The Al-Diriyah Sentinel
Match9 Sep 2026
The cup run ends for Al-Diriyah
0‑1 against Al-Ittihad, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Market14 Sep 2026
Nikola Vasilj moves on
CSKA Moscow pay $5.1M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Omar Colley goes up and wins it — 5.86
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 5.86 for the rest of it.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Enzo Millot pops up at the right end — 7.80
7.80, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Match12 Sep 2026
Al-Diriyah get the job done against Ohod
A 2‑1 win over Ohod, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Market14 Sep 2026
One of our own: Nasser Al-Mansour joins the Al-Diriyah first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Nasser Al-Mansour is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Georges-Kévin Nkoudou was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.22. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Market14 Sep 2026
Óscar raises the bar for Al-Diriyah
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Al-Diriyah heard it as anything else.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Omar Colley 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.
In brief
- The dugout The manager’s verdict
- The dugout The manager has not finished forgetting Omar Colley's mistake
- Squad Qassem Lajami falls out with a teammate over standards