The USM Alger Chronicle
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Door shut on Ibrahim Bayesh
USM Alger asked and Al Dhafra said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Farid Boulaya signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Farid Boulaya and USM Alger agree another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at USM Alger training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Raouf Benguit 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at USM Alger
Ghiles Guenaoui 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Eyes on Abdelmoumen Sifour again
The phone has started ringing about Abdelmoumen Sifour again, and this time the name on the line is MB Rouissat. USM Alger are listening politely and promising nothing.
Market3 Aug 2026
The clock runs on Zakaria Draoui's contract
24 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
Squad3 Aug 2026
8 new faces, and USM Alger 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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
USM Alger ask about Kauã Elias
A loan enquiry to Shakhtar: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan move for Daniel Meyer is in the works
USM Alger have made the call to Tours. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
In brief
- Market Still no ink between USM Alger and Saâdi Radouani
- Market Abdelmoumen Sifour told to find a new club