Maurice Beboum

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Aigle Royal de la Menoua
24 Nov 2026
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Maurice Beboum

17 Edition

The Aigle Royal de la Menoua Sentinel

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The goals have deserted Aigle Royal de la Menoua

3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Aigle Royal de la Menoua can tell you which week it ends in.

Squad

Words at Aigle Royal de la Menoua training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Oko Onyedika 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

Dynamo Douala take the points off Aigle Royal de la Menoua

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

Squad

A falling-out at Aigle Royal de la Menoua

Ulrich Lobé and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Player ratings

Seini Hamit was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 16. 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 dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Olivier Mbeumo to a room that had heard them before.

Looking ahead

The leaders are next for Aigle Royal de la Menoua

Cotonsport Garoua top the table and they are coming into view. Nothing to lose, which is what every manager says before losing.

The dugout

No hiding place for Maurice Beboum

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

The dugout

Samuel Ngom Echabe is still paying for one afternoon at Aigle Royal de la Menoua

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

In brief

Back issues
7 Edition

The Aigle Royal de la Menoua Sentinel

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Eden Creol has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Aigle Royal de la Menoua they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Seini Hamit

Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Aigle Royal de la Menoua count the cost of losing Maurice Beboum

29 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Player ratings

Ulrich Lobé was the difference for Aigle Royal de la Menoua

Marked 7.85. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

Match

Aigle Royal de la Menoua share the spoils with Panthere du Nde

A 1‑1 draw with Panthere du Nde leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Olivier Mbeumo chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.

Squad

Words at Aigle Royal de la Menoua training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rostand Aliana Fossi 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 dugout

The manager makes an example of Rostand Aliana Fossi

“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.

Squad

Oko Onyedika remains an outsider

A year in and the city has not opened up, the language has not come, and lunch is eaten alone more often than anybody at Aigle Royal de la Menoua would admit. It shows on Saturdays.

In brief