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206 Edition

The ES Mostaganem Chronicle

8 Jul 2030
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market8 Jul 2030

Terms done: Seif Benrabah is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Paradou waiting with a shirt. Nobody at ES Mostaganem is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Market8 Jul 2030

Eric Mainge asks to leave ES Mostaganem

“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.

Squad8 Jul 2030

ES Mostaganem count the cost of losing Louanes Zidi

15 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Squad8 Jul 2030

Seif Benrabah signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Seif Benrabah and ES Mostaganem agree another 3 years.

Transfer targets8 Jul 2030

ES Mostaganem baulk at the price for Mohamed Mahrez

Paradou wanted more than $30.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Squad8 Jul 2030

Naoufel Khacef falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Market8 Jul 2030

Naoufel Khacef already looking beyond ES Mostaganem

He signed expecting a bigger stage than the one he found. It has not taken long, and it has not taken the dressing room long to notice either.

The dugout8 Jul 2030

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Squad8 Jul 2030

Naoufel Khacef needs a bigger stage

He is doing things every Saturday that nobody around him can answer. It is flattering for a season and a problem after that, and ES Mostaganem know which stage they are at.

In brief

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202 Edition

The ES Mostaganem Chronicle

10 Jun 2030
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market10 Jun 2030

Seif Benrabah attracts admirers

The name of Seif Benrabah has come up in conversations ES Mostaganem were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Market10 Jun 2030

Eric Mainge asks to leave ES Mostaganem

“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.

Transfer targets10 Jun 2030

JS Kabylie tell ES Mostaganem: Naoufel Khacef is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Transfer targets10 Jun 2030

ES Mostaganem make their move for Benaouda Klileche

$160.0K on the table at MC Oran. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Squad10 Jun 2030

Words at ES Mostaganem training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Omar Kamel is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

The dugout10 Jun 2030

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Squad10 Jun 2030

Walid Hegazi signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Walid Hegazi commits to ES Mostaganem for another 3 years.

Transfer targets10 Jun 2030

ES Mostaganem ask about Bilal Boukerchaoui

A loan enquiry to CR Belouizdad: 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 Jun 2030

A loan move for Ramy Benrahma is in the works

ES Mostaganem have made the call to Olympique Akbou. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

In brief

201 Edition

The ES Mostaganem Chronicle

3 Jun 2030
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market3 Jun 2030

Seif Benrabah hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what ES Mostaganem can pretend not to have heard.

The dugout3 Jun 2030

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Squad3 Jun 2030

Words at ES Mostaganem training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ali Haroun is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Transfer targets3 Jun 2030

Door shut on Billal Brahimi

ES Mostaganem asked and Al Ahly said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market3 Jun 2030

Talks stall between ES Mostaganem and Boualem Sryer

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

Squad3 Jun 2030

Walid Hegazi stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Walid Hegazi and ES Mostaganem agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Transfer targets3 Jun 2030

ES Mostaganem ask about Robinio Vaz

A loan enquiry to Olympique Lyonnais: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Market3 Jun 2030

ES Mostaganem sign Hicham Feghouli, one for the future

Hicham Feghouli is 18, and ES Mostaganem have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

Squad3 Jun 2030

A falling-out at ES Mostaganem

Eric Mainge and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

In brief

197 Edition

The ES Mostaganem Chronicle

6 May 2030
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout6 May 2030

Bradley Zungu: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” ES Mostaganem have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

The dugout6 May 2030

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Market6 May 2030

Eric Mainge asks to leave ES Mostaganem

“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.

Squad6 May 2030

Ali Haroun signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ali Haroun commits to ES Mostaganem for another 2 years.

Squad6 May 2030

Tempers go at ES Mostaganem

Ali Haroun 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.

Squad6 May 2030

Ahmed Reda gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Ahmed Reda has just signed for ES Mostaganem, and for once the answer mattered.

Boardroom6 May 2030

Abdallah Boukhanfer will join ES Mostaganem for nothing

The paperwork is done long before the player is. Abdallah Boukhanfer has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means ES Mostaganem have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.

Squad6 May 2030

A row about effort at ES Mostaganem

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Seif Benrabah was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Market6 May 2030

Still no ink between ES Mostaganem and Hamza Boualem

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at ES Mostaganem, another week without a signature from Hamza Boualem.

In brief