Kamel Hamidi

Right Back - ES Setif
22 Nov 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Kamel Hamidi

4 Edition

The ES Setif Sentinel

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Mohamed Boukerma puts it in writing

“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 The request is on a desk at ES Setif, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Canaria gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Canaria has just signed for ES Setif, and for once the answer mattered.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Hany Mukhtar

ES Setif asked and Nashville SC said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Transfer targets

Omar Abdelaziz is a medical away from ES Setif

The deal with Zamalek 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.

Squad

A falling-out at ES Setif

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

Transfer targets

ES Setif baulk at the price for Abdelmoumen Sifour

USM Alger wanted more than $58.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

In brief

Back issues
1 Edition

The ES Setif Sentinel

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Riad Benayad stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Riad Benayad and ES Setif agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Transfer targets

ES Setif rebuffed over Aymen Boutoutaou

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. FCSB have kept their man, and ES Setif go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

Daniel Gnahoua 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 ES Setif this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Dramane Kamagaté is in the works

ES Setif have made the call to USM Alger. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Transfer targets

ES Setif ask about Ahmed Jafeli

A loan enquiry to Zamalek: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Transfer targets

ES Setif ask about Bahmed Deuff

A loan enquiry to FC Nantes: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Squad

ES Setif are still strangers to each other

6 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

Market

Still no ink between ES Setif and Mudasiru Salifu

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at ES Setif, another week without a signature from Mudasiru Salifu.

Market

Nobody at ES Setif has picked up the phone to Chemseddine Lakehal

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.

In brief