The JS Kabylie Chronicle
Match2 Sep 2028
8 matches without a win for JS Kabylie
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around JS Kabylie are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings4 Sep 2028
Nobody could get near Célestin Écua
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Boardroom4 Sep 2028
Hillal Mahrez signs on for the long haul
JS Kabylie moved before anybody else could: a new deal for Hillal Mahrez, agreed quietly and announced loudly. Boards extend managers for many reasons; the good one is the one this looks like.
Squad4 Sep 2028
Ryad Boudebouz 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 JS Kabylie this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom4 Sep 2028
Graduation day at JS Kabylie
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.
Squad4 Sep 2028
Omar Khailoti signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Omar Khailoti commits to JS Kabylie for another 4 years.
Squad4 Sep 2028
Words at JS Kabylie training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Aimen Lahmeri 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.
Squad4 Sep 2028
Federico Flores has improved at 36, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Market4 Sep 2028
JS Kabylie promote Hicham Zeffane from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Hicham Zeffane 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 Hillal Benrahma steps up from the JS Kabylie academy
- Market JS Kabylie promote Mehdi Bellahcene from within
- Market JS Kabylie promote Sofiane Mandi from within