Bassem Marwan

Central Midfielder - Free Agent
3 Oct 2029
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112 Edition

The El Masry Chronicle

18 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad18 Sep 2028

Bassem Marwan breaks a bone — 15 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 15 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings18 Sep 2028

Abderrahim Deghmoum runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 29. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market18 Sep 2028

Youssef El Gohary has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around El Masry they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Match16 Sep 2028

Nobody wants to play El Masry right now

3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Squad18 Sep 2028

Words exchanged at El Masry

Karim El Eraki 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.

Match16 Sep 2028

El Masry see off Ittihad

Three points for El Masry, 1‑0 the final word against Ittihad in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad18 Sep 2028

Words at El Masry training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mohamed El Shami 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.

Player ratings18 Sep 2028

Nobody on the pitch touched Hussein Faisal

7.95, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. El Masry had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

Squad18 Sep 2028

The formation has left Hossam Ashraf behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. El Masry will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

In brief

Back issues
111 Edition

The El Masry Chronicle

11 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad11 Sep 2028

Bassem Marwan breaks a bone — 23 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 23 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market11 Sep 2028

Only the photograph left for Bismark Asante

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Bismark Asante will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around El Masry the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Player ratings11 Sep 2028

Vintage Bambo — 8.05

At 35 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.05, and nobody on the pitch better.

The dugout11 Sep 2028

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Squad11 Sep 2028

Karim El Eraki in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at El Masry this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad11 Sep 2028

Mahmoud Alaa 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.

Player ratings11 Sep 2028

Abderrahim Deghmoum was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 20. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Match9 Sep 2028

El Masry get the job done against Arab Contractors

A 1‑0 win over Arab Contractors, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

The dugout11 Sep 2028

No hiding place for Ahmed Said

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ahmed Said, and the manager let it.

In brief

  • Squad Mahmood Aliyu signs a new deal
  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • The dugout Hussein Faisal has become a man the manager trusts
110 Edition

The El Masry Chronicle

4 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad4 Sep 2028

A fracture rules Bassem Marwan out for 30 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason El Masry will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market4 Sep 2028

Bismark Asante asks to leave El Masry

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market4 Sep 2028

El Masry turn down Zamalek for Mohamed Hashem

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Boardroom4 Sep 2028

Deadline passes with 10 signed and 9 gone

That is the business done at El Masry until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

Squad4 Sep 2028

A falling-out at El Masry

Karim El Eraki and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match2 Sep 2028

El Masry see off Ghazl El Mahalla

Three points for El Masry, 2‑1 the final word against Ghazl El Mahalla in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Match2 Sep 2028

El Masry settle it inside twenty minutes

2 goals before the ground had finished arriving. Ghazl El Mahalla spent the rest of the afternoon playing a match that had already been decided, and everybody in the stadium knew it.

Player ratings4 Sep 2028

Abderrahim Deghmoum in the eights

A performance of 8.20 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Market4 Sep 2028

Talks stall between El Masry and Mahmoud Alaa

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

In brief

  • Squad 4 El Masry players away with their countries
  • The dugout Emad Gabr: “That is the standard”
  • The dugout Bambo has become a man the manager trusts
109 Edition

The El Masry Chronicle

28 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad28 Aug 2028

Bassem Marwan breaks a bone — 37 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 37 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market28 Aug 2028

Youssef El Gohary agrees terms with ENPPI

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around El Masry people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Market28 Aug 2028

Amr Shaaban asks to leave El Masry

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

The dugout28 Aug 2028

Koffi keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” El Masry may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Boardroom28 Aug 2028

Amr Gomaa signs for Ittihad while still at El Masry

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Amr Gomaa has agreed terms with Ittihad for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Squad28 Aug 2028

Words exchanged at El Masry

Karim El Eraki 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.

Market28 Aug 2028

Amr Gomaa has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around El Masry they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Player ratings28 Aug 2028

Hussein Faisal was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 21. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Squad28 Aug 2028

Toumani Diakité gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Toumani Diakité has just signed for El Masry, and for once the answer mattered.

In brief

108 Edition

The El Masry Chronicle

21 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad21 Aug 2028

A fracture rules Bassem Marwan out for 44 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason El Masry will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market21 Aug 2028

Nwanna Okechukwu has said yes to Ghazl El Mahalla

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. El Masry have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Player ratings21 Aug 2028

Nobody could get near Abderrahim Deghmoum

Successful dribbles: 29. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings21 Aug 2028

Vintage Mahmoud Hamada — 8.11

At 34 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.11, and nobody on the pitch better.

Market21 Aug 2028

Koffi hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what El Masry can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets21 Aug 2028

El Masry rebuffed over Khaled Al-Nabris

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Ismaily have kept their man, and El Masry go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad21 Aug 2028

The step up is real for Ahmed Gaber

At 23 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Squad21 Aug 2028

Tempers go at El Masry

Karim El Eraki 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.

Squad21 Aug 2028

Mahmoud Hamada has improved at 34, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 4 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

In brief