Marked for Amayes Sabri
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad23 Aug 2027
74 days out for Aimen Lahmeri after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. JS Kabylie will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
The dugout23 Aug 2027
Amayes Sabri: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” JS Kabylie have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: another club keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 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.
Market23 Aug 2027
The chase for Mokhtar Ferrahi ended with $210.0K changing hands and MC Alger out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Aly Abeid and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Aimen Mahious has improved at 29, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Nimes have kept their man, and JS Kabylie go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
Obolon have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
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Uneasy
Squad26 Apr 2027
A fracture rules Abdel Medioub out for 34 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason JS Kabylie will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
The dugout26 Apr 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” JS Kabylie may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Ryad Boudebouz 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.
Squad26 Apr 2027
A row about effort at JS Kabylie
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ange Ahoussou was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout26 Apr 2027
Abdel Medioub asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
The dugout26 Apr 2027
“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.
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Steady
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 42. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Ange Ahoussou 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.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Chamois Niortais have kept their man, and JS Kabylie go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match6 Feb 2027
A 2‑1 win over MC El Bayadh, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Aimen Mahious was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.57. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad8 Feb 2027
50 goals for the club, every one of them filed away in the memory of a supporter somewhere.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Ange Ahoussou will call it something else in private.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A place in the month's best eleven for Amayes Sabri
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Amayes Sabri has come out of that comparison in the side, and JS Kabylie have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 2‑1, already talking about the next one.
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Uneasy
Match5 Dec 2026
No end in sight to JS Kabylie's wait for a win
6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at JS Kabylie has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Ryad Boudebouz 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.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Alexis Guendouz commits to JS Kabylie for another 3 years.
Match5 Dec 2026
Late, late show earns JS Kabylie a point
Minute 91, against MC Oran, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.
Squad7 Dec 2026
25 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
7.99, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. JS Kabylie had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Amayes Sabri
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Amayes Sabri has come out of that comparison in the side, and JS Kabylie have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
Match5 Dec 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.