The CS Constantine Courier
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at CS Constantine
Tosin Omoyele and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Ajax Cape Town tell CS Constantine: Ronwen Mokotjo 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Karim Bounedjah joins the CS Constantine first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Karim Bounedjah is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Nabil Mandi steps up from the CS Constantine academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Nabil Mandi 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
CS Constantine promote Mourad Bensebaini from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Mourad Bensebaini has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Ali Ghoulam joins the CS Constantine first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ali Ghoulam is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad10 Aug 2026
7 new faces, and CS Constantine are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Squad10 Aug 2026
The formation has left Zakaria Mansouri behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. CS Constantine will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
CS Constantine try to borrow Sunusi Ibrahim
Ittihad 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.
In brief
- Transfer targets CS Constantine ask about Morgan Mokotjo
- Squad Zakaria Mansouri remains an outsider