The Al-Hilal Chronicle
Squad12 Oct 2026
The step up is real for Mohamed Meïté
At 19 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Théo Hernández 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-Hilal this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Al-Hilal are still strangers to each other
9 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
Market12 Oct 2026
The Ollie Watkins question follows Al-Hilal around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Ollie Watkins’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Mohamed Meïté, 19, is the weekend’s best young player
Measured against every other kid in the division and first among them. The senior award is where Al-Hilal would like this to lead.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
Sultan Mandash faces his old club
Al-Taawoun next, and one man in the Al-Hilal dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes Nawaf Al-Habashi a promise
- The dugout Sergej Milinković-Savić keeps his manager's vote
- Looking ahead Home comforts ahead for Al-Hilal
- Loan watch Abdullah Al-Zaid has made Al-Orobah’s shirt his own