The ES Setif Sentinel
Transfer targets11 Aug 2036
FC Nordsjaelland tell ES Setif: Issaka Seidu 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.
Squad11 Aug 2036
A falling-out at ES Setif
Anis Fatahine and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market11 Aug 2036
CR Belouizdad join the queue for Rachid Haddad
Add another name to the list: CR Belouizdad have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Rachid Haddad. The answer from ES Setif has not changed — yet.
Squad11 Aug 2036
Iyad Mohamed 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.
Market11 Aug 2036
Talks stall between ES Setif and Oscar Destiny
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Squad11 Aug 2036
Sofiane Medjani stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Sofiane Medjani and ES Setif agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Transfer targets11 Aug 2036
ES Setif ask about Vinícius Braga
A loan enquiry to CSA: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
The dugout11 Aug 2036
When it matters, Houssem Tarzout plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Squad11 Aug 2036
No place for Amine Benaceur in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation ES Setif are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
In brief
- The dugout Koceila Ait Idir asks for a word with the manager
- Market Oscar Destiny linked with a move away
- Market Faouzi Benaceur placed on the list