The MC El Bayadh Herald
Market17 Jan 2028
The unthinkable, invoiced: Israel Oladeji sold
ES Ben Aknoun arrived with $300.0K and left with the best player in the building. The board will call it business; the queue at the ticket office will use other words.
Player ratings17 Jan 2028
Khalid Dahamni scores twice — 8.11
Two goals and a mark of 8.11 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad17 Jan 2028
A move Mohamed Belaribi would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Mohamed Belaribi is living that version at MC El Bayadh, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad17 Jan 2028
Abdelkadir Salhi keeps MC El Bayadh in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
The terraces17 Jan 2028
MC El Bayadh sell a favourite for $300.0K
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Israel Oladeji was one of the reasons people came, and $300.0K does not replace that by itself.
Market17 Jan 2028
Mohamed Belaribi is a MC El Bayadh player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Squad17 Jan 2028
Tempers go at MC El Bayadh
Abdelkadir Salhi 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.
Match15 Jan 2028
Khalid Dahamni the difference as MC El Bayadh beat ASO Chlef
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Khalid Dahamni. 2‑1 against ASO Chlef, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad17 Jan 2028
No hiding place for Samuel Gyan
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Samuel Gyan, and the manager let it.
In brief
- Player ratings A costly moment from Abdessamad Bounaama
- Player ratings Timothy Zechariah runs at them all day
- Market MC El Bayadh shop where it costs nothing