Rayan Amari

Defensive Midfielder - JS Kabylie
25 Apr 2030
Thursday
Process

Marked for Rayan Amari

151 Edition

The JS Kabylie Chronicle

18 Jun 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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 dugout

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 dugout

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

Back issues
109 Edition

The JS Kabylie Chronicle

28 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Oualid Malki turns Ittihad down

“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.

Squad

The step up is real for Rayan Amari

At 22 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Squad

Tempers go at JS Kabylie

Aly Abeid 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.

Squad

A late step up for Aimen Mahious

At 30 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.

Transfer targets

Ajax Cape Town tell JS Kabylie: Percy Furman 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

Oualid Malki signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Oualid Malki commits to JS Kabylie for another 4 years.

The dugout

Aly Abeid gets picked when it counts

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 Aly Abeid is on it.

The dugout

Gaya Merbah 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

Laïd Chahine Bellaouel knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at JS Kabylie, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief