The Smouha Sentinel
Market16 Aug 2027
Smouha say no — this time
The offer from Masr El Makasa for Ahmed Ehab was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market16 Aug 2027
Only the photograph left for Ahmed Gaber
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ahmed Gaber will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Smouha the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Amr El Sisi 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 Smouha this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom16 Aug 2027
Graduation day at Smouha
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.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Words at Smouha training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Isaac Sackey 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.
Transfer targets16 Aug 2027
Smouha rebuffed over Amoory
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Ittihad have kept their man, and Smouha go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market16 Aug 2027
Mostafa Soliman steps up from the Smouha academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Mostafa Soliman 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.
Market16 Aug 2027
Smouha promote Walid Warda from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Walid Warda has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Boardroom16 Aug 2027
Smouha are making the ground bigger
Work is signed off on a capacity of 32056. It is the sort of decision a club is judged on twenty years later, by people who were not there when it was taken.
In brief
- The dugout No hiding place for Hesham Hafez
- The dugout Richardson Denzell knocks on the manager’s door
- The dugout When it matters, Sherif Reda plays