The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Dynamo Douala people have started saying his name in the past tense.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dynamo Douala this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Vittel Feumi Yanou 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.
Still no offer on the table, and Vittel Feumi Yanou’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Stade Malien 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.