Hatem Grine

Attacking Midfielder (L) - CS Constantine
3 Nov 2027
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Marked for Hatem Grine

57 Edition

The CS Constantine Courier

30 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad30 Aug 2027

A fracture rules Tosin Omoyele out for 110 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason CS Constantine will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad30 Aug 2027

Mohamed Amran arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Mohamed Amran has, at CS Constantine, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Squad30 Aug 2027

Hatem Grine is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad30 Aug 2027

Tempers go at CS Constantine

Ahmed Hassan 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.

Transfer targets30 Aug 2027

CS Constantine try to borrow Joan Tincres

Tours have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

The dugout30 Aug 2027

No hiding place for Abdelmalek Necir

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Abdelmalek Necir, and the manager let it.

The dugout30 Aug 2027

Mostafa Berkane knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at CS Constantine, and both men came out saying it was fine.

The dugout30 Aug 2027

Dadi Mouaki has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at CS Constantine will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Market30 Aug 2027

CS Constantine and Mounder Ayoune are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

In brief

Back issues
52 Edition

The CS Constantine Courier

26 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad26 Jul 2027

A knee injury of the worst kind for Brahim Dib

42 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. CS Constantine lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Boardroom26 Jul 2027

CS Constantine go back to the board over Serge Badjo

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $111.2K — a club that wants Serge Badjo enough to be asked twice.

Squad26 Jul 2027

Words exchanged at CS Constantine

Ahmed Hassan 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.

Transfer targets26 Jul 2027

CS Constantine bid $100.0K for Serge Badjo

The offer went to USM Khenchela this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Market26 Jul 2027

Imad Eddine Benmoussa moves on

JS Kabylie pay $330.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Squad26 Jul 2027

Messala Merbah falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Transfer targets26 Jul 2027

Hellas Verona tell CS Constantine: Rafik Belghali 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.

The dugout26 Jul 2027

No hiding place for Tosin Omoyele

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Tosin Omoyele, and the manager let it.

Squad26 Jul 2027

Hatem Grine signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Hatem Grine commits to CS Constantine for another 4 years.

In brief

24 Edition

The CS Constantine Courier

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market11 Jan 2027

Ouadjih Khelfaoui agrees terms with Paradou

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around CS Constantine people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Market11 Jan 2027

MC Alger come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and CS Constantine did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market11 Jan 2027

Mohammed Haythem Benkaddour 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 targets11 Jan 2027

Omar Jobe is a medical away from CS Constantine

The deal with MC Oran 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.

The dugout11 Jan 2027

Mohammed Haythem Benkaddour says CS Constantine went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad11 Jan 2027

Tempers go at CS Constantine

Ahmed Hassan 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.

Transfer targets11 Jan 2027

CS Constantine rebuffed over Hatem El Fegoun

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

Squad11 Jan 2027

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.

Player ratings11 Jan 2027

Nobody could get near Islam Bakir

Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief