Ali Al-Eid

Right Midfielder - Al-Nahda
9 Feb 2027
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Ali Al-Eid

24 Edition

The Al-Nahda Courier

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

35 days out for Kissimbo after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Al-Nahda will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Match

Every point is an argument now for Al-Nahda

Position 14 and 14 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

The dugout

Yassin Hamzah keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Al-Nahda may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market

Ali Al-Eid asks to leave Al-Nahda

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Transfer targets

David Kaiki due for a Al-Nahda medical

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

Squad

A falling-out at Al-Nahda

Mohammed Al-Qarni and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Market

Saeed Al-Rashid steps up from the Al-Nahda academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Saeed Al-Rashid has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Looking ahead

A six-pointer for Al-Nahda

Al-Saudi Al-Watani next, and both sides can do the sum. Win and the table looks different; lose and it looks the way everybody has been fearing.

The dugout

Abdulrahman Hazazi gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

Back issues
13 Edition

The Al-Nahda Courier

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A fracture rules Kissimbo out for 116 days

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

Squad

The knee: Khaled Al-Magrabi out for 42 days

42 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Al-Nahda lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match

Nowhere to hide for Al-Nahda

0‑4 against Al-Ta'ee, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

The dugout

Abdulrahman Hazazi says Al-Nahda went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

Mohammed Al-Qarni 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-Nahda this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

The goals have deserted Al-Nahda

3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Al-Nahda can tell you which week it ends in.

Squad

Al-Nahda lose Mxolisi Mthiya

53 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Boardroom

Doors closed at Al-Nahda

The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.

The dugout

Ibrahim Al-Nemer answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑4, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

In brief

5 Edition

The Al-Nahda Courier

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Transfer targets

Al-Nahda agree $42.0K for Clement Zubah

The clubs have shaken hands with Al-Riyadh; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.

Market

Adel Hazazi asks to leave Al-Nahda

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market

Al-Nahda say no — this time

The offer from Al-Njoom for Ali Al-Eid was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Transfer targets

Karim Ashraf is a medical away from Al-Nahda

The deal with Al-Ra'ed is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Squad

A falling-out at Al-Nahda

Sultan Al-Anzi and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

Leonel Ntebeu Djoko’s goal not enough for Al-Nahda

Leonel Ntebeu Djoko scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑3 to Ohod, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

The dugout

No hiding place for Abdulaziz Al-Awardi

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

The dugout

Ibrahim Al-Nemer: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

The dugout

The form table has caught Abdulaziz Al-Awardi

Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.

In brief