The Dibba Gazette
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Saymon runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Dibba
David Díaz 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Carlinhos 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Saleh Gomaa
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market14 Sep 2026
Baniyas join the queue for Mayed Al-Teneiji
Add another name to the list: Baniyas have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Mayed Al-Teneiji. The answer from Dibba has not changed — yet.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Mohanad Ali never got going
3.24 on the card. Some afternoons a footballer looks like a man who has only just been introduced to the game, and this was one of them.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Too much change too quickly at Dibba
8 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
Mame Balla Gning has seen enough of Sharjah
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Dibba, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Midana Cassamá takes the honours
Marked 7.42 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Dibba had the best player on the pitch.
In brief
- Match Dibba and Al Shaab take a point apiece
- Player ratings Esquerdinha changes it off the bench
- Market The market said no: Rashed Omar stays put