Ali Jaber

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89 Edition

The CR Belouizdad Herald

10 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Oussama Benattia damages knee ligaments — 25 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 25 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.

Market

Bilal Boukerchaoui is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at CR Belouizdad is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Bunde Ingya gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Bunde Ingya has just signed for CR Belouizdad, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad

Raouf Benguit 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.

Squad

Bunde Ingya signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Bunde Ingya commits to CR Belouizdad for another 3 years.

Loan watch

Lofti Boussouar keeps scoring at ENPPI

13 appearances away from home and 5 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.

In brief

Back issues
85 Edition

The CR Belouizdad Herald

13 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Oussama Benattia

58 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. CR Belouizdad lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

CR Belouizdad up to position 3

47 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Market

Only the photograph left for Bilal Boukerchaoui

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Bilal Boukerchaoui will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around CR Belouizdad the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Match

Still nobody has beaten CR Belouizdad

The unbeaten run reaches 8. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Player ratings

Khanyisa Mayo runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Ali Jaber gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Ali Jaber has just signed for CR Belouizdad, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad

Raouf Benguit 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.

Squad

Tempers go at CR Belouizdad

Khanyisa Mayo was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Player ratings

Abdennour Iheb Belhocini in the eights

A performance of 8.36 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

In brief