Saeed Juma

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18 Edition

The Al Ain Chronicle

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings30 Nov 2026

Valentino Lazaro beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 38. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad30 Nov 2026

Defences have started doubling up on Giorgos Giakoumakis

14 goals and a season average of 7.45 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Squad30 Nov 2026

Words at Al Ain training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Soufiane Rahimi 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.

Player ratings30 Nov 2026

Giorgos Giakoumakis in the eights

A performance of 8.65 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad30 Nov 2026

Ramy Rabia reaches 200 appearances

200 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.

Match28 Nov 2026

Late, late show earns Al Ain a point

Minute 94, against Baniyas, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.

Boardroom30 Nov 2026

Wages swallow 110% of the Al Ain income

Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.

Squad30 Nov 2026

Đorđe Skoko wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Al Ain know it.

Match28 Nov 2026

Al Ain and Baniyas take a point apiece

It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

In brief

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4 Edition

The Al Ain Chronicle

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad24 Aug 2026

Words at Al Ain training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Soufiane Rahimi 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.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Al Ain

Ramy Rabia 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.

Market24 Aug 2026

The Valentino Lazaro question follows Al Ain around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Valentino Lazaro’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

The dugout24 Aug 2026

Saeed Juma gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Baba Bello Ilou remains an outsider

A year in and the city has not opened up, the language has not come, and lunch is eaten alone more often than anybody at Al Ain would admit. It shows on Saturdays.

Squad24 Aug 2026

A wage question at Al Ain

Khalid Eisa has done the arithmetic and does not like the answer. Nothing corrodes a squad faster, and no club has ever solved it by explaining the wage structure to a footballer.

In brief

2 Edition

The Al Ain Chronicle

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market10 Aug 2026

Not going: Houssine Rahimi stays at Al Ain

“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Al-Wehda had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Words exchanged at Al Ain

Ramy Rabia 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.

The dugout10 Aug 2026

Giorgos Giakoumakis gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Market10 Aug 2026

Al Ain promote Mohamed Ismail from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Mohamed Ismail has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market10 Aug 2026

Al Ain promote Nasser Khalfan from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Nasser Khalfan has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market10 Aug 2026

Al Ain promote Saeed Juma from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Saeed Juma has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

In brief