Mohammad Daneshgar

Central Defender - Al Shabab
10 Feb 2027
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26 Edition

The Al Shabab Post

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match23 Jan 2027

Chastening afternoon for Al Shabab

A 0‑3 beating by Al Jazira was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

Player ratings25 Jan 2027

Hamad Yaqoob was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 26. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Market25 Jan 2027

Al Ain join the queue for Hamad Al Junaibi

Add another name to the list: Al Ain have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Hamad Al Junaibi. The answer from Al Shabab has not changed — yet.

Transfer targets25 Jan 2027

Faisal Suqrat due for a Al Shabab medical

Everything agreed with Al Wasl, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Market25 Jan 2027

Mohamed Al Naqbi moves on

Emirates Club pay $1.1M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Squad25 Jan 2027

Tempers go at Al Shabab

Allan Nyom 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.

Match23 Jan 2027

Al Shabab cannot find the net

3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.

Transfer targets25 Jan 2027

Al Shabab rebuffed over Abdelrahman Saleh

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Al Wasl have kept their man, and Al Shabab go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

The dugout25 Jan 2027

No hiding place for Mohammad Daneshgar

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mohammad Daneshgar, and the manager let it.

In brief

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The Al Shabab Post

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings14 Dec 2026

Hamad Yaqoob runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 43. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad14 Dec 2026

A fracture rules Mahmoud Hassan out for 42 days

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

Match12 Dec 2026

The wait goes on for Al Shabab

5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad14 Dec 2026

A falling-out at Al Shabab

Allan Nyom and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad14 Dec 2026

Saood Al-Noufeli arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Saood Al-Noufeli has, at Al Shabab, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Player ratings14 Dec 2026

Ninety minutes of Omar Al Junaibi at his very best

Marked 8.19. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Al Shabab.

The dugout14 Dec 2026

The manager makes an example of Mohammad Daneshgar

“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.

Squad14 Dec 2026

Words at Al Shabab training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Hamad Yaqoob 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.

Match12 Dec 2026

Al Shabab and Al Nasr take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

In brief

16 Edition

The Al Shabab Post

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad16 Nov 2026

Mahmoud Hassan breaks a bone — 74 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 74 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad16 Nov 2026

Words exchanged at Al Shabab

Abdullah Hassan and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad16 Nov 2026

Erik 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.

Match14 Nov 2026

A bad afternoon for Al Shabab against Al Wahda

0‑2 to Al Wahda, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout16 Nov 2026

No hiding place for Mohammad Daneshgar

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mohammad Daneshgar, and the manager let it.

Player ratings16 Nov 2026

Hamad Yaqoob was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 16. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

The dugout16 Nov 2026

Nasser Ismail: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

Squad16 Nov 2026

International break empties Al Shabab

4 call-ups is a compliment to the squad and a headache for the man running it. He will get them back in a fortnight, tired, in various states of repair.

Market16 Nov 2026

Rashid Abdulrahman is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Al Shabab has been clear about where Rashid Abdulrahman stands, which is more than many ever get.

In brief

  • The dugout Salem Hussain has become a man the manager trusts
  • The dugout Somebody else is better right now than Omar Saeed
  • Market The Betão story refuses to die
1 Edition

The Al Shabab Post

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad3 Aug 2026

Mohammad Daneshgar arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Mohammad Daneshgar has, at Al Shabab, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

Door shut on Mohamed Kanno

Al Shabab asked and Al-Hilal said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market3 Aug 2026

Al Shabab turn down Pakhtakor for Fahad Al Suwaidi

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

Al Shabab make their move for Ali Saleh

$1.5M on the table at Al Wasl. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Market3 Aug 2026

Al-Wehda watching Ismail Yaqoob

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Al Shabab have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Al Shabab

Hamad Yaqoob 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.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Words at Al Shabab training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Omar Al Junaibi 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.

Squad3 Aug 2026

The formation has left Mohammad Daneshgar behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Al Shabab will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

Al Shabab ask about Igor Serrote

A loan enquiry to Al Jazira: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

In brief