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101 Edition

The USM Khenchela Herald

3 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom3 Jul 2028

USM Khenchela spell it out for Bilal Ghoulam

The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Bilal Ghoulam has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.

Match3 Jul 2028

Every point is an argument now for USM Khenchela

Position 14 and 26 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Boardroom3 Jul 2028

The USM Khenchela board call everybody in

Nothing has been announced and everybody understands what it means. A board that summons the whole football department on a Tuesday morning is a board that has stopped believing the problem will fix itself.

Market3 Jul 2028

Patrick Bahanack 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 USM Khenchela can pretend not to have heard.

Squad3 Jul 2028

A move Oussama Fatmi 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. Oussama Fatmi is living that version at USM Khenchela, and it tends to show in the first month.

Market3 Jul 2028

USM Khenchela turn down ASO Chlef for Antoine-Dominique Querci

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad3 Jul 2028

Réda Boumechra 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 USM Khenchela this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets3 Jul 2028

Door shut on Seif Benrabah

USM Khenchela asked and CR Belouizdad said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad3 Jul 2028

USM Khenchela lose Sofiane Benrahma

33 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

In brief

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The USM Khenchela Herald

6 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad6 Sep 2027

The knee: Ismail Djabou out for 16 days

16 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. USM Khenchela lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Boardroom6 Sep 2027

Window shuts: 12 in, 11 out at USM Khenchela

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 12 arrived, 11 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Transfer targets6 Sep 2027

Kabangu Alex Teixeira turns down USM Khenchela

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Le Havre AC keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad6 Sep 2027

Tempers go at USM Khenchela

Abdou Sissoko 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.

Boardroom6 Sep 2027

Graduation day at USM Khenchela

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.

Transfer targets6 Sep 2027

Olympique Lyonnais tell USM Khenchela: Matthias Da Silva 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.

Market6 Sep 2027

USM Khenchela promote Mehdi Ghoulam from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Mehdi 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.

Market6 Sep 2027

Hicham Belmadi steps up from the USM Khenchela academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Hicham Belmadi 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

One of our own: Houssem Atal joins the USM Khenchela first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Houssem Atal is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief