The JS Kabylie Chronicle
The dugout18 Jun 2029
Gaya Merbah keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” JS Kabylie may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad18 Jun 2029
Tempers go at JS Kabylie
Alexis Guendouz 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.
Squad18 Jun 2029
Aly Abeid 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.
Squad18 Jun 2029
JS Kabylie count the cost of losing Amayes Sabri
15 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
The dugout18 Jun 2029
Achraf Bencharki has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at JS Kabylie 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.
The dugout18 Jun 2029
No hiding place for Rayan Amari
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Rayan Amari, and the manager let it.
In brief
- The dugout Mário Junior knocks on the manager’s door
- Market Gaya Merbah’s agent stirs the pot again
- Boardroom The JS Kabylie board choose calm
- Squad Karim Guedioura is fit again