The Sharjah Chronicle
Market6 Sep 2027
Majid Rashid asks to leave Sharjah
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Adel Al-Hosani: 11 seasons and counting
338 appearances across 11 seasons in one shirt. Careers like that are not built on purpose any more, and Sharjah know exactly what they have.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
Window shuts: 9 in, 24 out at Sharjah
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 9 arrived, 24 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Squad6 Sep 2027
A falling-out at Sharjah
Erik and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets6 Sep 2027
Sharjah rebuffed over Oumar Traoré
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Al Jazira have kept their man, and Sharjah go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
Graduation day at Sharjah
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.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Charles Pickel 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.
Market6 Sep 2027
Sharjah promote Omar Mabkhout from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Omar Mabkhout 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.
Market6 Sep 2027
One of our own: Hamad Juma joins the Sharjah first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Hamad Juma is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Sharjah promote Sultan Al Kamali from within
- Squad A step back for Malek Janeer at Sharjah
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Malek Janeer