The CR Belouizdad Herald
Squad11 Jan 2027
Raouf Benguit damages knee ligaments — 95 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 95 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Robert Ndip Tambe breaks a bone — 48 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 48 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Facundo Morales gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Facundo Morales has just signed for CR Belouizdad, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Naoufel Khacef 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.
Boardroom11 Jan 2027
Moncef Bisker will join CR Belouizdad for nothing
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Moncef Bisker has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means CR Belouizdad have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Match9 Jan 2027
CR Belouizdad find a way past ES Setif
ES Setif made CR Belouizdad work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Market11 Jan 2027
The Abdennour Iheb Belhocini conversation is coming
Everyone has stopped pretending: Hearts of Oak will make the call about Abdennour Iheb Belhocini this week. CR Belouizdad have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
One of those days for Chouaib Keddad
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.02, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
Abdennour Iheb Belhocini runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
In brief
- Market No place for Younes Ouassa in the plan
- Player ratings Stéphane Bahoken changes it off the bench
- Market CR Belouizdad shop where it costs nothing