The Police Union Courier
Squad16 Aug 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Alexander Jakobsen
52 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Police Union lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad16 Aug 2027
A fracture rules Ahmed Rabie out for 33 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Police Union will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Real improvement from Moustapha Sidibé at Police Union
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Moustapha Sidibé is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Boardroom16 Aug 2027
Graduation day at Police Union
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Words at Police Union training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Saleh Gomaa 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.
Market16 Aug 2027
Shikabala Tarek steps up from the Police Union academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Shikabala Tarek 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.
In brief
- Market Police Union promote Ramadan El Shenawy from within
- Market Police Union promote Karim Hassan from within
- Market Omar Elneny steps up from the Police Union academy
- Boardroom Police Union spend where nobody can see it