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The Al-Qadisiyah Herald

6 Aug 2035
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom6 Aug 2035

Al-Qadisiyah spell it out for Fahad Al-Harbi

The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Fahad Al-Harbi has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.

Market6 Aug 2035

Julián Fabregas 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 The request is on a desk at Al-Qadisiyah, and it is not being withdrawn.

Boardroom6 Aug 2035

Crisis meeting at Al-Qadisiyah

The official line will be that it was routine. It was not routine, the timing says so, and every person in that room knows what the next bad result costs.

Squad6 Aug 2035

9 seasons of Otávio

550 appearances across 9 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Al-Qadisiyah know what they have.

Squad6 Aug 2035

Abdulmalik Al-Jaber stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Abdulmalik Al-Jaber and Al-Qadisiyah agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad6 Aug 2035

Iker Almena 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 Al-Qadisiyah this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad6 Aug 2035

Itay Melikson is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Boardroom6 Aug 2035

$3.3M of the owner's money at Al-Qadisiyah

The shortfall was covered from upstairs again. Supporters are entitled to be relieved and entitled to ask what happens the month it is not, and both feelings usually arrive together.

Boardroom6 Aug 2035

The Al-Qadisiyah debt reaches $122.1M

Football clubs borrow; that is not the story. Borrowing more than the facility allows is, because from here it is the owner's money or somebody else's decision, and neither of those belongs to the board.

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The Al-Qadisiyah Herald

4 Jun 2035
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad4 Jun 2035

Ali Al-Qahtani breaks a bone — 18 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 18 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Boardroom4 Jun 2035

Al-Qadisiyah put Fahad Al-Harbi on notice

The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.

Squad4 Jun 2035

Diego Mercapide keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Al-Qadisiyah may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market4 Jun 2035

Cameron Puertas raises the bar for Al-Qadisiyah

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Al-Qadisiyah heard it as anything else.

Squad4 Jun 2035

Cameron Puertas stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Cameron Puertas and Al-Qadisiyah agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad4 Jun 2035

Tempers go at Al-Qadisiyah

Iker Almena 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.

Market4 Jun 2035

Kofi Asmah is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Al-Qadisiyah is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Boardroom4 Jun 2035

The owner puts $3.4M into Al-Qadisiyah

This is money that keeps the lights on rather than money that buys a centre-half, and the difference is the whole story. A club funded by its owner rather than by its football has exactly one conversation left ahead of it.

Boardroom4 Jun 2035

Wages eat 150% of everything Al-Qadisiyah earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

In brief

454 Edition

The Al-Qadisiyah Herald

9 Apr 2035
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad9 Apr 2035

A fracture rules Majed Al-Awad out for 28 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Al-Qadisiyah will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad9 Apr 2035

Iker Almena stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Iker Almena and Al-Qadisiyah agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad9 Apr 2035

Musab Al-Juwayr 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 Al-Qadisiyah this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad9 Apr 2035

Souffian El Karouani 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.

Boardroom9 Apr 2035

131% of the income goes out in wages at Al-Qadisiyah

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

Market9 Apr 2035

Talks stall between Al-Qadisiyah and Nir Cohen

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

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446 Edition

The Al-Qadisiyah Herald

12 Feb 2035
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad12 Feb 2035

A knee injury of the worst kind for Salman Al-Mansour

38 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Al-Qadisiyah lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad12 Feb 2035

A fracture rules Majed Al-Awad out for 84 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Al-Qadisiyah will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad12 Feb 2035

Sanzhar Kemelbek keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Al-Qadisiyah may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad12 Feb 2035

Musab Al-Juwayr 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 Al-Qadisiyah this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom12 Feb 2035

Wages eat 168% of everything Al-Qadisiyah earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

Market12 Feb 2035

Al-Qadisiyah put Gabriel Ramírez up for sale

The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Gabriel Ramírez may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.

In brief