Al-Wehda U20

16 Aug 2026
Sunday
Process
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The Al-Wehda Post

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Waleed Bakshween

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

Market

Al-Wehda turn down Al-Qadisiyah for Ali Adnan

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

Market

Not going: Muhammad Makbashi stays at Al-Wehda

“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Al-Nahda had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Raghid Najjar

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

Boardroom

Al-Wehda go back to the board over Mohammed Hurbush

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $189.1K — a club that wants Mohammed Hurbush enough to be asked twice.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Houssine Rahimi rejects the move

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

Transfer targets

Al-Wehda make their move for Saad Al-Mosa

$350.0K on the table at Al-Ittihad. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Transfer targets

An offer of $180.0K for Mohammed Hurbush

Al-Wehda have gone to Al-Shabab with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Squad

Tempers go at Al-Wehda

Abdullah Al-Owaishir 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.

In brief

Back issues
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The Al-Wehda Post

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Peter Olayinka signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Peter Olayinka and Al-Wehda agree another 3 years.

Squad

Abdullah Al-Owaishir 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-Wehda this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Eyes on Mohammed Al-Qunayan again

The phone has started ringing about Mohammed Al-Qunayan again, and this time the name on the line is Najran. Al-Wehda are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad

Words at Al-Wehda training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Augustine Oladapo 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.

Market

Still no ink between Al-Wehda and Ali Adnan

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Al-Wehda, another week without a signature from Ali Adnan.

Transfer targets

Al-Wehda ask about Houssine Rahimi

A loan enquiry to Al Ain: 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