Sofiane Halliche

Attacking Midfielder (L) - CR Belouizdad
13 Aug 2034
Sunday
Process

Marked for Sofiane Halliche

390 Edition

The CR Belouizdad Herald

16 Jan 2034
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Transfer targets

$1.7M settles it between the clubs for Adama Dramé

MC Alger have accepted the money. What CR Belouizdad do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.

Market

CR Belouizdad turn down Olympique Akbou for Souleymane Soumahoro

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market

Sofiane Halliche 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 CR Belouizdad can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets

No deal for Moussa N'Diaye at that price

CR Belouizdad offered $580.0K; 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.

Squad

Words exchanged at CR Belouizdad

Yanis Guermouche 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.

Squad

A row about effort at CR Belouizdad

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mamadou Tounkara was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets

CR Belouizdad rebuffed over Mohamed Zoungrana

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. MC Alger have kept their man, and CR Belouizdad go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Match

CR Belouizdad come up short against Paradou

Paradou left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Abdelhak Ben Idder

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief

Back issues
363 Edition

The CR Belouizdad Herald

11 Jul 2033
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Not going: Noa Cervantes stays at CR Belouizdad

“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” MC El Bayadh had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.

Market

Terms done: Baptiste Macon is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and JS Saoura waiting with a shirt. Nobody at CR Belouizdad is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Market

Mouhamadou Sall asks to leave CR Belouizdad

“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.

Market

CR Belouizdad say no — this time

The offer from MC El Bayadh for Souleymane Soumahoro was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad

Yanis Guermouche in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at CR Belouizdad this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Hamza Boualem

CR Belouizdad asked and FC Villefranche 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 at CR Belouizdad training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ethan Sutherland 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Aymen Mouyet

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

Squad

Sofiane Halliche signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Sofiane Halliche commits to CR Belouizdad for another 3 years.

In brief