Al-Ta'ee

Saudi First Division
18 Aug 2026
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The Al-Ta'ee Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match15 Aug 2026

A 2-goal lead gone for Al-Ta'ee

It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. Al-Jeel kept coming because nothing stopped them, and Al-Ta'ee will be asked about the last half hour all week.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Mohammed Al-Saiari, 33, rolls back the years — 8.56

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.56 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Words exchanged at Al-Ta'ee

Luis Haquín 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 targets17 Aug 2026

Al-Fayha tell Al-Ta'ee: Abdulraouf Al-Duqayl is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Ahmed Al-Shamrani was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 17. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Match15 Aug 2026

Al-Ta'ee and Al-Jeel take a point apiece

It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

Squad17 Aug 2026

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.

The dugout17 Aug 2026

The manager’s verdict

“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Mohammed Al-Qahtani was not hiding it after 2‑2, and nobody in the Al-Ta'ee dressing room was either.

Boardroom17 Aug 2026

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.

In brief

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The Al-Ta'ee Chronicle

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market10 Aug 2026

Al-Ta'ee turn down Al-Taawoun for Jonata Machado

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Ahmed Al-Shamrani due for a Al-Ta'ee medical

Everything agreed with Al-Hazem, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Talal Haji will not be coming to Al-Ta'ee

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Al-Ittihad is saying, and nobody at Al-Ta'ee is enjoying the guessing.

Squad10 Aug 2026

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.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Al-Ta'ee rebuffed over Osama Al-Mermesh

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

Market10 Aug 2026

One of our own: Sami Al-Harbi joins the Al-Ta'ee first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Sami Al-Harbi is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market10 Aug 2026

One of our own: Hassan Al-Ghamdi joins the Al-Ta'ee first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Hassan Al-Ghamdi is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market10 Aug 2026

Al-Ta'ee promote Saad Al-Rashid from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Saad Al-Rashid has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Squad10 Aug 2026

A season on the outside for Arwin Javad

He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Al-Ta'ee has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.

In brief

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The Al-Ta'ee Chronicle

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market3 Aug 2026

MB Rouissat come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Al-Ta'ee did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Luis Haquín signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Luis Haquín and Al-Ta'ee agree another 4 years.

Squad3 Aug 2026

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.

Market3 Aug 2026

Al-Saudi Al-Watani watching Ammar Al-Ammar

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Al-Ta'ee have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Arwin Javad has outgrown this division

There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Al-Ta'ee know it, and so does everybody who watches him.

Market3 Aug 2026

Talks stall between Al-Ta'ee and Luis Haquín

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

In brief