Manuel Mbollo

Striker - Fauve Azur Elite
11 Oct 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Manuel Mbollo

10 Edition

The Fauve Azur Elite Courier

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces

The ground has had enough

“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 8 of the 28 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.

Player ratings

A first appearance Dieudonne Yann Mpito will want to forget — 5.72

Everybody's debut is one of two stories and this was the other one. 5.72, and the only consolation available is that nobody's career has ever been decided by ninety minutes in a shirt he had just been given.

Squad

Jamel Zock a Zock is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

Leonel Ntebeu Djoko 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 Fauve Azur Elite this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A late step up for Franck Vincent Kofana Bepegue

At 25 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.

Squad

Souleman Souleman 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.

Loan watch

Joseph Tientchou wants to come home

“I did not go to Gazelle Garoua to sit and watch. I want to come back to Fauve Azur Elite and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.

Match

A bad afternoon for Fauve Azur Elite against Aigle Royal de la Menoua

0‑2 to Aigle Royal de la Menoua, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Player ratings

Junior Kemajou-Dimabi could have had three

7 attempts, none of them in. He got into the right places all afternoon, which is the hard part, and did the easy part badly — and that is the version of a bad day a manager can live with.

In brief

Back issues
9 Edition

The Fauve Azur Elite Courier

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Junior Meke Zanga is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

Tempers go at Fauve Azur Elite

Souleman Souleman 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.

Squad

Luther Billiat gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Luther Billiat has just signed for Fauve Azur Elite, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad

No hiding place for Manuel Mbollo

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

Loan watch

Dimitri Mbele wants to come home

“I did not go to Gazelle Garoua to sit and watch. I want to come back to Fauve Azur Elite and fight for my place.” 1 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.

Match

Fauve Azur Elite and Fortuna Mfou cancel each other out

Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Fortuna Mfou came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.

In brief

7 Edition

The Fauve Azur Elite Courier

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Words at Fauve Azur Elite training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Souleman Souleman 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.

Match

Canon Yaounde take the points off Fauve Azur Elite

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

No hiding place for Moïse Sakava

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

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Moïse Sakava

Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings

Junior Kemajou-Dimabi keeps on missing

Shots: 7, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.

Squad

Pascal Omgba dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

In brief