Marked for Sultan Sabeel
From our football correspondent
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Market31 Aug 2026
“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 The request is on a desk at Al Fujairah, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Everything agreed with Al Ahli, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Market31 Aug 2026
Emirates Club pay $210.0K, 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.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Al Ain have kept their man, and Al Fujairah go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market31 Aug 2026
The phone has started ringing about Novak Vuković again, and this time the name on the line is Baniyas. Al Fujairah are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Ervin Taha and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
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Steady
Market24 Aug 2026
Sultan Sabeel hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Al Fujairah can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Al Fujairah asked and Al Jazira said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Mohamed Abdelrahman and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
A loan move for Ibrahim Ismail is in the works
Al Fujairah have made the call to Al Ahli. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Amer Rashid and Al Fujairah agree another 3 years.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Novak Vuković 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
A season-long audition: Al Dhafra still own him, but the shirt and the minutes are Al Fujairah's to give. A loan is a bet both clubs believe they are winning.
Market24 Aug 2026
A season-long look at somebody else’s player: Hassan Ismail arrives from Al Shaab with something to prove and a return ticket in the drawer. Good loans make everybody richer; this one starts Saturday.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Competition arrives for Ervin Taha
A new face in his position and a shirt he thought he owned suddenly up for discussion. Al Fujairah have promised nothing, which is what clubs promise at this stage.
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Steady
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Dibba have kept their man, and Al Fujairah go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market17 Aug 2026
The phone has started ringing about Rashed Suroor again, and this time the name on the line is Emirates Club. Al Fujairah are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Sultan Sabeel and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to Al Dhafra: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Al Shaab have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to Al Shaab: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Squad17 Aug 2026
5 new faces, and Al Fujairah are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Al Fujairah training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Novak Vuković 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Al Fujairah are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
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Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
11 seasons and 127 appearances, all of them here. Careers like this are not designed; they happen to a certain kind of man at a certain kind of club, and this town has one.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Petar Panić and Al Fujairah agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Petar Panić 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
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Al Fujairah can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Al Fujairah have made the call to Al Ain. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Al Fujairah have made the call to Al Nasr. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to Baniyas: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan move for Majed Khalfan is in the works
Al Fujairah have made the call to Al Ahli. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Market3 Aug 2026
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Sultan Sabeel has his answer from Al Fujairah; what he does with it is the next window’s story.