Serge Daura

Attacking Midfielder (C) - Fortuna Mfou
21 Nov 2027
Sunday
Process
55 Edition

The Fortuna Mfou Herald

16 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the Fortuna Mfou boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Market

Georges Aboubakar hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Fortuna Mfou can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Serge Daura is the real thing at 21

A season average of 7.13 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Fortuna Mfou know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.

In brief

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51 Edition

The Fortuna Mfou Herald

19 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the Fortuna Mfou boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Market

Georges Aboubakar hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Fortuna Mfou can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Serge Daura is the real thing at 21

A season average of 7.13 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Fortuna Mfou know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.

Market

Colombe du Dja et Lobo watching Franck Bekono

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Fortuna Mfou have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad

Jacques Jean Pondi 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.

Market

Talks stall between Fortuna Mfou and Marc Tsala Ndi

“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.

In brief

47 Edition

The Fortuna Mfou Herald

21 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the Fortuna Mfou boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Market

Joseph Zene Zobo has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Fortuna Mfou they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Serge Daura is the real thing at 21

A season average of 7.13 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Fortuna Mfou know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.

Market

Unisport Bafang are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Fortuna Mfou will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

Market

Marc Lafleur Essono linked with a move away

The name of Marc Lafleur Essono keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Fortuna Mfou say nothing, which says plenty.

Squad

Junior Patrick Akongo Evouna 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.

In brief

43 Edition

The Fortuna Mfou Herald

24 May 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the Fortuna Mfou boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Squad

Morel Ondobo Abena says Fortuna Mfou went back on their word

“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.

Squad

Serge Daura is the real thing at 21

A season average of 7.13 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Fortuna Mfou know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.

In brief

39 Edition

The Fortuna Mfou Herald

26 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the Fortuna Mfou boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Squad

Serge Daura is the real thing at 21

A season average of 7.13 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Fortuna Mfou know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.

Squad

Philippe Essama 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.

In brief

35 Edition

The Fortuna Mfou Herald

29 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Fortuna Mfou

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

Squad

Kazobar Kasongo says Fortuna Mfou went back on their word

“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.

Squad

At 21, Serge Daura is already the best thing here

An average of 7.13 in a first team he is several years too young for. Fortuna Mfou have something, and by now the whole division has noticed.

In brief

31 Edition

The Fortuna Mfou Herald

1 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Fortuna Mfou

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

Squad

At 21, Serge Daura is already the best thing here

An average of 7.13 in a first team he is several years too young for. Fortuna Mfou have something, and by now the whole division has noticed.

Squad

Aliou Souleyman Hendji 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.

Squad

No place for Philippe Essama on the big day

He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Fortuna Mfou pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.

Match

Honours even between Fortuna Mfou and Panthere du Nde

1-1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Squad

Jean Simplice Mbang is off the mark for Fortuna Mfou

The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.

In brief

29 Edition

The Fortuna Mfou Herald

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Fortuna Mfou sink to position 14

19 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Match

A bad afternoon for Fortuna Mfou against Aigle Royal de Moungo

0-2 to Aigle Royal de Moungo, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Jean Simplice Mbang 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.

In brief

28 Edition

The Fortuna Mfou Herald

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom

Fortuna Mfou put Clinton Kameni on notice

The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.

Match

Fortuna Mfou get the job done against Gazelle Garoua

A 2-0 win over Gazelle Garoua, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad

Ahmed Rabie 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.

Boardroom

Fortuna Mfou pull $113.2K back off the table

The money that was there in the summer is not there now. Nobody upstairs calls this a change of ambition, and everybody downstairs reads it as one.

Squad

Kévin Nzokou 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.

Squad

Solomon Nsoh unhappy with how he is being used

Asked to play a role that is not his, or taken off before the hour once too often — Solomon Nsoh has let it be known that he does not like the way Fortuna Mfou are using him. Managers hear this long before the press does.

Squad

The wait is over for Serge Daura

It went in off him and he did not care in the slightest. 3 for the season now, and a forward who has scored is a different footballer by Tuesday.

Market

The window shut and Alex Mani Onguene is still in the building

Fortuna Mfou spent a month trying to move him and nobody rang back. He trains with a squad that has told him where he stands, and both sides start counting down to the next one.

Boardroom

Fortuna Mfou answer back

A squad written off a fortnight ago has closed ranks. Whatever was said behind that door, it has held so far.

In brief

  • The terraces The press have found their man in Serge Daura
  • The terraces The stand has a song for Serge Daura
27 Edition

The Fortuna Mfou Herald

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

No end in sight to Fortuna Mfou's wait for a win

12 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Fortuna Mfou has to find a result from somewhere.

