The USM Khenchela Herald
Market10 Aug 2026
USM Khenchela say no — this time
The offer from JS Kabylie for Abdelhamid Dris 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at USM Khenchela
Réda Boumechra 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Mehdi Benayada joins the USM Khenchela first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Mehdi Benayada 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
Yacine Slimani steps up from the USM Khenchela academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Yacine Slimani has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
USM Khenchela promote Ismail Feghouli from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ismail Feghouli has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Squad10 Aug 2026
USM Khenchela are still strangers to each other
8 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
A loan move for Fahad Bader is in the works
USM Khenchela have made the call to Dibba. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
USM Khenchela ask about Salah-Dine El Mezouari
A loan enquiry to FC Lorient: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
USM Khenchela ask about Belal Ateya
A loan enquiry to Al Ahly: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
In brief
- Squad No place for Ayoub Kerssani in the new shape
- The dugout Serge Badjo knocks on the manager's door
- Squad An aura around Imadeddine Boubekeur