The Al Fujairah Post
The terraces19 Jul 2032
Anger at Al Fujairah spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Squad19 Jul 2032
A knee injury of the worst kind for Zayid Sultan
80 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Al Fujairah lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match19 Jul 2032
Al Fujairah are in real trouble now
Position 14, 5 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2032
Too dear: Al Fujairah walk away from Brahian Palacios
$2.5M was the most the club would pay and Al Jazira 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.
Market19 Jul 2032
Mahmoud Al Naqbi puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Al Fujairah, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad19 Jul 2032
Souleymane Diaby 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 Al Fujairah this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Jul 2032
Zago Zegarra 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 targets19 Jul 2032
Door shut on Yussif Suleiman
Al Fujairah asked and Al Wasl said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad19 Jul 2032
Home is on David Eze's mind
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Al Fujairah are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
In brief
- Transfer targets A loan move for Thiab Mohamed is in the works
- The dugout Hazaa Ammar knocks on the manager’s door
- Market Al Fujairah and Akito Mukai are talking past each other