The Emirates Club Chronicle
Squad7 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Ali Saqr
137 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Emirates Club lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market7 Sep 2026
Ebraheim Khameis 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 Emirates Club can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Deadline passes with 23 signed and 1 gone
That is the business done at Emirates Club 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
Emirates Club get their man
The chase for Zayed Ahmed ended with $400.0K changing hands and Al Wahda out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
The window shuts on the Mohammed Abbas deal
Emirates Club ran out of time with Al Ain. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Emirates Club
Omar Ismail and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
No deal for Habib Yousuf at that price
Emirates Club offered $140.0K; Dibba said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
1 academy graduates step up at Emirates Club
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Emirates Club training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Omar Abdulrahman 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.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Khalid Abdulrahman joins the Emirates Club first team
- Squad Leandrinho is no longer first choice
- Boardroom Emirates Club say no to the training-ground money