The AS Bakaridjan Courier
Squad11 Jan 2027
Bakary Kouma keeps AS Bakaridjan in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad11 Jan 2027
David Weke gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. David Weke has just signed for AS Bakaridjan, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad11 Jan 2027
El Mehdi El Bassil 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.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
A masterclass from Sani Mubarak
Marked 9.03 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad11 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Hicham El Aroui
“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.
Market11 Jan 2027
AS Korofina join the queue for Fousseny Tangara
Add another name to the list: AS Korofina have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Fousseny Tangara. The answer from AS Bakaridjan has not changed — yet.
Match9 Jan 2027
Sani Mubarak sends AS Bakaridjan past Binga
It finished 1‑0, and it was Sani Mubarak’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to AS Bakaridjan.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
Aboubacar Haïdara was immovable
19 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
Market11 Jan 2027
Still no ink between AS Bakaridjan and Bright Ethaghara
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at AS Bakaridjan, another week without a signature from Bright Ethaghara.
In brief
- Player ratings Justus Ohanu runs at them all day
- Market Bright Ethaghara linked with a move away
- Market David Weke joins AS Bakaridjan to strengthen the squad