The Emirates Club Chronicle
Squad14 Sep 2026
Saud Al-Hosani keeps Emirates Club in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
No thanks: Kauã Moraes rejects the move
Emirates Club had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Cruzeiro, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Diogo Capitão 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.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Door shut on Fabricio Corbalán
Emirates Club asked and Gimnasia La Plata said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Match12 Sep 2026
A bad afternoon for Emirates Club against Al Ahli
0‑2 to Al Ahli, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Market14 Sep 2026
Emirates Club promote Fahad Saeed from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Fahad Saeed 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.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Diogo Capitão 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Jardel reaches 100 appearances
100 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Emirates Club
Mayed Saeed 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.
In brief
- The dugout Omar Mabkhout answers for it
- Looking ahead Isaac Tshibangu faces his old club
- The dugout Saud Al-Hosani does not fit this one