From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market24 Aug 2026
The bid was some way short and Police Union did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad24 Aug 2026
7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Ebenezer Assifuah and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Mokhtar Ferrahi falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Masr El Makasa have kept their man, and Police Union go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Ahmed Abdallah's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to Ittihad: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
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Crisis
Match15 Aug 2026
Chastening afternoon for Police Union
A 0‑3 beating by Arab Contractors was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Ebenezer Assifuah 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.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
Police Union spend $150.0K on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $150.0K for Ahmed Menshawi, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Police Union training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mokhtar Ferrahi 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Police Union asked and Orlando Pirates said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
Ahmed Daouda gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Nobody left the Police Union dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
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 Police Union, another week without a signature from Saleh Nasr.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑3 Trezeguet Tarek left the room before anybody could ask which.
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Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
Hesham Adel gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Hesham Adel has just signed for Police Union, and for once the answer mattered.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
$150.0K on the table at 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Police Union this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Police Union asked and Petrojet said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Mostafa Soliman 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Mahmoud Tarek has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ali Sobhi 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Karim El Nenny 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
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Hesham Adel commits to Police Union for another 3 years.
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Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
Sani Abdullahi gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Sani Abdullahi has just signed for Police Union, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ahmed Abdallah commits to Police Union for another 2 years.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
The formation has left Mahmoud Ezzat behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Police Union will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
Market3 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Police Union are still strangers to each other
19 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan move for Esho is in the works
Police Union have made the call to Zamalek. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan move for Hazem Gamal is in the works
Police Union have made the call to Al Ahly. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Haras El Hodoud have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.