Munif Doshi

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28 Aug 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Munif Doshi

50 Edition

The Al-Faisaly Courier

12 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Fernando Pacheco

154 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Al-Faisaly lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

The dugout

Jaber Issa says Al-Faisaly 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.

Market

Munif Doshi asks to leave Al-Faisaly

“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

No deal for Rayan Hamed at that price

Al-Faisaly offered $1.0M; Al-Ahli said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

Squad

Words exchanged at Al-Faisaly

Andrei Girotto 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.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Mahamadou Sangaré

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

Market

Mohammed Al-Aqeel attracts admirers

The name of Mohammed Al-Aqeel has come up in conversations Al-Faisaly were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad

Words at Al-Faisaly training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ahmed Al-Mhemaid 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

Mohammed Al-Shanqiti stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Mohammed Al-Shanqiti and Al-Faisaly agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

In brief

Back issues
48 Edition

The Al-Faisaly Courier

28 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Andrei Girotto

128 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Al-Faisaly lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market

Theo Bongonda wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Arman Durmiši rejects the move

Al-Faisaly had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Juventus, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad

A falling-out at Al-Faisaly

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

Market

Only the photograph left for Ahmed Al-Badah

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ahmed Al-Badah will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Al-Faisaly the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Meshal Mahmoud Haddad is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

Late improvement for Ibrahima N'Diaye

At 28 the improving is meant to be over, and it is not: 3 points better than a year ago. It happens to the ones who take the boring parts seriously.

Transfer targets

Al-Faisaly rebuffed over Benjamín Sagües Barreiro

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

Transfer targets

Al-Faisaly ask about Tobias Asenzo

A loan enquiry to Leyton Orient: 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

17 Edition

The Al-Faisaly Courier

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Theo Bongonda leads the rout of Al-Fateh

3‑0, and Theo Bongonda took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Al-Faisaly tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Squad

3 goals for Theo Bongonda

The match ball belongs to Theo Bongonda, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.

Squad

A falling-out at Al-Faisaly

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

Player ratings

Theo Bongonda was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.35. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

The dugout

Al-Faisaly pick somebody else ahead of Luvannor

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Salem Al-Ghamdi kept it short after the 3‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.

Squad

Words at Al-Faisaly training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mohammed Al-Nakhli 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Abdullah Al-Mogren

“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.

Market

Jaime Seoane linked with a move away

The name of Jaime Seoane keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Al-Faisaly say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief