The Smouha Sentinel
Boardroom5 Jun 2034
Smouha are in Europe
Qualification is done, and next season the floodlights come on for something bigger. A stage for the players, oxygen for the accounts and a passport for everybody else.
Squad5 Jun 2034
Mauro Burruchaga: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Smouha have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad5 Jun 2034
Emmanuel Nweke is named among the best
There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Smouha will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.
Market5 Jun 2034
Anthony Oyono wants more than Smouha are offering
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Squad5 Jun 2034
A move Omar Tarek would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Omar Tarek is living that version at Smouha, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad5 Jun 2034
Tempers go at Smouha
Samadou Attidjikou 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.
Boardroom5 Jun 2034
Smouha beat the market to Ramadan Mostafa from Ittihad
Ittihad will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Ramadan Mostafa has pre-agreed a move to Smouha, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Market5 Jun 2034
Eyes on Karim Hamdi again
The phone has started ringing about Karim Hamdi again, and this time the name on the line is Military Production. Smouha are listening politely and promising nothing.
Boardroom5 Jun 2034
$2.0M on the table at Smouha
The board have answered with money instead of encouragement, which is the only answer a manager ever wants. Spending it well is now entirely his problem.
In brief
- Market Smouha sign Omar Tarek, one for the future
- Market Smouha sign Bassem Mohsen, one for the future
- Boardroom $325.1K a year onto the Smouha books