The ES Setif Sentinel
Market5 Jul 2027
Mohamed Boukerma 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 The request is on a desk at ES Setif, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market5 Jul 2027
Terms done: Mohamed Benlebna is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and ES Ben Aknoun waiting with a shirt. Nobody at ES Setif is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
The dugout5 Jul 2027
Daniel Gnahoua keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” ES Setif may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Transfer targets5 Jul 2027
The paperwork begins on Jeremy Agbonifo
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. ES Setif have done the hard part with RC Lens, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Tempers go at ES Setif
Omari Kellyman 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.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Bathusi Aubaas 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 targets5 Jul 2027
ES Setif rebuffed over Quentin Paris
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. FC Annecy have kept their man, and ES Setif go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Sofiane Belmadi out for 22 days
The medical room confirms 22 days on the sidelines for Sofiane Belmadi, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
The dugout5 Jul 2027
Siyanda Ndlovu is still paying for one afternoon at ES Setif
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
In brief
- Squad “I want to play”: Omari Kellyman speaks
- Transfer targets ES Setif try to borrow Jody Ah Shene
- Boardroom Intake day at the ES Setif academy