Ilan Daf

Central Midfielder - AS Police
15 Jan 2028
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Marked for Ilan Daf

71 Edition

The AS Police Sentinel

6 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces6 Dec 2027

Supporters organise against the AS Police board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Match4 Dec 2027

8 matches without a win for AS Police

The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around AS Police are no longer polite ones.

Squad6 Dec 2027

Tempers go at AS Police

Oumar Koné 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.

Match4 Dec 2027

Mamadou Sidibé’s goal not enough for AS Police

Mamadou Sidibé scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑3 to Djoliba, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Squad6 Dec 2027

Moyi Hassan 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 dugout6 Dec 2027

No hiding place for Brahim Sabaouni

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

Market6 Dec 2027

Talks stall between AS Police and Moyi Hassan

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

The dugout6 Dec 2027

Ibrahim Sacko answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑3, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

Squad6 Dec 2027

Ilan Daf is no longer first choice

The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Ilan Daf has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.

In brief

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64 Edition

The AS Police Sentinel

18 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad18 Oct 2027

A knee injury of the worst kind for Oumar Koné

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

Player ratings18 Oct 2027

Kénan Glougbé runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 30. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad18 Oct 2027

Oumar Koné 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 AS Police this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad18 Oct 2027

A row about effort at AS Police

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

Match16 Oct 2027

AS Police come up short against FC Diarra

FC Diarra left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout18 Oct 2027

Ibrahim Sacko answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

The dugout18 Oct 2027

No hiding place for Anthony Gonzalez

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

The dugout18 Oct 2027

Adam Zenati 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 AS Police, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market18 Oct 2027

The Seydou Diallo question follows AS Police around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Seydou Diallo’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief

35 Edition

The AS Police Sentinel

29 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces29 Mar 2027

The mood at AS Police has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Match29 Mar 2027

AS Police are in real trouble now

Position 14, 9 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Boardroom29 Mar 2027

The silence upstairs is getting loud at AS Police

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Squad29 Mar 2027

Real improvement from Gibril Bayoumi at AS Police

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Gibril Bayoumi is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad29 Mar 2027

Words exchanged at AS Police

Oumar Koné 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.

Squad29 Mar 2027

A row about effort at AS Police

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

The dugout29 Mar 2027

AS Police keep their word to Siaka Keïta

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

The dugout29 Mar 2027

The manager makes an example of Edgar Nanque

“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.

Squad29 Mar 2027

No place for Ilan Daf in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation AS Police are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

In brief

34 Edition

The AS Police Sentinel

22 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match20 Mar 2027

No end in sight to AS Police's wait for a win

13 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at AS Police has to find a result from somewhere.

Player ratings22 Mar 2027

Adam Zenati, 21, steals the show — 7.66

Marked 7.66 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Squad22 Mar 2027

Tempers go at AS Police

Oumar Koné 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 Mar 2027

A move Ilan Daf would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Ilan Daf is living that version at AS Police, and it tends to show in the first month.

Match20 Mar 2027

Kénan Glougbé’s goal not enough for AS Police

Kénan Glougbé scored, and precious little else went right: 2‑3 to US Bougouba, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Squad22 Mar 2027

Yaya Konaté 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.

Match20 Mar 2027

No clean sheets in sight for AS Police

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.

The dugout22 Mar 2027

Yaya Konaté 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.

The dugout22 Mar 2027

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 2‑3 Ibrahim Sacko left the room before anybody could ask which.

In brief