The USM Alger Chronicle
Market31 Aug 2026
Ilyes Chetti asks to leave USM Alger
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Paradou tell USM Alger: Taha Yassine Tahar 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.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Abdelhamid Ait Boudlal due for a USM Alger medical
Everything agreed with Stade Rennais, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Too dear: USM Alger walk away from Adel Bouzida
$83.0K was the most the club would pay and Paradou were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Market31 Aug 2026
ES Setif watching Safi Eddine Atmania
The interest is real enough to have reached print. USM Alger have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Achref Abada signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Achref Abada and USM Alger agree another 3 years.
Market31 Aug 2026
The shop window has Houssemeddine Ghacha in it
USM Alger have let the market know Houssemeddine Ghacha can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
Looking ahead31 Aug 2026
Raouf Benguit faces his old club
Paradou next, and one man in the USM Alger dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Dramane Kamagaté wants to know why he earns less
Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and USM Alger have no good answer.
In brief
- Looking ahead Home comforts ahead for USM Alger
- Squad Welcome back, Mehdi Medjani