Marked for Mohammed Kerroum
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Triumph
Squad1 Nov 2027
46 days out for Adel Bouzida after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Paradou will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Player ratings1 Nov 2027
Successful dribbles: 35. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings1 Nov 2027
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.89, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Match30 Oct 2027
Nobody wants to play Paradou right now
4 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
The dugout1 Nov 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad1 Nov 2027
Words exchanged at Paradou
Adel Bouzida 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.
Squad1 Nov 2027
At 25 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
Squad1 Nov 2027
Mounder Temine 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.
Match30 Oct 2027
A 2‑0 win over ES Setif, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Back issues
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Steady
Squad12 Jul 2027
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Paradou will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market12 Jul 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market12 Jul 2027
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Mohamed Islam Abdelkader will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Paradou the goodbyes have quietly begun.
The dugout12 Jul 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad12 Jul 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mohamed Lamine Tahar commits to Paradou for another 4 years.
Transfer targets12 Jul 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Olympique Akbou have kept their man, and Paradou go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Abdeldjalil Tahri 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 targets12 Jul 2027
Paradou have made the call to ES Ben Aknoun. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Market12 Jul 2027
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Moncef Bisker has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Paradou.
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Steady
The dugout24 May 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market24 May 2027
“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 May 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Paradou is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad24 May 2027
Words exchanged at Paradou
Abdeldjalil Tahri 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.
Squad24 May 2027
Younes Badani 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.
The dugout24 May 2027
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Mustapha Soukkou is on it.
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Steady
Match28 Nov 2026
11 unbeaten for Paradou
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 11 matches without defeat is a foundation Paradou did not have in the autumn.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Marked 8.17 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Market30 Nov 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 dugout30 Nov 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad30 Nov 2026
He is 21, he is averaging 7.05, and older professionals have started passing to him in the difficult minutes. That last part is the real scouting report.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Paradou
Abdeldjalil Tahri 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 terraces30 Nov 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Mustapha Soukkou has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match28 Nov 2026
MB Rouissat made Paradou work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
In brief
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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The dugout
The manager makes an example of Lalaina Rafanomezantsoa
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Squad
Words at Paradou training over how hard people work
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Uneasy
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 42. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match21 Nov 2026
10 unbeaten for Paradou
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 10 matches without defeat is a foundation Paradou did not have in the autumn.
Market23 Nov 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Paradou they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match21 Nov 2026
The wait goes on for Paradou
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Paradou
Abdeldjalil Tahri and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match21 Nov 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 1‑1, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Paradou
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Amayas Boudedja was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“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.
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Upbeat
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.90 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market26 Oct 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Paradou they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match24 Oct 2026
Whatever happens, Paradou do not lose
6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
The terraces26 Oct 2026
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match24 Oct 2026
A 2‑0 win over ES Mostaganem, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Adel Bouzida in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Paradou this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Karim Bensebaini, on a 2‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Paradou training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Younes Badani 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
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Two goals and a mark of 9.02 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Ben Ahmed Kohili is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Market28 Sep 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Paradou is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Match26 Sep 2026
Olympique Akbou made Paradou work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Paradou
Abdeldjalil Tahri and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The terraces28 Sep 2026
At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 2‑1, already talking about the next one.
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
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.
Market31 Aug 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Paradou is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market31 Aug 2026
ASO Chlef come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Paradou did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Rafik Zaimeche is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Mamelodi Sundowns have kept their man, and Paradou go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Adel Bouzida in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Paradou this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to Kaizer Chiefs: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Paradou training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Amayas Boudedja 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.
Looking ahead31 Aug 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against USM Alger in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
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Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and ES Ben Aknoun waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Paradou is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Everything agreed with Wadi Degla, 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
Words exchanged at Paradou
Lalaina Rafanomezantsoa 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 targets17 Aug 2026
Paradou asked and Mamelodi Sundowns said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market17 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: ASO Chlef have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Houssem Tarzout. The answer from Paradou has not changed — yet.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Younes Badani 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
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
Lalaina Rafanomezantsoa 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 targets3 Aug 2026
Paradou asked and Kaizer Chiefs said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
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 Walid Ghaly 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.