The Binga Herald
Market24 Apr 2028
Anizar Ahamada asks to leave Binga
“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.
Market24 Apr 2028
Only the photograph left for Lucien Delaigle
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Lucien Delaigle will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Binga the goodbyes have quietly begun.
The dugout24 Apr 2028
Abdelaziz Youssouf frozen out at Binga
This is not rotation. Abdelaziz Youssouf has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Binga is pretending otherwise.
Squad24 Apr 2028
Aboubacar Wagué 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 Binga this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 Apr 2028
Words at Binga training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Madigoundo Diakité 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 dugout24 Apr 2028
Aboubacar Wagué gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Aboubacar Wagué is on it.
The dugout24 Apr 2028
Massiré Gassama knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Massiré Gassama trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout24 Apr 2028
No hiding place for Raphaël Oyemah
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Raphaël Oyemah, and the manager let it.
Market24 Apr 2028
Madigoundo Diakité linked with a move away
The name of Madigoundo Diakité keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Binga say nothing, which says plenty.
In brief
- Market Binga put Joël Matondo up for sale
- Squad Raphaël Oyemah has had enough of the bench
- Squad Victor Ntokon is not doing himself any favours