The Al Ahly Sentinel
Market17 Aug 2026
Terms done: Mohamed Ali Ben Romdhane is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Sparta Prague waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Al Ahly is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Match15 Aug 2026
Soufiane Benjdida leads the rout of El Dakhleya
3‑0, and Soufiane Benjdida took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Al Ahly tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Market17 Aug 2026
Eyad Tamer says no to Military Production
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Eyad Tamer had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Hussein El Shahat, 34, rolls back the years — 8.11
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.11 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Market17 Aug 2026
Al Ahly say no — this time
The offer from Latina for Achraf Dari 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Al Ahly
Mohamed Hany and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Youssef Belammari was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.33. 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Mohamed Hany reaches 200 appearances
200 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
One of those days for Zizo
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.11, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
In brief
- Squad Words at Al Ahly training over how hard people work
- The dugout The manager’s verdict
- Squad Soufiane Benjdida finally opens his account