Mostafa Aref

Attacking Midfielder (L) - USM Khenchela
4 Mar 2029
Sunday
Process
Overview Personal Contract News 4 Transfers Relations Events 45 Awards Matches History

Marked for Mostafa Aref

133 Edition

The USM Khenchela Herald

12 Feb 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match10 Feb 2029

11 matches without a win for USM Khenchela

The run now stands at 11, and the questions being asked around USM Khenchela are no longer polite ones.

Squad12 Feb 2029

A fracture rules Samir Aïboud out for 61 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason USM Khenchela will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad12 Feb 2029

Words exchanged at USM Khenchela

Salah Eddine Bouziani 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.

Match10 Feb 2029

Paradou take the points off USM Khenchela

Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad12 Feb 2029

Serge Badjo 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 targets12 Feb 2029

MC Oran tell USM Khenchela: Chaouki Belkheir 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.

Transfer targets12 Feb 2029

The window shuts on the Seif Benrabah deal

USM Khenchela ran out of time with JS Kabylie. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.

The dugout12 Feb 2029

Serge Badjo 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.

Market12 Feb 2029

Still no ink between USM Khenchela and Ammar Oukil

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at USM Khenchela, another week without a signature from Ammar Oukil.

In brief

Back issues
45 Edition

The ENPPI Herald

7 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market7 Jun 2027

ENPPI say no — this time

The offer from Zamalek for Kahraba was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Market7 Jun 2027

Hamed Abdallah puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at ENPPI, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout7 Jun 2027

Mohamed Samir: 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.” ENPPI have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Transfer targets7 Jun 2027

Kauã Moraes due for a ENPPI medical

Everything agreed with Cruzeiro, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Market7 Jun 2027

Only the photograph left for Mohamed Tarek

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Mohamed Tarek will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around ENPPI the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad7 Jun 2027

A falling-out at ENPPI

Rafik Kabou and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad7 Jun 2027

A row about effort at ENPPI

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Kahraba was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets7 Jun 2027

ENPPI ask about Thomas Mohammed

A loan enquiry to BA All Stars: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Squad7 Jun 2027

Mostafa Aref slips down the pecking order

The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Mostafa Aref is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.

In brief

44 Edition

The ENPPI Herald

31 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom31 May 2027

Continental nights are coming to ENPPI

Qualification is secured, and next season the big floodlit nights are continental ones. For the players it is a stage; for the accounts it is a lifeline; for the supporters it is passports.

Market31 May 2027

Ziad Kamal is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at ENPPI is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad31 May 2027

The season belongs to Kahraba

An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and ENPPI have had the benefit of it.

Market31 May 2027

Youssef Labib puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at ENPPI, and it is not being withdrawn.

Boardroom31 May 2027

ENPPI to lose Ziad Kamal for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Ziad Kamal has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

Squad31 May 2027

Rafik Kabou in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at ENPPI this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad31 May 2027

Body Samir 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.

Squad31 May 2027

Mohamed Bendary signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mohamed Bendary commits to ENPPI for another 4 years.

The dugout31 May 2027

Ahmed El Agouz 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 Ahmed El Agouz trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

43 Edition

The ENPPI Herald

24 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market24 May 2027

Ahmed Shadad hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what ENPPI can pretend not to have heard.

The dugout24 May 2027

Ziad Kamal frozen out at ENPPI

This is not rotation. Ziad Kamal has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at ENPPI is pretending otherwise.

Squad24 May 2027

Words at ENPPI training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kahraba 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.

Squad24 May 2027

A falling-out at ENPPI

Ahmed Sabeha and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Loan watch24 May 2027

9 goals on loan for Ahmed Nader Hawash

30 appearances at Arab Contractors and the goals keep coming. ENPPI are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.

The dugout24 May 2027

Ahmed El Agouz 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 ENPPI, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief