The ES Mostaganem Chronicle
Squad6 Sep 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Rayan Dehilis
23 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. ES Mostaganem lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad6 Sep 2027
A move Ahmed Zaouache would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Ahmed Zaouache is living that version at ES Mostaganem, and it tends to show in the first month.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
Deadline passes with 10 signed and 2 gone
That is the business done at ES Mostaganem 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.
Market6 Sep 2027
So close: Mounir Aziria’s move dies late
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Olympique Akbou moved on, Mounir Aziria reports back to ES Mostaganem, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
4 academy players handed senior numbers at ES Mostaganem
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.
Transfer targets6 Sep 2027
Door shut on Toufik Moussaoui
ES Mostaganem asked and MC Alger said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Abdelhafid Benamara 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 ES Mostaganem this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market6 Sep 2027
ES Mostaganem promote Hillal Belmadi from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Hillal Belmadi 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.
Market6 Sep 2027
One of our own: Aissa Bensebaini joins the ES Mostaganem first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Aissa Bensebaini is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Omar Zeffane steps up from the ES Mostaganem academy
- Transfer targets Deadline beats ES Mostaganem to Kamel Soufi
- Squad Words at ES Mostaganem training over how hard people work