The El Masry Chronicle
Market12 Apr 2027
Only the photograph left for Bambo
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Bambo will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around El Masry the goodbyes have quietly begun.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
Amr El Saadawy says El Masry went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad12 Apr 2027
A falling-out at El Masry
Moustafa Zeidan and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Words at El Masry training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Salah Mohsen 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.
Market12 Apr 2027
El Masry promote Emad Kahraba from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Emad Kahraba 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.
Market12 Apr 2027
Trezeguet Aboutrika steps up from the El Masry academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Trezeguet Aboutrika has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market12 Apr 2027
One of our own: El Sayed Warda joins the El Masry first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. El Sayed Warda is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
Trezeguet Kahraba 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.
Squad12 Apr 2027
The division's best last weekend was a El Masry man
It is a small honour and it is not nothing: somebody watched every match in the division and decided that Mahmoud Al Bloushi was the best thing in any of them.
In brief
- Match El Masry in the hunt for Europe
- Loan watch 5 goals on loan for Hussein Faisal
- The dugout The manager makes Mohamed Hashem a promise