The JS Kabylie Chronicle
Squad6 Sep 2027
Billal Messaoudi breaks a bone — 85 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 85 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Transfer targets6 Sep 2027
The paperwork begins on Samuel Kalu
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. JS Kabylie have done the hard part with Botev Plovdiv, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
Deadline passes with 9 signed and 17 gone
That is the business done at JS Kabylie until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Transfer targets6 Sep 2027
JS Kabylie rebuffed over Ahmed Hassan
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. CS Constantine have kept their man, and JS Kabylie go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
4 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.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Tempers go at JS Kabylie
Alexis Guendouz 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.
Market6 Sep 2027
One of our own: Nabil Slimani joins the JS Kabylie first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Nabil Slimani is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market6 Sep 2027
Ali Tahrat steps up from the JS Kabylie academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ali Tahrat 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.
Market6 Sep 2027
JS Kabylie promote Hicham Ghoulam from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Hicham Ghoulam 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.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Islam Atal joins the JS Kabylie first team
- Boardroom The ground is getting bigger
- Squad Yanis Hamache slips down the pecking order