Ibrahim Saeed

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Al-Ettifaq
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308 Edition

The Al-Ettifaq Sentinel

21 Jun 2032
From our football correspondent Steady

Market21 Jun 2032

Takehiro Sakai 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 The request is on a desk at Al-Ettifaq, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad21 Jun 2032

Ruslan Yunusov says Al-Ettifaq went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Boardroom21 Jun 2032

Al-Ettifaq to lose Ali Al-Mahdawi for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Ali Al-Mahdawi 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.

Squad21 Jun 2032

Álvaro Medrán 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.

Squad21 Jun 2032

Tempers go at Al-Ettifaq

Abdulbasit Hindi 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.

Squad21 Jun 2032

Ibrahim Saeed signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ibrahim Saeed commits to Al-Ettifaq for another 3 years.

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307 Edition

The Al-Ettifaq Sentinel

14 Jun 2032
From our football correspondent Steady

Market14 Jun 2032

Ohod come back empty-handed

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

Market14 Jun 2032

Mohammed Barnawi 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 The request is on a desk at Al-Ettifaq, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market14 Jun 2032

Khalid Al-Ghannam moves on

Al-Ahli pay $4.9M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Squad14 Jun 2032

Ibrahim Saeed gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Ibrahim Saeed has just signed for Al-Ettifaq, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad14 Jun 2032

Words at Al-Ettifaq training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Álvaro Medrán 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.

Squad14 Jun 2032

Majed Al Menhali 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-Ettifaq this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

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