Al-Ta'ee U20

20 Aug 2026
Thursday
Process
3 Edition

The Al-Ta'ee Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings

Abdulrahman Al-Harthi runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 34. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Luis Haquín 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-Ta'ee this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Al-Ta'ee find a way past Al-Jeel

Al-Jeel made Al-Ta'ee work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Market

Al-Nahda are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Al-Ta'ee will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Hassan Al-Amri

A mark of 7.96, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

Market

Al-Ta'ee and Mauricio Chanampa are talking past each other

“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.

Squad

5 new faces, and Al-Ta'ee 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.

Boardroom

No investment in the facilities at Al-Ta'ee

Nothing about this will be in a press release. A plan went upstairs, came back rejected, and the version of the club that would have existed in three years' time just quietly stopped being possible.

Squad

Abdulrahman Al-Harthi is off the mark for Al-Ta'ee

The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.

In brief

Back issues
2 Edition

The Al-Ta'ee Chronicle

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Luis Haquín 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-Ta'ee this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Eyes on Amer Khalil again

The phone has started ringing about Amer Khalil again, and this time the name on the line is Al-Nahda. Al-Ta'ee are listening politely and promising nothing.

Market

Al-Ta'ee and Ibrahim Al-Nakhli are talking past each other

“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.

Market

A long bet from Al-Ta'ee on Rashid Al-Nemer

He is 14, and nobody at Al-Ta'ee signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

Market

A long bet from Al-Ta'ee on Bandar Al-Nemer

He is 14, and nobody at Al-Ta'ee signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

Squad

Somebody is after Abdulrahman Dagriri’s shirt

A new face in his position, and Abdulrahman Dagriri suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Al-Ta'ee have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.

In brief

1 Edition

The Al-Ta'ee Chronicle

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Luis Haquín signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Luis Haquín commits to Al-Ta'ee for another 3 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Al-Ta'ee

Luis Haquín 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.

Market

Eyes on Ammar Al-Ammar again

The phone has started ringing about Ammar Al-Ammar again, and this time the name on the line is Al-Mojzel. Al-Ta'ee are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad

This league is too small for Rubén Hernández

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-Ta'ee will not keep him by pretending otherwise.

Market

Still no ink between Al-Ta'ee and Hassan Al-Amri

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Al-Ta'ee, another week without a signature from Hassan Al-Amri.

Market

The clock runs on Jonata Machado's contract

49 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.

In brief