Boardroom

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Fortuna Mfou

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

Market

Aigle Royal de la Menoua come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Fortuna Mfou did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

At 21, Serge Daura is already the best thing here

An average of 7.07 in a first team he is several years too young for. Fortuna Mfou have something, and by now the whole division has noticed.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Jacques Jean Pondi

“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.

Loan watch

Marc Tsala Ndi has seen enough of Unisport Bafang

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Fortuna Mfou, and 15 appearances in 21 say he has earned the hearing.

Match

Fortuna Mfou draw a blank against Cotonsport Garoua

The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Cotonsport Garoua defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.

Squad

Is this Jacques Jean Pondi’s last season?

“I will know when it is time. I am not there yet.” Jacques Jean Pondi is 34, with 1 appearances behind him, and Fortuna Mfou will have to plan for whichever answer comes.

Market

The Marc Lafleur Essono talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Fortuna Mfou know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief

23 Edition

The Fortuna Mfou Herald

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

The cup run ends for Fortuna Mfou

1-2 against Cotonsport Garoua, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Match

No end in sight to Fortuna Mfou's wait for a win

8 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Fortuna Mfou has to find a result from somewhere.

Market

Jacques Jean Pondi hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Fortuna Mfou can pretend not to have heard.

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the Fortuna Mfou boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Squad

At 21, Serge Daura is already the best thing here

An average of 7.07 in a first team he is several years too young for. Fortuna Mfou have something, and by now the whole division has noticed.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Serge Eloundou

“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

Aminou Bouba has to sit this one out

A booking nobody needed, on a night the game was already won. Fortuna Mfou lose a player for the most avoidable reason there is.

Match

Fortuna Mfou draw a blank against Stade Renard de Melong

The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Stade Renard de Melong defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.

Boardroom

$113.2K taken back off the Fortuna Mfou table

What was available in the summer has quietly gone. Upstairs nobody will call it a change of ambition; downstairs nobody will call it anything else.

In brief

21 Edition

The Fortuna Mfou Herald

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Fortuna Mfou sink to position 14

11 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Match

5 matches without a win for Fortuna Mfou

The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Fortuna Mfou are no longer polite ones.

Match

Fortuna Mfou come up short against PWD Bamenda

PWD Bamenda left with the points after a 0-1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

In brief

19 Edition

The Fortuna Mfou Herald

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Jacques Jean Pondi hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Fortuna Mfou can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

At 20, Serge Daura is already the best thing here

An average of 7.04 in a first team he is several years too young for. Fortuna Mfou have something, and by now the whole division has noticed.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Jacques Jean Pondi

“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.

Loan watch

Marc Tsala Ndi has seen enough of Unisport Bafang

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Fortuna Mfou, and 7 appearances in 13 say he has earned the hearing.

Match

Fortuna Mfou and Victoria United take a point apiece

It finished 2-2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

Squad

Aminou Bouba finally opens his account

He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Fortuna Mfou have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.

In brief

18 Edition

The Fortuna Mfou Herald

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

A bad afternoon for Fortuna Mfou against Panthere du Nde

0-1 to Panthere du Nde, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Serge Eloundou 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.

Squad

Serge Daura named in the team of the week

A rating of 7.00 was enough for the selectors, and nobody who watched the match is going to argue with them.

In brief

15 Edition

The Fortuna Mfou Herald

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Jacques Jean Pondi hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Fortuna Mfou can pretend not to have heard.

Match

No end in sight to Fortuna Mfou's wait for a win

6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Fortuna Mfou has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

At 20, Serge Daura is already the best thing here

An average of 7.00 in a first team he is several years too young for. Fortuna Mfou have something, and by now the whole division has noticed.

In brief

13 Edition

The Fortuna Mfou Herald

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Fortuna Mfou are in real trouble now

Position 14, 4 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.

The terraces

The boos come down from three sides

“We pay for this every fortnight. The least we want is somebody who looks like he cares.” 7 of the 27 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.

Squad

Bryan Ramses Wirsiy says Fortuna Mfou went back on their word

“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.

Match

No end in sight to Fortuna Mfou's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Fortuna Mfou has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Aminou Bouba

“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.

Match

Dynamo Douala take the points off Fortuna Mfou

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

In brief

8 Edition

The Fortuna Mfou Herald

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

PWD Bamenda take the points off Fortuna Mfou

Beaten 1-2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

Junior Patrick Akongo Evouna 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.

Squad

Serge Daura is off the mark for Fortuna Mfou

The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.

In brief

3 Edition

The Fortuna Mfou Herald

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Gazelle Garoua watching Léon Dilane Balomog

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Fortuna Mfou have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Market

A long bet from Fortuna Mfou on Serge Daura

He is 20, and nobody at Fortuna Mfou signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

Market

Alex Mani Onguene told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Alex Mani Onguene has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Fortuna Mfou.

In brief