Sultan Sabeel

Central Defender - Al Fujairah
4 Sep 2026
Friday
Process

Marked for Sultan Sabeel

5 Edition

The Al Fujairah Post

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Naser Salem puts it in writing

“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 The request is on a desk at Al Fujairah, and it is not being withdrawn.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 targets

Ibrahim Ismail due for a Al Fujairah medical

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.

Market

Rashed Suroor moves on

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 targets

Al Fujairah rebuffed over Abdoulkarim Traoré

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.

Market

Eyes on Novak Vuković again

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.

Squad

A falling-out at Al Fujairah

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

In brief

Back issues
4 Edition

The Al Fujairah Post

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

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 targets

Door shut on Igor Serrote

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.

Squad

A falling-out at Al Fujairah

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 targets

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.

Squad

Amer Rashid signs on for more

“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.

Squad

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.

Market

Al Fujairah bring in Zayed Al-Ameri on loan

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.

Market

Al Fujairah borrow Hassan Ismail

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.

Squad

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.

In brief

3 Edition

The Al Fujairah Post

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

Al Fujairah rebuffed over Rashed Mohamed

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.

Market

Eyes on Rashed Suroor again

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.

Squad

A falling-out at Al Fujairah

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 targets

Al Fujairah ask about Zayed Al-Ameri

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 targets

Al Fujairah try to borrow Hassan Ismail

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 targets

Al Fujairah ask about Saeed Ismail

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

No place for Khalfan Al Menhali in the new shape

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.

In brief

1 Edition

The Al Fujairah Post

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A career in one shirt: Saleh Al-Mesmari

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.

Squad

Petar Panić stays put

“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.

Squad

Tempers go at Al Fujairah

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.

Squad

Sander Benbachir wants to go home

“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 targets

A loan move for Mohammed Bu Sanda is in the works

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 targets

A loan move for Mohammed Abdulbasit is in the works

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 targets

Al Fujairah ask about Ahmed Fawzi

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 targets

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.

Market

No place for Sultan Sabeel in the plan

“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.

In brief