Nir Levy

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1 Jan 2036
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Nir Levy

465 Edition

The Al-Hilal Chronicle

25 Jun 2035
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

The mood at Al-Hilal has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Market

Mohammad Reza Keshavarzi 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 Al-Hilal can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Tempers go at Al-Hilal

Sergej Milinković-Savić was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Real improvement from Nir Levy at Al-Hilal

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Nir Levy is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

Words at Al-Hilal training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rúben Neves 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.

Squad

A late step up for Mateus Manso

At 31 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.

In brief

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451 Edition

The Al-Hilal Chronicle

19 Mar 2035
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Sergej Milinković-Savić damages knee ligaments — 101 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 101 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match

Every point is an argument now for Al-Hilal

Position 14 and 3 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Market

Mohammad Reza Keshavarzi 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 The request is on a desk at Al-Hilal, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Tempers go at Al-Hilal

Sergej Milinković-Savić was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Home is on Samuel Quiñonez's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Al-Hilal are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Squad

Théo Hernández 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.

In brief