wahid was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The terraces8 Feb 2027

One of their own: Seidu Basit

He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Match6 Feb 2027

Mujeeb Odifeso sends Aswan past El Dakhleya

It finished 2‑0, and it was Mujeeb Odifeso’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Aswan.

The dugout8 Feb 2027

The manager’s verdict

“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Fathy Kahraba kept it short after the 2‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.

In brief

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The Aswan Post

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad1 Feb 2027

Emad Fathy breaks a bone — 28 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 28 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match1 Feb 2027

Aswan sink to position 16

13 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Boardroom1 Feb 2027

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Aswan

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Match30 Jan 2027

7 matches without a win for Aswan

The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Aswan are no longer polite ones.

Squad1 Feb 2027

Ali Mhamdi keeps Aswan 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.

Market1 Feb 2027

Cyriaque Sylla 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 Aswan can pretend not to have heard.

Boardroom1 Feb 2027

Deadline passes with 0 signed and 0 gone

That is the business done at Aswan until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

Market1 Feb 2027

So close: Khaled Walid’s move dies late

The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Military Production moved on, Khaled Walid reports back to Aswan, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.

Transfer targets1 Feb 2027

Aswan rebuffed over Hady Reyad

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Al Ahly have kept their man, and Aswan go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

In brief

26 Edition

The Aswan Post

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces25 Jan 2027

The mood at Aswan has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Match20 Jan 2027

Aswan bow out of the cup

Smouha go through and Aswan go home, 2‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

Squad25 Jan 2027

Emad Fathy breaks a bone — 36 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 36 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad25 Jan 2027

A one-man rearguard from Ali Mhamdi

There were 8 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.

Market25 Jan 2027

Julius Ikechukwu 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 Aswan can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets25 Jan 2027

Fee done, terms next for Baher Elmohamady

Aswan and El Masry have settled on $1.9M. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.

Market25 Jan 2027

Mohamed El Fayoumi has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Aswan they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Match23 Jan 2027

No end in sight to Aswan's wait for a win

6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Aswan has to find a result from somewhere.

Player ratings25 Jan 2027

Ahmed Hamoudi, 36, rolls back the years — 8.26

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.26 at 36, and nobody on the pitch was better.

In brief

25 Edition

The Aswan Post

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad18 Jan 2027

44 days out for Emad Fathy after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Aswan will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Squad18 Jan 2027

8 saves: Ali Mhamdi was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Market18 Jan 2027

Khaled Walid has said yes to Military Production

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Aswan have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Transfer targets18 Jan 2027

Hassan Ali is a medical away from Aswan

The deal with El Masry is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Market18 Jan 2027

Momen Mohamed Abd Rabo asks to leave Aswan

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Match16 Jan 2027

The wait goes on for Aswan

4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Boardroom18 Jan 2027

Aswan to lose Mohamed El Fayoumi for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Mohamed El Fayoumi has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

Squad18 Jan 2027

Mahmoud Wahid 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.

Squad18 Jan 2027

Seidu Basit 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 Aswan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

24 Edition

The Aswan Post

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad11 Jan 2027

Cyriaque Sylla damages knee ligaments — 16 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 16 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.

Squad11 Jan 2027

Emad Fathy breaks a bone — 52 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 52 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market11 Jan 2027

Mohamed El Fayoumi 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 Aswan can pretend not to have heard.

Market11 Jan 2027

Terms done: Abdelrahman Magdy is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Paradou waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Aswan is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Market11 Jan 2027

Aswan say no — this time

The offer from Petrojet for Mohamed El Fayoumi was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

The dugout11 Jan 2027

Ahmed Ibrahim keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Aswan may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Transfer targets11 Jan 2027

Ali Hussein due for a Aswan medical

Everything agreed with Wadi Degla, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Squad11 Jan 2027

Mahmoud Wahid 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.

Squad11 Jan 2027

A falling-out at Aswan

Seidu Basit and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

In brief

2 Edition

The Aswan Post

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

The paperwork begins on Karim Fouad

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Aswan have done the hard part with Al Ahly, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

No thanks: Ahmed Waheb rejects the move

Aswan had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at El Masry, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Mahmoud Wahid 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.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Door shut on Vinicius Mello

Aswan asked and Al Jazira said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Seidu Basit 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 Aswan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market10 Aug 2026

One of our own: Amr Ghaly joins the Aswan first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Amr Ghaly is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market10 Aug 2026

Ashraf Ghaly steps up from the Aswan academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ashraf Ghaly 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

One of our own: Fathy El Shenawy joins the Aswan first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Fathy El Shenawy is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market10 Aug 2026

One of our own: Emad Fathy joins the Aswan first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Emad Fathy is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief