Tony Achu

Defensive Midfielder - Aigle Royal de la Menoua
27 Dec 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Tony Achu

21 Edition

The Aigle Royal de la Menoua Sentinel

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

9 saves: Ismaël Fansu was the team

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.

Market

Only the photograph left for Eden Creol

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Eden Creol will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Aigle Royal de la Menoua the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Match

Seini Hamit the difference as Aigle Royal de la Menoua beat Colombe du Dja et Lobo

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Seini Hamit. 3‑1 against Colombe du Dja et Lobo, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

The terraces

One of their own: Igor Ngah Essomba

He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Tony Achu at his very best

Marked 8.08. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Aigle Royal de la Menoua.

Match

Halfway: Aigle Royal de la Menoua sit in position 6

20 points at the turn. The first half of a season is a promise; the second is a bill, and the town is about to find out which of the two this one was.

Squad

A falling-out at Aigle Royal de la Menoua

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

The dugout

Nicolas Bekale: “That is the standard”

“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 3‑1, already talking about the next one.

Squad

A row about effort at Aigle Royal de la Menoua

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

In brief

Back issues
18 Edition

The Aigle Royal de la Menoua Sentinel

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Ismaël Fansu

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

The dugout

Julien Patrice Belemb says Aigle Royal de la Menoua went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Player ratings

A defender's goal wins it for Aigle Royal de la Menoua — 7.33

1 for Tony Achu, marked 7.33, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.

Squad

Words exchanged at Aigle Royal de la Menoua

Ulrich Lobé 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.

Match

Aigle Royal de la Menoua and Cotonsport Garoua take a point apiece

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 dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Nicolas Bekale was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the Aigle Royal de la Menoua dressing room was either.

Squad

A row about effort at Aigle Royal de la Menoua

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

The dugout

Luc Stéphane Ndong gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad

Tony Achu is off the mark for Aigle Royal de la Menoua

The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.

In brief

5 Edition

The Aigle Royal de la Menoua Sentinel

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Terms done: Eden Creol is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Aigle Royal de Moungo waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Aigle Royal de la Menoua is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Squad

Julien Patrice Belemb 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 Aigle Royal de la Menoua this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Tony Achu is out on the grass again

He came through the session, took part in everything and finished it smiling. Aigle Royal de la Menoua will not rush him, and he will spend the next fortnight trying to rush them.