The ES Ben Aknoun Gazette
Market10 Aug 2026
MC El Bayadh come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and ES Ben Aknoun did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market10 Aug 2026
Nwanna Okechukwu attracts admirers
The name of Nwanna Okechukwu has come up in conversations ES Ben Aknoun were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at ES Ben Aknoun
Akram Djahnit 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Houssem Benrahma joins the ES Ben Aknoun first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Houssem Benrahma is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Abderrahmane Mrezigue joins the ES Ben Aknoun first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Abderrahmane Mrezigue is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad10 Aug 2026
9 new faces, and ES Ben Aknoun are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
In brief
- Squad A season on the outside for Akram Djahnit
- Squad Diaa Eddine Mechid is not doing himself any favours