The JS Kabylie Chronicle
Squad2 Sep 2030
Aly Abeid damages knee ligaments — 78 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 78 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market2 Sep 2030
Oualid Malki has said yes to CR Belouizdad
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. JS Kabylie have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Boardroom2 Sep 2030
Window shuts: 12 in, 12 out at JS Kabylie
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 12 arrived, 12 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Squad2 Sep 2030
Achraf Bencharki signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Achraf Bencharki commits to JS Kabylie for another 2 years.
Boardroom2 Sep 2030
JS Kabylie tie Hicham Belmadi down
A new deal for the man in the dugout, and the clearest thing a board can say without calling a press conference about it. Stability is cheap to promise and expensive to deliver.
Squad2 Sep 2030
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.
Boardroom2 Sep 2030
5 academy players handed senior numbers at JS Kabylie
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad2 Sep 2030
A late step up for Aimen Lahmeri
At 34 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.
Market2 Sep 2030
One of our own: Sofiane Halliche joins the JS Kabylie first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Sofiane Halliche is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Aissa Djabou joins the JS Kabylie first team
- Market Said Guedioura steps up from the JS Kabylie academy
- The dugout When it matters, Aly Abeid plays