At 36 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.99 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
A 1‑0 win over CR Belouizdad, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jaredi Teixeira was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at JS Kabylie, and 0 appearances in 17 say he has earned the hearing.
16 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
5‑0, and Ryad Boudebouz took the headlines on an afternoon when everything JS Kabylie tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
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A brace, and Aimen Mahious takes the afternoon — 8.64
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Aimen Mahious provided it, and the 8.64 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Two goals and a mark of 8.43 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Mohamed Réda Hamidi 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.
8.17. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 5‑0, Faouzi Mrezigue could afford to be generous.
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” JS Kabylie have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Mohamed Réda Hamidi and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jaredi Teixeira was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Aimen Lahmeri is on it.
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at JS Kabylie. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
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ES Setif next, and one man in the JS Kabylie dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Reda Benchaa has written the date down.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at JS Kabylie, and both men came out saying it was fine.
He looks like a man who lives here now rather than one who is working here. It took most of a season, and at JS Kabylie the difference is visible from the back of the stand.
A brace, and Aimen Mahious takes the afternoon — 8.71
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Aimen Mahious provided it, and the 8.71 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
A 3‑1 win over USM Khenchela, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
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.
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 3‑1, Faouzi Mrezigue could afford to be generous.
Paradou next, and one man in the JS Kabylie dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
Every debut is a small story about the future: Amayes Sabri, 20 years old, off the academy pitches and into the first team. The parents in the stand will keep the programme.
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and USM Khenchela waiting with a shirt. Nobody at JS Kabylie is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
The offer from USM Khenchela for Lahlou Akhrib was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
JS Kabylie had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Stade de Reims, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
The offer went to USM Khenchela this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
JS Kabylie offered $480.0K; Paradou said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. FC Villefranche have kept their man, and JS Kabylie go back to a list with one name crossed off it.