The MC Alger Courier
Squad24 Aug 2026
Chemseddine Nessakh damages knee ligaments — 139 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 139 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market24 Aug 2026
Terms done: Mehdi Boucherit is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and MC Oran waiting with a shirt. Nobody at MC Alger is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Too dear: MC Alger walk away from Ferland Mendy
$2.4M was the most the club would pay and Real Madrid 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
MC Alger rebuffed over Eric Bile
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Ludogorets have kept their man, and MC Alger go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
An offer of $640.0K for Abdelhamid Dris
MC Alger have gone to USM Khenchela 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A falling-out at MC Alger
Mohamed Zoungrana 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
Merwane Khelif pulls a muscle — 14 days out
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 14 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
MC Alger ask about Joaquín Freitas
A loan enquiry to Flamengo: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at MC Alger training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yakoub Gassi 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.
In brief
- The dugout A door opens for Mohamed Benkhemassa
- The dugout Rami Bouaouiche keeps his manager's vote