Marked for Moïse Sakava
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad28 Sep 2026
Junior Meke Zanga is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Souleman Souleman 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Luther Billiat gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Luther Billiat has just signed for Fauve Azur Elite, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad28 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Manuel Mbollo, and the manager let it.
Loan watch28 Sep 2026
“I did not go to Gazelle Garoua to sit and watch. I want to come back to Fauve Azur Elite and fight for my place.” 1 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
Match26 Sep 2026
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Fortuna Mfou came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Back issues
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Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Dieudonne Yann Mpito is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad21 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Fauve Azur Elite this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Fauve Azur Elite training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Agustín Segundo is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.72, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.44, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad21 Sep 2026
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Fauve Azur Elite will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Crisis
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Fauve Azur Elite training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Souleman Souleman is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match12 Sep 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Moïse Sakava, and the manager let it.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Shots: 7, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Pascal Omgba dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
The bid was some way short and Fauve Azur Elite did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Souleman Souleman 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Fauve Azur Elite, another week without a signature from Leonel Ntebeu Djoko.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market3 Aug 2026
The offer from Fortuna Mfou for Dieudonne Yann Mpito was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Moïse Sakava 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 Fauve Azur Elite this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Souleman Souleman 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
The name of Dimitri Mbele has come up in conversations Fauve Azur Elite were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Fauve Azur Elite, another week without a signature from Souleman Souleman.