Samir Aïboud

Central Midfielder - USM Khenchela
21 May 2027
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Marked for Samir Aïboud

40 Edition

The USM Khenchela Herald

3 May 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom3 May 2027

USM Khenchela put Amine Djabou on notice

The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.

Squad3 May 2027

Words exchanged at USM Khenchela

Mehdi Boucherit 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.

Squad3 May 2027

Moulay Abdelaziz 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.

Market3 May 2027

No place for Samir Aïboud in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Samir Aïboud has his answer from USM Khenchela; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

The dugout3 May 2027

Oussama Litim 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.

Squad3 May 2027

Home is on Christopher Samangwa's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; USM Khenchela are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Squad3 May 2027

Ahmida Zenasni is no longer first choice

The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Ahmida Zenasni has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.

The dugout3 May 2027

The manager's exit leaves Hicham El Majhed exposed

Every squad has men who were signed by a particular manager and men who were merely inherited. Hicham El Majhed is in the first group, and the man who wanted him here is no longer in the building.

The dugout3 May 2027

Samir Aïboud knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Samir Aïboud trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

Back issues
25 Edition

The USM Khenchela Herald

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match16 Jan 2027

18 matches without a win for USM Khenchela

The run now stands at 18, and the questions being asked around USM Khenchela are no longer polite ones.

Squad18 Jan 2027

The knee: Oussama Litim out for 84 days

84 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. USM Khenchela lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match18 Jan 2027

Every point is an argument now for USM Khenchela

Position 16 and 6 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Market18 Jan 2027

Abdelkader Morcely agrees terms with ES Mostaganem

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around USM Khenchela people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Squad18 Jan 2027

Yannis Tafer out for 81 days

The medical room confirms 81 days on the sidelines for Yannis Tafer, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Transfer targets18 Jan 2027

Door shut on Omar Jobe

USM Khenchela asked and MC Oran said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad18 Jan 2027

A falling-out at USM Khenchela

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

The dugout18 Jan 2027

The manager makes an example of Badreddine Souyad

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Transfer targets18 Jan 2027

A loan move for Ghilas Belgacem is in the works

USM Khenchela have made the call to Olympique Akbou. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

In brief

13 Edition

The USM Khenchela Herald

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match24 Oct 2026

No end in sight to USM Khenchela's wait for a win

7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at USM Khenchela has to find a result from somewhere.

Match24 Oct 2026

The goals have deserted USM Khenchela

4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at USM Khenchela can tell you which week it ends in.

Match24 Oct 2026

USM Khenchela come up short against Paradou

Paradou left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout26 Oct 2026

No hiding place for Serge Badjo

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Serge Badjo, and the manager let it.

The dugout26 Oct 2026

Amine Djabou: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

The dugout26 Oct 2026

USM Khenchela keep their word to Stéphane Lemaire

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

The dugout26 Oct 2026

Oussama Litim dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

Looking ahead26 Oct 2026

Mohamed Amine Ezzemani faces his old club

ES Mostaganem next, and one man in the USM Khenchela dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

Player ratings26 Oct 2026

Samir Aïboud was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 11. 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.

In brief