Amar Yasser

Attacking Midfielder (R) - MC Oran
22 Oct 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Amar Yasser

116 Edition

The MC Oran Post

16 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

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.

Squad

Abderrahim Hamra 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

Amar Yasser signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Amar Yasser commits to MC Oran for another 4 years.

Market

Oussama Kaddour is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at MC Oran has been clear about where Oussama Kaddour stands, which is more than many ever get.

The dugout

Toufik Moussaoui 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.

The dugout

Maxwell Baakoh has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at MC Oran will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Looking ahead

Anas Yusuf faces his old club

JS Saoura next, and one man in the MC Oran dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

The dugout

Abdelkader Menezla has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Abdelkader Menezla has written the date down.

The dugout

Bilal Benkhedim knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Bilal Benkhedim trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

Back issues
45 Edition

The Zamalek Chronicle

7 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Zamalek are in among the leaders

Position 3 and 73 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Market

Amar Yasser 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 Zamalek can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Zamalek say no — this time

The offer from Haras El Hodoud for Ahmed Khaled 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.

Market

Omar Abdelaziz is on his way

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

Squad

A falling-out at Zamalek

Abdallah Aboutrika and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Words at Zamalek training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Adam Kaied 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.

The dugout

When it matters, Lucas Bruera plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Squad

Baron Ochieng is no longer first choice

The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Baron Ochieng has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.

Squad

A promotion for Lucas Bruera

Not a new contract, not a new number: a new place in the manager’s thinking, which is the only promotion in football that actually matters. Lucas Bruera has moved up it.

In brief