MB Rouissat U18

Algerian League 1 U18
23 Aug 2026
Sunday
Process
3 Edition

The MB Rouissat Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Terms done: Abdenacer Bensaci is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and ES Mostaganem waiting with a shirt. Nobody at MB Rouissat is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Transfer targets

Seif Benrabah due for a MB Rouissat medical

Everything agreed with JS Kabylie, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Transfer targets

Quentin Paris turns down MB Rouissat

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

Squad

Tempers go at MB Rouissat

Rezki Hamroune 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.

The dugout

Mohamed Ridha Djahdou gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad

A row about effort at MB Rouissat

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Abdenacer Bensaci was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

In brief

Back issues
2 Edition

The MB Rouissat Courier

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

Alhassane Bangoura is a medical away from MB Rouissat

The deal with MC Alger is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Seif Benrabah rejects the move

MB Rouissat had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at JS Kabylie, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad

A falling-out at MB Rouissat

Rezki Hamroune and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Market

One of our own: Faouzi Zeffane joins the MB Rouissat first team

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

Market

One of our own: Hillal Belaili joins the MB Rouissat first team

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

Market

MB Rouissat promote Karim Zeffane from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Karim 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.

Market

MB Rouissat promote Ismail Zeffane from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ismail 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.

Transfer targets

MB Rouissat try to borrow Seif Benrabah

JS Kabylie have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Squad

6 new faces, and MB Rouissat are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

In brief

1 Edition

The MB Rouissat Courier

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Rezki Hamroune stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Rezki Hamroune and MB Rouissat agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Words exchanged at MB Rouissat

Rezki Hamroune 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.

Squad

A row about effort at MB Rouissat

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Benali Benamar was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

A muscle injury and 16 days out for Necer Benzid

The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. MB Rouissat will quote 16 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.

Market

Still no ink between MB Rouissat and Kheiredine Merzougui

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at MB Rouissat, another week without a signature from Kheiredine Merzougui.

Market

36 months and counting on Rezki Hamroune

Still no offer on the table, and Rezki Hamroune’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.

In brief