The Al-Hazem Herald
Market20 Feb 2034
Nasser Al-Dawsari 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 The request is on a desk at Al-Hazem, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market20 Feb 2034
Jaloliddin Hasanov is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Al-Hazem is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad20 Feb 2034
Dunga arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Dunga has, at Al-Hazem, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Boardroom20 Feb 2034
Salman Al-Ghamdi will join Al-Hazem for nothing
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Salman Al-Ghamdi has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Al-Hazem have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Squad20 Feb 2034
Words at Al-Hazem training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yaseen Al-Jaber 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.
Match18 Feb 2034
Al-Hazem find a way past Al-Nahda
Al-Nahda made Al-Hazem work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
The terraces20 Feb 2034
The crowd has taken to Samat Suyumbayev
At 19 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Squad20 Feb 2034
A falling-out at Al-Hazem
Abdullah Al-Dossari and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings20 Feb 2034
Nobody could get near Samat Suyumbayev
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Ali Al-Sulami
- Player ratings Muath Al-Habib takes the honours
- Market Al-Hazem buy the years ahead of Dunga