The MC Oran Post
Squad16 Oct 2028
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.
Squad16 Oct 2028
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.
Squad16 Oct 2028
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.
Market16 Oct 2028
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 dugout16 Oct 2028
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 dugout16 Oct 2028
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 ahead16 Oct 2028
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 dugout16 Oct 2028
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 dugout16 Oct 2028
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
- Market The shop window has Juba Aguieb in it
- Squad The penny has dropped for Farid Chaâl
- Looking ahead Looking ahead: the trip to JS Saoura