Éric Mefoe

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208 Edition

The Unisport Bafang Post

22 Jul 2030
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces22 Jul 2030

Anger at Unisport Bafang spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Squad22 Jul 2030

A fracture rules Gilbert Ngaffa out for 49 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Unisport Bafang will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match22 Jul 2030

Every point is an argument now for Unisport Bafang

Position 13 and 15 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Market22 Jul 2030

Éric Mefoe has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Unisport Bafang they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

The dugout22 Jul 2030

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The dugout22 Jul 2030

Alain Sifor keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Unisport Bafang may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market22 Jul 2030

Simon Onana asks to leave Unisport Bafang

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Transfer targets22 Jul 2030

Armhel Yandeme due for a Unisport Bafang medical

Everything agreed with Dynamo Douala, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Boardroom22 Jul 2030

Éric Mefoe signs for Fauve Azur Elite while still at Unisport Bafang

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Éric Mefoe has agreed terms with Fauve Azur Elite for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

In brief

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201 Edition

The Unisport Bafang Post

3 Jun 2030
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad3 Jun 2030

Marius Obekop breaks a bone — 65 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 65 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Boardroom3 Jun 2030

Unisport Bafang put Olivier Dawa on notice

The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.

Boardroom3 Jun 2030

Emergency meeting at Unisport Bafang

The whole football department in one room on a weekday morning. Nothing was announced afterwards, which is what a board announces when it has run out of patience.

Market3 Jun 2030

Éric Mefoe puts it in writing

“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 Unisport Bafang, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout3 Jun 2030

Desire Mbarga: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Unisport Bafang have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad3 Jun 2030

A falling-out at Unisport Bafang

Junior Rostand M'baï and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad3 Jun 2030

A row about effort at Unisport Bafang

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

Transfer targets3 Jun 2030

Door shut on Usman Fahad

Unisport Bafang asked and Cotonsport Garoua said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

The dugout3 Jun 2030

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In brief

199 Edition

The Unisport Bafang Post

20 May 2030
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad20 May 2030

79 days out for Marius Obekop after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Unisport Bafang will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Boardroom20 May 2030

The scrutiny sharpens at Unisport Bafang

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Unisport Bafang is running low.

Squad20 May 2030

Marc Tonye damages knee ligaments — 14 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 14 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market20 May 2030

Cedric Mongo hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Unisport Bafang can pretend not to have heard.

Squad20 May 2030

Tempers go at Unisport Bafang

Serge Andoulo 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.

Squad20 May 2030

Words at Unisport Bafang training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jean Ousama 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 dugout20 May 2030

Jean Ousama knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Unisport Bafang, and both men came out saying it was fine.

The dugout20 May 2030

No hiding place for Alain Sifor

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alain Sifor, and the manager let it.

The dugout20 May 2030

Michel Onguene has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Unisport Bafang will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief

195 Edition

The Unisport Bafang Post

22 Apr 2030
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad22 Apr 2030

108 days out for Marius Obekop after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Unisport Bafang will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Boardroom22 Apr 2030

Pressure builds in the Unisport Bafang boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Squad22 Apr 2030

A knee injury of the worst kind for Marc Tonye

45 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Unisport Bafang lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market22 Apr 2030

Simon Onana hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Unisport Bafang can pretend not to have heard.

Squad22 Apr 2030

Tempers go at Unisport Bafang

Junior Rostand M'baï 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.

Squad22 Apr 2030

Serge Andoulo 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.

In brief

194 Edition

The Unisport Bafang Post

15 Apr 2030
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad15 Apr 2030

A fracture rules Marius Obekop out for 115 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Unisport Bafang will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad15 Apr 2030

A knee injury of the worst kind for Emmanuel Hongla

20 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Unisport Bafang lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market15 Apr 2030

Cedric Mongo asks to leave Unisport Bafang

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad15 Apr 2030

Words exchanged at Unisport Bafang

Junior Rostand M'baï 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.

Squad15 Apr 2030

Éric Mefoe 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.

The dugout15 Apr 2030

No hiding place for Herval Joel Ndedi Kingue

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Herval Joel Ndedi Kingue, and the manager let it.

The dugout15 Apr 2030

When it matters, Marc Tonye plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Market15 Apr 2030

Still no signature from Cedric Mongo

3 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Unisport Bafang could get for him.

The dugout15 Apr 2030

Dieudonne Yann Mpito has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Dieudonne Yann Mpito has written the date down.

In brief

191 Edition

The Unisport Bafang Post

25 Mar 2030
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad25 Mar 2030

A knee injury of the worst kind for Gabin Allambatnan

15 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Unisport Bafang lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Boardroom25 Mar 2030

The scrutiny sharpens at Unisport Bafang

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Unisport Bafang is running low.

Market25 Mar 2030

Gabin Allambatnan asks to leave Unisport Bafang

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad25 Mar 2030

Tempers go at Unisport Bafang

Franck Tientcheu 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.

Squad25 Mar 2030

A row about effort at Unisport Bafang

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

The dugout25 Mar 2030

No hiding place for Dieudonne Yann Mpito

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Dieudonne Yann Mpito, and the manager let it.

Market25 Mar 2030

Éric Mefoe runs his contract down

4 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Unisport Bafang money.

The dugout25 Mar 2030

A door opens for Alain Sifor

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

The dugout25 Mar 2030

Chiemela Emmanuel asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief