Sultan Nader

Right Midfielder - Sharjah
9 Sep 2027
Thursday
Process

Marked for Sultan Nader

49 Edition

The Sharjah Chronicle

5 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

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 targets

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.

Market

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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 targets

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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 targets

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

Back issues
5 Edition

The Sharjah Chronicle

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Sharjah turn down Al Wahda for Vladimir Prijović

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Transfer targets

Petter Nosa Dahl turns down Sharjah

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Rapid Wien keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Transfer targets

No deal for Mateo Karamatić at that price

Sharjah offered $540.0K; Al Nasr said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

Squad

Words exchanged at Sharjah

Luan Pereira 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 targets

Door shut on Pavlo Isenko

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

Squad

Sharjah count the cost of losing Hamad Al Junaibi

33 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Market

Al Ain are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Sharjah will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

Squad

Words at Sharjah training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abdollah Esmaeili 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.

Looking ahead

Saldanha goes back to face Al Wasl

Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Saldanha’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Sharjah needing him to play as if none of it matters.

In brief