The Hajer Post
Player ratings21 Aug 2028
Age has not caught Shahab Zahedi yet — 8.05
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.05 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Match19 Aug 2028
Nobody wants to play Hajer right now
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Transfer targets21 Aug 2028
Damac tell Hajer: Yahya Naji 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.
Transfer targets21 Aug 2028
Hajer baulk at the price for Mohammed Al-Shanqiti
Al-Faisaly wanted more than $270.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Boardroom21 Aug 2028
Still nobody in the Hajer dugout
11 days with the chair empty, a list of names that grows and shrinks by the day, and not one signature on anything. Every week that passes takes the best candidates off it.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Hajer lose Husniddin G'afurov
60 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Abdullah Al-Shamekh is slowing down
At 36, 3 points below where he was, and a body that has started charging interest. It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph on this page.
Match19 Aug 2028
Hajer find a way past Najran
Najran made Hajer work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Fahad Al-Shammari out for 36 days
The medical room confirms 36 days on the sidelines for Fahad Al-Shammari, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
In brief
- The dugout Abdullah Al-Shamekh gets it from the manager
- Player ratings Wadhah Zaidi was unplayable
- Squad 7 new faces, and Hajer are still learning each other