The Arab Contractors Post
Squad10 Aug 2026
Hesham Balaha gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Hesham Balaha has just signed for Arab Contractors, and for once the answer mattered.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Too dear: Arab Contractors walk away from Emad Soliman
$1.3M was the most the club would pay and Masr El Makasa were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Arab Contractors bid $570.0K for Salah Ashour
The offer went to Masr El Makasa this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Arab Contractors go back to the board over Salah Ashour
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $611.9K — a club that wants Salah Ashour enough to be asked twice.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Ahmed Ouled Behi stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Ahmed Ouled Behi and Arab Contractors agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Arab Contractors
Ahmed Ouled Behi 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Ramadan Marwan steps up from the Arab Contractors academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ramadan Marwan 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Arab Contractors promote Bassem Hegazi from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Bassem Hegazi 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
One of our own: Bassem Tarek joins the Arab Contractors first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Bassem Tarek is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Bassem Warda steps up from the Arab Contractors academy
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Ahmed Ouled Behi
- Squad Charles Bassey falls out with a teammate over standards