Marked for Moncef Bisker
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market14 Sep 2026
Juba Aguieb hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what MC Oran can pretend not to have heard.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. MC Oran will try again when the window opens; MC Alger may not be selling by then.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A row about effort at MC Oran
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mohamed Benyettou was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
“I did not go to ES Setif to sit and watch. I want to come back to MC Oran and fight for my place.” 1 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Moncef Bisker 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
A 1‑1 draw with Olympique Akbou leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Ramy Djabou after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
Back issues
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Steady
Market31 Aug 2026
$360.0K. No player has ever cost MC Oran more, and expectation arrives with him.
Market31 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 MC Oran can pretend not to have heard.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Mokhtar Belkhiter 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.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
MC Oran spend $360.0K on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $360.0K for Moncef Bisker, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A row about effort at MC Oran
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ahmed Mohamed Kerroum was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad31 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
Market31 Aug 2026
$360.0K from MC Oran for Moncef Bisker. Money is money, but the dressing room has lost the man it looked to.
Market31 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 Paradou can pretend not to have heard.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
Paradou sell a favourite for $360.0K
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Moncef Bisker was one of the reasons people came, and $360.0K does not replace that by itself.
Market31 Aug 2026
The phone has started ringing about Taha Yassine Tahar again, and this time the name on the line is MC Alger. Paradou are listening politely and promising nothing.
Market31 Aug 2026
Paradou say no — this time
The offer from ES Setif for Mohammed Kerroum 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 targets31 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: LOSC Lille keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
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Steady
Market24 Aug 2026
$2.1M — a new record at MC Oran
No footballer has ever cost this club more, and the number will be read out every time he misplaces a pass for the next two years.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
$3.3M on the table at Sharjah. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
MC Oran and Paradou have settled on $360.0K. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.
Market24 Aug 2026
“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 targets24 Aug 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at El Masry is saying, and nobody at MC Oran is enjoying the guessing.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at MC Oran
Mokhtar Belkhiter 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.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
MC Oran spend $2.1M on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $2.1M for Mohamed Saliou Bangoura, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at MC Oran training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mohamed Benyettou 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.
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Steady
Market24 Aug 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Paradou, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market24 Aug 2026
Paradou say no — this time
The offer from JS Kabylie for Abdallah Bendouma 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 targets24 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Sochaux keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Toufik Moussaoui 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
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.
Market24 Aug 2026
The name of Mohammed Kerroum has come up in conversations Paradou were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to Sochaux: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
A loan move for Fathy Marwan is in the works
Paradou have made the call to Masr El Makasa. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Moncef Bisker 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.
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Steady
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
$340.0K on the table at Paradou. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
$570.0K was the most the club would pay and USM Alger 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A falling-out at MC Oran
Mokhtar Belkhiter and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Mohamed Benyettou 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The formation has left Oussama Chita behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. MC Oran will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
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Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Taha Yassine Tahar and Paradou agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Paradou
Toufik Moussaoui and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
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.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Paradou, another week without a signature from Lalaina Rafanomezantsoa.
Market3 Aug 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Mohamed Aït El Hadj’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan move for Julien Vetro is in the works
Paradou have made the call to Sochaux. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Masr El Makasa 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Moncef Bisker 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A year in and the city has not opened up, the language has not come, and lunch is eaten alone more often than anybody at Paradou would admit. It shows on Saturdays.