The ES Setif Sentinel
Squad5 Jun 2028
A knee injury of the worst kind for Merouane Zerrouki
35 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. ES Setif lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad5 Jun 2028
A fracture rules Ahmad Lamido out for 33 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason ES Setif will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market5 Jun 2028
Michael Halliday 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 ES Setif can pretend not to have heard.
Market5 Jun 2028
Eyes on Merouane Zerrouki again
The phone has started ringing about Merouane Zerrouki again, and this time the name on the line is CR Belouizdad. ES Setif are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad5 Jun 2028
Words at ES Setif training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sofiane Bendebka 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.
Squad5 Jun 2028
Tempers go at ES Setif
Abdeldjalil Ould Ammar was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
In brief
- Market The Youcef Douar question follows ES Setif around
- Market ES Setif put Adda Derder up for sale
- Boardroom The ES Setif production line keeps running