Marked for Alexandr Ageev
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.68, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Jarek Elías and Al-Njoom agree another 4 years.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Yan 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Al-Njoom training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexandr Ageev 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Vladyslav Hevlych, and the manager let it.
Match22 Aug 2026
It needed Prince Ibara to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Al-Ta'ee, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Market24 Aug 2026
Experience through the door at Al-Njoom
Jane Moreno arrives at 33 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.
Market24 Aug 2026
Nobody sells a season ticket on a signing like this. Every manager who has been through a bad October wants one anyway, and Al-Njoom have gone and got theirs early.
Market24 Aug 2026
Nobody sells a season ticket on a signing like this. Every manager who has been through a bad October wants one anyway, and Al-Njoom have gone and got theirs early.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Graduation day at Al-Njoom
2 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Mohammed Attiyah 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Faisal Al-Dosari is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market17 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ahmed Al-Dawsari is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Match15 Aug 2026
Al-Riyadh left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alexandr Ageev, and the manager let it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
This league is too small for Yan
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Al-Njoom will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Market17 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Al-Njoom, another week without a signature from Vladyslav Hevlych.
Squad17 Aug 2026
9 new faces, and Al-Njoom 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.
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Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
Valery Fedosyuk gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Valery Fedosyuk has just signed for Al-Njoom, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Alexandr Ageev and Al-Njoom agree another 2 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Yan 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-Njoom this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Al-Njoom training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mohammed Al-Buladi 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Mohammed Asiri has his answer from Al-Njoom; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Market10 Aug 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.