The Sharjah Chronicle
Match5 Jul 2027
Sharjah up to position 2
58 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Transfer targets5 Jul 2027
Medical ends the Adib Zarei deal
Everything was agreed with Tractor and then the doctor spoke. Sharjah have walked away from a signing on the advice of somebody who never saw him play, which is how it is supposed to work.
Market5 Jul 2027
Charles Pickel raises the bar for Sharjah
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Sharjah heard it as anything else.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Sultan Nader is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 15 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad5 Jul 2027
A row about effort at Sharjah
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Charles Pickel was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets5 Jul 2027
Sharjah rebuffed over Ilja Pomazun
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Spartak Moscow have kept their man, and Sharjah go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Sultan Saeed signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Sultan Saeed commits to Sharjah for another 1 years.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Words exchanged at Sharjah
Sultan Saeed and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Transfer targets5 Jul 2027
Sharjah try to borrow Abdullah Al-Hamddan
Al-Nassr have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
In brief
- Transfer targets Sharjah ask about Marco Nasti
- Boardroom Intake day at the Sharjah academy
- The dugout When it matters, Khaled Ebraheim plays