Karim Laloufi

Right Midfielder - JS Kabylie
18 Sep 2026
Friday
Process

Marked for Karim Laloufi

6 Edition

The JS Kabylie Chronicle

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Boardroom

Deadline passes with 13 signed and 1 gone

That is the business done at JS Kabylie until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

Market

Karim Laloufi asks to leave JS Kabylie

“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.

Squad

Youcef Izem is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Transfer targets

Zamalek tell JS Kabylie: Khama Erasmus is not for sale

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.

Squad

A falling-out at JS Kabylie

Mostapha Rezkallah Bott 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 JS Kabylie training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jaredi Teixeira 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.

Boardroom

No investment in the facilities at JS Kabylie

Nothing about this will be in a press release. A plan went upstairs, came back rejected, and the version of the club that would have existed in three years' time just quietly stopped being possible.

Squad

JS Kabylie have started building around Arthur Bada

He used to be one of the options. He is now one of the men the options are picked around, and the change happened quietly enough that only the dressing room noticed on the day.

Market

Window shut, Oualid Malki still here

JS Kabylie spent the window trying to move Oualid Malki on and nobody came. He trains with a squad that has already told him he is not part of it, and both sides now wait for the next one.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The JS Kabylie Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Boardroom

JS Kabylie go back to the board over Mehdi Boucherit

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $100.0K — a club that wants Mehdi Boucherit enough to be asked twice.

Squad

Words exchanged at JS Kabylie

Yanis Hamache 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 targets

Too dear: JS Kabylie walk away from Massinissa Benchelouche

$240.0K was the most the club would pay and ES Ben Aknoun 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.

Market

Eyes on Gaya Ait Hamou again

The phone has started ringing about Gaya Ait Hamou again, and this time the name on the line is MB Rouissat. JS Kabylie are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad

This league is too small for Yanis Hamache

He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. JS Kabylie will not keep him by pretending otherwise.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Mathys De Carvalho is in the works

JS Kabylie have made the call to Olympique Lyonnais. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

In brief