The Canon Yaounde Gazette
Market24 Aug 2026
Terms done: Franck Assiga Edoa is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Unisport Bafang waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Canon Yaounde is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market24 Aug 2026
Stéphane Bekolo turns Victoria United down
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Market24 Aug 2026
Joseph Tombi puts it in writing
“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 The request is on a desk at Canon Yaounde, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Ernest Inusah turns down Canon Yaounde
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Hasaacas keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Canon Yaounde
Junior Dande and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Door shut on Mady Dembélé
Canon Yaounde asked and Djoliba said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Canon Yaounde
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Issa Bangfome was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
A loan move for Youssou Coulibaly is in the works
Canon Yaounde have made the call to Stade Malien. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Canon Yaounde try to borrow Stanley Amon
Bayelsa United 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.
In brief
- Squad Sabo Gambo still has not settled
- Squad The training reports on Yves Aimé Zoa are not good