The Paradou Post
Market10 Jan 2028
Terms done: Abdallah Bendouma is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and ES Mostaganem waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Paradou is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Player ratings10 Jan 2028
Mustapha Soukkou was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 32. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Transfer targets10 Jan 2028
Fee done, terms next for Issam Abdelhamid Naim
Paradou and ES Setif have settled on $280.0K. 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.
Market10 Jan 2028
Sofiane Benaceur puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Paradou, and it is not being withdrawn.
The dugout10 Jan 2028
Moncef Bisker keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Paradou may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market10 Jan 2028
Mohammed Kerroum is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Paradou is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad10 Jan 2028
Tempers go at Paradou
Adel Bouzida 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 targets10 Jan 2028
Door shut on Mohamed Idir Hadid
Paradou asked and CS Constantine said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Match8 Jan 2028
Paradou get the job done against USM Alger
A 2‑1 win over USM Alger, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
In brief
- Player ratings A masterclass from Adel Bouzida
- Squad Words at Paradou training over how hard people work
- Player ratings Mohamed Aït El Hadj was on a different afternoon to everybody else