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Upbeat
Squad12 Oct 2026
2 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.
Match7 Oct 2026
Cup progress for Paradou
A 1‑1 win over JS Saoura, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
A brace, and Saïmon Bouabré takes the afternoon — 8.68
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Saïmon Bouabré provided it, and the 8.68 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Ben Ahmed Kohili is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad12 Oct 2026
He is 20, he is averaging 7.05, and older professionals have started passing to him in the difficult minutes. That last part is the real scouting report.
Match10 Oct 2026
Whatever happens, Paradou do not lose
7 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad12 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Paradou this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match10 Oct 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Saïmon Bouabré. 2‑1 against USM Khenchela, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
The terraces12 Oct 2026
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
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Upbeat
Match3 Oct 2026
3‑0, and Saïmon Bouabré took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Paradou tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Market5 Oct 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Paradou, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
No sign of nerves from Saïmon Bouabré at 20 — 8.35
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Saïmon Bouabré did not need any: 8.35, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad5 Oct 2026
39 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Abdeldjalil Ould Ammar is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Luke Baartman 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Youssef Oggadi falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The terraces5 Oct 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Saïmon Bouabré has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.42, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
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Upbeat
Match26 Sep 2026
The 85th minute, half the ground already edging towards the exits, and Ben Ahmed Kohili decided nobody was going anywhere. Olympique Akbou had no time left to answer.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
No sign of nerves from Saïmon Bouabré at 20 — 8.42
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Saïmon Bouabré did not need any: 8.42, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Saïmon Bouabré falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Match26 Sep 2026
Olympique Akbou made Paradou work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Adel Bouzida 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 Paradou this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Steady
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.33 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Ouanisse Bouzahzah is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Paradou training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Saïmon Bouabré 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Adel Bouzida 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 terraces21 Sep 2026
At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“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.
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Steady
Squad14 Sep 2026
Benaissa Fettouche damages knee ligaments — 20 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 20 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Ben Ahmed Kohili is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad14 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Paradou this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Paradou training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Youssef Oggadi 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
A performance of 8.33 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match12 Sep 2026
2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
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Triumph
Squad7 Sep 2026
Benaissa Fettouche damages knee ligaments — 27 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 27 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
No sign of nerves from Saïmon Bouabré at 20 — 8.39
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Saïmon Bouabré did not need any: 8.39, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Market7 Sep 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market7 Sep 2026
ES Setif come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Paradou did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Abdeldjalil Ould Ammar is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Luke Baartman 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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Graduation day at Paradou
3 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Paradou training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Saïmon Bouabré 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.
The terraces7 Sep 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Saïmon Bouabré has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
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Steady
Squad31 Aug 2026
37 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Paradou lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market31 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market31 Aug 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Paradou can pretend not to have heard.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Mohamed Lamine Tahar is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad31 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Paradou this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market31 Aug 2026
USM Alger paid $530.0K and Paradou took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
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Steady
Squad24 Aug 2026
44 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Paradou lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market24 Aug 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Paradou, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market24 Aug 2026
The fee is $190.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. JS Saoura drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Luke Baartman 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Lance Rozeboom pulls a muscle — 18 days out
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 18 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
In brief
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The terraces
Paradou spend $190.0K on the signing the town wanted
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Squad
Youssef Oggadi falls out with a teammate over standards
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Market
Paradou shop where it costs nothing
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
ASO Chlef come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Paradou did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad17 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Paradou this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
Paradou spend $130.0K on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $130.0K for Issam Yazid, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Paradou training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Taha Yassine Tahar 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Paradou know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
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Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
Luke Baartman gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Luke Baartman has just signed for Paradou, and for once the answer mattered.
Market10 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Adel Bouzida 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 Paradou this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A muscle injury sidelines Imad Reguieg for 14 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Paradou will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Paradou training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Youssef Oggadi 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
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Steady
Market3 Aug 2026
Paradou say no — this time
The offer from Al-Nassr for Mohamed El Amine Ramdaoui 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Taha Yassine Tahar and Paradou agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Adel Bouzida 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Taha Yassine Tahar falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Market3 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Paradou have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Paradou, another week without a signature from Ben Ahmed Kohili.