Algeria brilliant players postpone transfers
Algeria’s international players preferred to stay in their clubs until the World Cup finals are over for various reasons.
- Yebda and Belhadj most wanted by European clubs
- Portsmouth’s Hassan Yebda and Nadir Belhadj have been the most wanted by the strongest European clubs especially the English ones.
- French club Lens is still claiming for its money from Belhadj’s transfer. Yebda is still retained by a contract with Portugese Club Benfica.
- Strong Italian clubs such as Inter Milan and Juventus want to take Yebda along with other English and Spanish clubs. Arsenal’s French Coach Arsene Wenger insisted on taking the player in the next transfers period.
- Yebda said he will stay in his club until the end of the season while its coach refused to let him go.
- Belhadj preferred to report his transfer until the end of the World Cup especially that he is now a principal player in Portsmouth again.
- Mansouri and Ziani will stay in their clubs
- Algeria’s captain Yazid Mansouri decided to stay in his French club Lorient. “I finally decided to stay in my club. Lorient’s officials did not allow me to join another club although an English one insisted on me,” he told reporters as he arrived to Algeria on Sunday.
- Ziani decided to stay in Wolfsburg though Turkish club Fenerbahce insisted on him.
- Bouguerra: transfer will be after World Cup
- The best Algerian player in the 2010 African Cup Madjid Bouguerra preferred to stay in his club Rangers. He said he is not in a hurry and he will end the season with his club.
- Lemouchia is free from any commitment
- Khaled Lemmouchia will find himself free from any commitment by the end of the season. His planned move to a French club failed.
- His contract with Algeria’s Es Setif will expire in June. Sources say he may not play with the National squad in South Africa.
- Saadane: players should be stable before World Cup
- Algeria’s coach Rabeh Saadane asked his players to not rush things and to think in their football future positively. He advised them to stay in their clubs until the end of the World Cup.