The CS Constantine Courier
Squad24 Aug 2026
Hamid Djaouchi breaks a bone — 122 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 122 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market24 Aug 2026
Brahim Dib asks to leave CS Constantine
“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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Sharjah tell CS Constantine: Firas Ben Larbi is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market24 Aug 2026
CS Constantine sell Mélo N'Diaye for $550.0K
Mélo N'Diaye has left for CR Belouizdad in a $550.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Too dear: CS Constantine walk away from Edlin Essang-Matouti
$99.0K was the most the club would pay and MC Oran were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A row about effort at CS Constantine
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Messala Merbah was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A falling-out at CS Constantine
Idir Mokeddem and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
A loan move for Richardson Denzell is in the works
CS Constantine have made the call to El Masry. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Alexis Mirbach has outgrown this division
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. CS Constantine know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
In brief
- Market Abdelmalek Necir placed on the list
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Alexis Mirbach