“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Aigle Royal de Moungo have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
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.
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 Moungo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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.
Samuel Tengoh wins it after the whistle should have gone
90 minutes played. Samuel Tengoh found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Panthere du Nde went from a point to nothing inside one movement.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Up for the corner, and Samuel Tengoh delivers — 7.35
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Samuel Tengoh scored, was marked 7.35, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Dimitri Mbele is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Jefferson Araújo 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Olivier Kouoh Dicka 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.
A 1‑0 win over Panthere du Nde, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
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.
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 Moungo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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.
Adama Traoré 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jean Paul Ndoung 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 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.
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Adama Traoré has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Cyrien Saha Bikim. 2‑0 against Gazelle Garoua, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Marked 8.09. 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 Moungo.
0‑3 against Cotonsport Garoua, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
“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 Aigle Royal de Moungo, and it is not being withdrawn.
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Dimitri Mbele is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Olivier Kouoh Dicka 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.
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $24.0K for Dimitri Mbele, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Jean Ngamaleu has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Pierre Mani has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Edgar Ntcham has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
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 Moungo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 14 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Samuel Tengoh 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.