The Aswan Post
The terraces16 Aug 2027
Anger at Aswan 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.
Market16 Aug 2027
Bismark Asante 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 The request is on a desk at Aswan, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets16 Aug 2027
$40.0K settles it between the clubs for Sobhy Soliman
Ittihad have accepted the money. What Aswan do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Words exchanged at Aswan
Hady Reyad 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.
Boardroom16 Aug 2027
Graduation day at Aswan
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Transfer targets16 Aug 2027
Aswan rebuffed over Samir Mohamed
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Al Ahly have kept their man, and Aswan go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Islam Gamal 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.
Market16 Aug 2027
One of our own: Mostafa El Mohamady joins the Aswan first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Mostafa El Mohamady is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market16 Aug 2027
El Sayed Warda steps up from the Aswan academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. El Sayed Warda 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.
In brief
- Market Aswan promote Salah Warda from within
- Squad A muscle injury sidelines Mahmoud Zaki for 14 days
- Boardroom Aswan let a promise lapse