Marked for Seif Benrabah
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad21 Dec 2026
There were 10 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Age has not caught Ryad Boudebouz yet — 7.99
At 36 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.99 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Match19 Dec 2026
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation JS Kabylie did not have in the autumn.
Match19 Dec 2026
Another one collected away from home
3 on the bounce on the road for JS Kabylie. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.
Match19 Dec 2026
A 1‑0 win over CR Belouizdad, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Reda Benchaa 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
A row about effort at JS Kabylie
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jaredi Teixeira was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Loan watch21 Dec 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at JS Kabylie, and 0 appearances in 17 say he has earned the hearing.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
16 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
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Steady
Match21 Nov 2026
5‑0, and Ryad Boudebouz took the headlines on an afternoon when everything JS Kabylie tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
A brace, and Aimen Mahious takes the afternoon — 8.64
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Aimen Mahious provided it, and the 8.64 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.43 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Mohamed Réda Hamidi 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 ratings23 Nov 2026
8.17. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Ninety minutes of Akim Zedadka at his very best
Marked 8.15. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at JS Kabylie.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Reda Benchaa 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.
Loan watch23 Nov 2026
“I did not go to USM Khenchela to sit and watch. I want to come back to JS Kabylie and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 13 matches say the rest.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 5‑0, Faouzi Mrezigue could afford to be generous.
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Upbeat
Match24 Oct 2026
Chastening afternoon for JS Kabylie
A 0‑4 beating by MC Alger was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Aly Abeid and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom26 Oct 2026
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Jaredi Teixeira 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.
Loan watch26 Oct 2026
“I did not go to USM Khenchela to sit and watch. I want to come back to JS Kabylie and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑4, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Squad26 Oct 2026
JS Kabylie are still strangers to each other
6 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 13. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Triumph
Match26 Sep 2026
4‑0, and Ryad Boudebouz took the headlines on an afternoon when everything JS Kabylie tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.25, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Match26 Sep 2026
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now JS Kabylie have 3 straight wins of it.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Mohamed Réda Hamidi 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 ratings28 Sep 2026
A performance of 8.02 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Loan watch28 Sep 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at JS Kabylie, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad28 Sep 2026
JS Kabylie are still strangers to each other
6 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 4‑0, Faouzi Mrezigue could afford to be generous.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“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.
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Steady
Market24 Aug 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what USM Khenchela can pretend not to have heard.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Réda Boumechra 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Ahmed El Sheikh 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
USM Khenchela asked and MC Alger said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
USM Alger have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
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Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and USM Khenchela waiting with a shirt. Nobody at JS Kabylie is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market17 Aug 2026
The offer from USM Khenchela for Lahlou Akhrib was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
No thanks: Oumar Diakité rejects the move
JS Kabylie had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Stade de Reims, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The offer went to USM Khenchela this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
JS Kabylie offered $480.0K; Paradou said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. FC Villefranche have kept their man, and JS Kabylie go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
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Steady
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Everything agreed with JS Kabylie, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad17 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at USM Khenchela this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Ammar Oukil 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
USM Khenchela asked and Paradou said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
MC Alger have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. USM Khenchela will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A new face in his position, and Zakaria Mansouri suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. USM Khenchela have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
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Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” MB Rouissat had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $500.0K — a club that wants Abdallah Bendouma enough to be asked twice.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Everything agreed with Stade de Reims, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
JS Kabylie have gone to Paradou 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Aimen Mahious commits to JS Kabylie for another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Mohamed Réda Hamidi 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ismail Brahimi is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Omar Bensebaini 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Said Ounas 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.
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Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ryad Boudebouz commits to JS Kabylie for another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Aly Abeid 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 targets3 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Levski have kept their man, and JS Kabylie go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market3 Aug 2026
The name of Seif Benrabah has come up in conversations JS Kabylie were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Market3 Aug 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Market3 Aug 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Billal Messaoudi’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Jaredi Teixeira 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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to Stade de Reims: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan move for Tylel Tati is in the works
JS Kabylie have made the call to FC Nantes. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.