Cédric Minlo

Right Midfielder - Dynamo Douala
17 Sep 2028
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108 Edition

The Dynamo Douala Gazette

21 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market21 Aug 2028

Cédric Minlo asks to leave Dynamo Douala

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market21 Aug 2028

Yves Mbappe is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Dynamo Douala is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad21 Aug 2028

Real improvement from Luke Kenda at Dynamo Douala

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Luke Kenda is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad21 Aug 2028

Tempers go at Dynamo Douala

Taiwo Olonisakin 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.

Squad21 Aug 2028

Arnauvy Mombouli has improved at 24, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

Squad21 Aug 2028

Words at Dynamo Douala training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ameur Bouguettaya 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.

In brief

Back issues
104 Edition

The Dynamo Douala Gazette

24 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad24 Jul 2028

Sanda Oumarou 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.

Market24 Jul 2028

Dynamo Douala say no — this time

The offer from Unisport Bafang for Jules Kebel 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.

Market24 Jul 2028

Cédric Minlo 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 Dynamo Douala can pretend not to have heard.

Market24 Jul 2028

Only the photograph left for Yves Mbappe

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Yves Mbappe will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Dynamo Douala the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad24 Jul 2028

Tempers go at Dynamo Douala

Taiwo Olonisakin 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.

Squad24 Jul 2028

Marcel Hongla is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 17 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.

In brief

66 Edition

The Dynamo Douala Gazette

1 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market1 Nov 2027

Manuel Maurice Nkoulou asks to leave Dynamo Douala

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Player ratings1 Nov 2027

Age has not caught Kabelo Mahlasela yet — 8.17

At 36 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.17 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad1 Nov 2027

Junior Dande in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dynamo Douala this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match30 Oct 2027

Still nobody has beaten Dynamo Douala

The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Player ratings1 Nov 2027

Nobody could get near Jules Armand Kooh

Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad1 Nov 2027

The manager makes an example of Junior Dande

“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.

Squad1 Nov 2027

Words at Dynamo Douala training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Joseph Alexandre Ndé 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.

Market1 Nov 2027

Dynamo Douala and Ikenna Nkwazema are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Player ratings1 Nov 2027

The cruellest goal, and it is Patrick Fergani's

A touch he did not want, a bounce he could not have read, and his name in the wrong column. There is no consoling a man after one of these, and Dynamo Douala will not try tonight.

In brief

63 Edition

The Dynamo Douala Gazette

11 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match6 Oct 2027

Cédric Minlo sends Dynamo Douala through

Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Cédric Minlo obliged against Panthere du Nde. 2‑1 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Dynamo Douala.

Match6 Oct 2027

Cédric Minlo wins it after the whistle should have gone

95 minutes played. Cédric Minlo 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.

Squad11 Oct 2027

A one-man rearguard from Junior Dande

There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Market11 Oct 2027

Franck Talla asks to leave Dynamo Douala

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market11 Oct 2027

Only the photograph left for Luke Kenda

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Luke Kenda will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Dynamo Douala the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad11 Oct 2027

Tempers go at Dynamo Douala

Junior Dande 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.

Match9 Oct 2027

Patrick Fergani sends Dynamo Douala past Fauve Azur Elite

It finished 2‑1, and it was Patrick Fergani’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Dynamo Douala.

The terraces11 Oct 2027

The crowd has taken to Patrick Fergani

At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Player ratings11 Oct 2027

Ninety minutes of Cédric Minlo at his very best

Marked 8.36. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Dynamo Douala.

In brief