Marked for Marius Kalgong
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad9 Nov 2026
Maël Monyebe 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 Gazelle Garoua this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match7 Nov 2026
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Half-satisfied: Samuel Oyongo on the draw
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 1‑1, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Brayan Itende was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Wanre Daikreo, and the manager let it.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Maël Monyebe, 19, is the weekend’s best young player
Measured against every other kid in the division and first among them. The senior award is where Gazelle Garoua would like this to lead.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Jacques Kotto gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Jacques Kotto is on it.
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Upbeat
Squad26 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 9 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match24 Oct 2026
3‑0, and Abiola Dauda took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Gazelle Garoua tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.20, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Zacharie Ebogo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Gazelle Garoua training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Wanre Daikreo 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 ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Colbert Binni, and the manager let it.
Loan watch26 Oct 2026
“I did not go to Foullah Edifice to sit and watch. I want to come back to Gazelle Garoua and fight for my place.” 3 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Samuel Oyongo, on a 3‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
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Crisis
Squad28 Sep 2026
The step up is real for Dave Tessa
At 22 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Match26 Sep 2026
No end in sight to Gazelle Garoua's wait for a win
4 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Maël Monyebe 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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match26 Sep 2026
Panthere du Nde left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Match26 Sep 2026
No clean sheets in sight for Gazelle Garoua
4 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.
Squad28 Sep 2026
The medical room confirms 34 days on the sidelines for Marcel Fobang, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“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.
Loan watch28 Sep 2026
“I did not go to Foullah Edifice to sit and watch. I want to come back to Gazelle Garoua and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
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Steady
Market3 Aug 2026
“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 Gazelle Garoua, and it is not being withdrawn.
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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. AJ Auxerre have kept their man, and Gazelle Garoua go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
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
Canon Yaounde 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
Kendry Domingo is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Gazelle Garoua has been clear about where Kendry Domingo stands, which is more than many ever get.
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 Gazelle Garoua, another week without a signature from Colbert Binni.