The Olympique Akbou Gazette
The dugout6 Sep 2027
Mohamed Chelfaoui keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Olympique Akbou may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market6 Sep 2027
Walid Zamoum asks to leave Olympique Akbou
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
Window shuts: 14 in, 7 out at Olympique Akbou
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 14 arrived, 7 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Mohamed El Koubi is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Player ratings6 Sep 2027
Hicham Messiad was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 23. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Hamdi Labidi 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 Olympique Akbou this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Late improvement for Hamdi Labidi
At 25 the improving is meant to be over, and it is not: 3 points better than a year ago. It happens to the ones who take the boring parts seriously.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
Graduation day at Olympique Akbou
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad6 Sep 2027
A row about effort at Olympique Akbou
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Walid Bencherifa was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Sofiane Slimani joins the Olympique Akbou first team
- Market Olympique Akbou promote Nabil Brahimi from within
- Market One of our own: Mourad Mahrez joins the Olympique Akbou first team