The AS Bakaridjan Courier
Squad10 Aug 2026
Yankho Singo gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Yankho Singo has just signed for AS Bakaridjan, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Mercury Dlamini stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Mercury Dlamini and AS Bakaridjan agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Aboubacar Haïdara 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 AS Bakaridjan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Mohamed Naâmani has outgrown this division
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. AS Bakaridjan know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
Market10 Aug 2026
AS Bakaridjan and David Bethel 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
48 months and counting on Makan Camara
Still no offer on the table, and Makan Camara’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
In brief
- Market Senzo Hlophe joins AS Bakaridjan to strengthen the squad
- Market The Godbless Ayeke talk will not go away