Marked for Marius Kalgong
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match12 Dec 2026
No end in sight to Gazelle Garoua's wait for a win
13 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Gazelle Garoua has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Jude Enow Enow and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Djakao Barka, and the manager let it.
Squad14 Dec 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Prat Manyo and Gazelle Garoua agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Match12 Dec 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Jean Kameni: “We have to be better”
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 1‑1 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Colbert Binni 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Prat Manyo: “I am not a substitute”
“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Gazelle Garoua will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.
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Uneasy
Match28 Nov 2026
11 matches without a win for Gazelle Garoua
The run now stands at 11, and the questions being asked around Gazelle Garoua are no longer polite ones.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Gazelle Garoua may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad30 Nov 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 Gazelle Garoua this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Marius Kalgong ran the middle of the pitch — 6.87
He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 11 combined actions and a mark of 6.87, and not one of them will make a highlights package.
Match28 Nov 2026
Late, late show earns Gazelle Garoua a point
Minute 87, against Fortuna Mfou, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Wanre Daikreo 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.
Match28 Nov 2026
A 1‑1 draw with Fortuna Mfou leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Colbert Binni
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Jean Kameni was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the Gazelle Garoua dressing room was either.
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Uneasy
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Marked 7.90 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Squad28 Sep 2026
6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Arsene Mekila is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Housseini Ousmanou 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.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Djakao Barka
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match26 Sep 2026
2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Jean Kameni was not hiding it after 2‑2, and nobody in the Gazelle Garoua dressing room was either.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Gazelle Garoua training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ange Constant Kenfack 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.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
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Steady
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Gazelle Garoua have done the hard part with Fauve Azur Elite, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Fauve Azur Elite is saying, and nobody at Gazelle Garoua is enjoying the guessing.
Squad17 Aug 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 Gazelle Garoua this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Gazelle Garoua asked and Colombe du Dja et Lobo said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Patrick Fergani 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Gazelle Garoua are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
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Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Marius Kalgong commits to Gazelle Garoua for another 3 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Maël Monyebe and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad3 Aug 2026
This league is too small for Abiola Dauda
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. Gazelle Garoua will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Market3 Aug 2026
49 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Colombe du Dja et Lobo 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
A loan move for Kazobar Kasongo is in the works
Gazelle Garoua have made the call to Fortuna Mfou. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.