Brahim Dib

Attacking Midfielder (L) - CS Constantine
1 Sep 2026
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Brahim Dib

5 Edition

The CS Constantine Courier

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

115 days out for Hamid Djaouchi after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. CS Constantine will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Transfer targets

Fee done, terms next for Rayane Abdelmadjid Mahrouz

CS Constantine and USM Alger have settled on $1.4M. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Richardson Denzell rejects the move

CS Constantine had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at El Masry, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Transfer targets

No deal for Oualaa Moundhir Bouzekri at that price

CS Constantine offered $100.0K; MC Alger said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Joseph Mangondo

CS Constantine asked and FC Metz said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Words exchanged at CS Constantine

Djihad Bizimana 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.

In brief

Back issues
4 Edition

The CS Constantine Courier

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

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.

Market

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 targets

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.

Market

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 targets

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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 targets

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.

Squad

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