23 Aug 2026
Sunday
Process
3 Edition

The Wadi Degla Gazette

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Terms done: Shady Maher is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and El Dakhleya waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Wadi Degla is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Boardroom

Wadi Degla go back to the board over Samir Fekri

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $11.1K — a club that wants Samir Fekri enough to be asked twice.

Squad

Mees Kaandorp 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 Wadi Degla this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

Wadi Degla make their move for Samir Fekri

$11.0K on the table at Smouha. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Match

A bad afternoon for Wadi Degla against Zamalek

1‑3 to Zamalek, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Transfer targets

Al Shaab tell Wadi Degla: Amer Al Naqbi 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.

The dugout

Amr Hossam 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.

The dugout

Ahmed El Hadary: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

Transfer targets

Wadi Degla ask about Hugo

A loan enquiry to Al Wasl: 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

Back issues
2 Edition

The Wadi Degla Gazette

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

$730.0K settles it between the clubs for Shikabala Aboutrika

Masr El Makasa have accepted the money. What Wadi Degla do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.

Boardroom

Wadi Degla go back to the board over Shikabala Aboutrika

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $834.4K — a club that wants Shikabala Aboutrika enough to be asked twice.

Squad

Amr Hossam signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Amr Hossam commits to Wadi Degla for another 1 years.

Squad

Words exchanged at Wadi Degla

Mees Kaandorp 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 targets

Door shut on Bruno

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

Market

Wadi Degla promote El Sayed Salah from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. El Sayed Salah 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.

Market

One of our own: Ramadan El Nenny joins the Wadi Degla first team

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

Market

One of our own: Omar Hassan joins the Wadi Degla first team

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

Market

Walid Kahraba steps up from the Wadi Degla academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Walid Kahraba 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.

In brief

1 Edition

The Wadi Degla Gazette

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Franck Boli signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Franck Boli commits to Wadi Degla for another 2 years.

Squad

Mees Kaandorp wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Wadi Degla know it.

Squad

A falling-out at Wadi Degla

Mees Kaandorp and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets

Foolad tell Wadi Degla: Ali Kolahkaj 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.

Squad

A last season at home is what Danijel Miškić is after

It is sentimental, it is completely genuine, and it is the beginning of a departure nobody has announced. The club can be gracious about it or it can pretend not to have heard.

Market

24 months and counting on Franck Boli

Still no offer on the table, and Franck Boli’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.

In brief