Marked for Gilbert Neossi
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market21 Jun 2027
“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 The request is on a desk at PWD Bamenda, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Oshobe Oladele and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets21 Jun 2027
Aigle Royal de la Menoua wanted more than $22.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Zilkifilu Rabiu 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 dugout21 Jun 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Stephane Noah, and the manager let it.
The dugout21 Jun 2027
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Fon Boris Kache is on it.
The dugout21 Jun 2027
Alvin Binsto 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.
Squad21 Jun 2027
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Abdoullahi Sabo is not doing himself any favours
A manager forgives a bad Saturday far more readily than a bad Tuesday, because one of them he can explain and the other one he chose. The reports this week have not been good.
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Steady
Squad17 May 2027
33 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad17 May 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at PWD Bamenda this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 May 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Zilkifilu Rabiu was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout17 May 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ali Nsangou, and the manager let it.
The dugout17 May 2027
Bogard Agbor gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Bogard Agbor is on it.
Loan watch17 May 2027
6 goals in 25 games at Stade Renard de Melong — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at PWD Bamenda updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
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Steady
Squad19 Apr 2027
62 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Robert Ndip Tambe 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.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Zilkifilu Rabiu 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 dugout19 Apr 2027
“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 dugout19 Apr 2027
Bogard Agbor gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Bogard Agbor is on it.
Loan watch19 Apr 2027
6 goals in 25 games at Stade Renard de Melong — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at PWD Bamenda updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
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Upbeat
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.62 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Squad15 Feb 2027
A season average of 7.37 with 17 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Market15 Feb 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at PWD Bamenda is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Robert Ndip Tambe and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Zilkifilu Rabiu was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match13 Feb 2027
A 2‑1 win over Victoria United, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
Ninety minutes of Fon Boris Kache at his very best
Marked 8.87. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at PWD Bamenda.
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Steady
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 41. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market8 Feb 2027
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Unisport Bafang moved on, Kadad Ning Che reports back to PWD Bamenda, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Oshobe Oladele 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.
Match6 Feb 2027
Panthere du Nde left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. PWD Bamenda will try again when the window opens; Panthere du Nde may not be selling by then.
Loan watch8 Feb 2027
“I did not go to Victoria United to sit and watch. I want to come back to PWD Bamenda and fight for my place.” 3 appearances in 25 matches say the rest.
The dugout8 Feb 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 0‑1 Andre Choupo-Moting left the room before anybody could ask which.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words at PWD Bamenda training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kelvin Leku 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.
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Steady
Squad19 Oct 2026
Alvin Binsto breaks a bone — 42 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 42 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Jude Mamman, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.63
A mark of 7.63 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Junior Nguimbat and PWD Bamenda agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Gilbert Neossi is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Oshobe Oladele 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 terraces19 Oct 2026
He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Ninety minutes of Robert Ndip Tambe at his very best
Marked 8.76. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at PWD Bamenda.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
The offer from Fortuna Mfou for Gilbert Neossi was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Robert Ndip Tambe 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Zilkifilu Rabiu 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad17 Aug 2026
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. PWD Bamenda will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
A loan move for Jude Mamman is in the works
PWD Bamenda have made the call to Barau. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.