The MC Alger Courier
Squad3 Aug 2026
Mohamed Zoungrana stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Mohamed Zoungrana and MC Alger agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A falling-out at MC Alger
Ayoub Abdellaoui and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Mokhtar Ferrahi arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Mokhtar Ferrahi has, at MC Alger, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Market3 Aug 2026
USM Khenchela join the queue for Mehdi Boucherit
Add another name to the list: USM Khenchela have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Mehdi Boucherit. The answer from MC Alger has not changed — yet.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at MC Alger training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mohamed Zoungrana 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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
MC Alger rebuffed over Ewen Jaouen
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Stade de Reims have kept their man, and MC Alger go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market3 Aug 2026
MC Alger and Ayoub Abdellaoui are talking past each other
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Market3 Aug 2026
Nobody at MC Alger has picked up the phone to Mohamed Zoungrana
49 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
MC Alger try to borrow Alexis Mirbach
FC Nantes 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.
In brief
- Transfer targets A loan move for Yael Trepy is in the works
- The dugout Zinedine Ferhat knocks on the manager's door
- Market Oussama Benhaoua told to find a new club