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4 Edition

The ES Setif Sentinel

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market24 Aug 2026

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 The request is on a desk at ES Setif, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets24 Aug 2026

An offer of $3.0M for Radhi Al-Otaibi

ES Setif have gone to Al-Ettifaq with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Transfer targets24 Aug 2026

ES Setif make their move for Salah Mohsen

$2.4M on the table at El Masry. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Boardroom24 Aug 2026

ES Setif go back to the board over Mohammed Kerroum

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $22.8K — a club that wants Mohammed Kerroum enough to be asked twice.

Transfer targets24 Aug 2026

Abdelhamid Ait Boudlal will not be coming to ES Setif

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Stade Rennais is saying, and nobody at ES Setif is enjoying the guessing.

Squad24 Aug 2026

A falling-out at ES Setif

Yanis Hamache and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

In brief

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3 Edition

The ES Setif Sentinel

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Boardroom17 Aug 2026

ES Setif go back to the board over Oualaa Moundhir Bouzekri

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $113.8K — a club that wants Oualaa Moundhir Bouzekri enough to be asked twice.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

The paperwork begins on Abdelhamid Ait Boudlal

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. ES Setif have done the hard part with Stade Rennais, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Words exchanged at ES Setif

Yanis Hamache and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

ES Setif bid $59.0K for Islam Eddine Slimane Tichtich

The offer went to JS Kabylie this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

No deal for Oualaa Moundhir Bouzekri at that price

ES Setif offered $110.0K; MC Alger said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

ES Setif rebuffed over Abdallah Bendouma

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Paradou have kept their man, and ES Setif go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

In brief

2 Edition

The ES Setif Sentinel

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Octave Joly turns down ES Setif

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Rodez AF keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Yanis Hamache in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at ES Setif this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Monaco tell ES Setif: Paris Brunner 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

Ahmed Soudani steps up from the ES Setif academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ahmed Soudani 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

ES Setif promote Abderrahmane Medjani from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Abderrahmane Medjani 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

Karim Bennacer steps up from the ES Setif academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Karim Bennacer 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

ES Setif promote Youcef Ounas from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Youcef Ounas 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.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Too much change too quickly at ES Setif

9 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

ES Setif try to borrow Abdelhamid Ait Boudlal

Stade Rennais 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

1 Edition

The ES Setif Sentinel

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad3 Aug 2026

Riad Benayad stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Riad Benayad and ES Setif agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad3 Aug 2026

A row about effort at ES Setif

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Kamel Chergui was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

Montpellier HSC tell ES Setif: Lucas Mincarelli 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.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Daniel Gnahoua in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at ES Setif this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Yanis Hamache has outgrown this division

There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. ES Setif know it, and so does everybody who watches him.

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

ES Setif try to borrow Paris Brunner

Monaco 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.

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

ES Setif try to borrow Octave Joly

Rodez AF 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.

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

ES Setif try to borrow Yacine Goudjil

MC Oran 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.

Market3 Aug 2026

Still no ink between ES Setif and Mudasiru Salifu

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at ES Setif, another week without a signature from Mudasiru Salifu.

In brief