The Al-Shabab Courier
Boardroom19 Jun 2034
Pressure builds in the Al-Shabab boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Market19 Jun 2034
Hajer come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Al-Shabab did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market19 Jun 2034
Ismail Al Bloushi 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 The request is on a desk at Al-Shabab, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market19 Jun 2034
Only the photograph left for Eitan Peretz
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Eitan Peretz will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Al-Shabab the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad19 Jun 2034
Josh Brownhill 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.
Boardroom19 Jun 2034
Abderrahmane Sarr will join Al-Shabab for nothing
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Abderrahmane Sarr has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Al-Shabab have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
In brief
- Squad Tempers go at Al-Shabab
- Market A long bet from Al-Shabab on Nir Solomon
- Squad Mohammed Al-Saedi stays put
- Squad Rayan Al-Dossary has become a man the manager trusts