The CS Constantine Courier
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Age has not caught Brahim Dib yet — 7.84
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.84 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Market7 Sep 2026
Abderrahmane Benadla hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what CS Constantine can pretend not to have heard.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Brahim Dib pulls a muscle — 15 days out
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 15 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
Market7 Sep 2026
The MC El Bayadh deal is off
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Mohamed Mouaataz Khenniche reports back to CS Constantine with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Real improvement from Khaled Mounir Allaoui at CS Constantine
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Khaled Mounir Allaoui is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
4 academy players handed senior numbers at CS Constantine
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at CS Constantine training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Messala Merbah 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Ricardo Mathias gets it from the manager
“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.
Market7 Sep 2026
Ahmed Bennacer steps up from the CS Constantine academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ahmed Bennacer has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Abdelhak Soudani joins the CS Constantine first team
- Player ratings Ninety minutes of Messala Merbah at his very best
- Match Messala Merbah answers MC El Bayadh immediately