Abbas Maigué

Central Defender - Retired
30 Jan 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Abbas Maigué

11 Edition

The Gazelle Herald

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

A 2-goal lead gone for Gazelle

It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. Stars Jeunes Talents kept coming because nothing stopped them, and Gazelle will be asked about the last half hour all week.

Market

Oybek Shomurodov asks to leave Gazelle

“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 ratings

Both of them Abiola Dauda's — 8.14

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.14, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad

Real improvement from Adoum Fachir at Gazelle

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Adoum Fachir is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

Abbas Maigué 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 Gazelle this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

No hiding place for Youness Mokhtar

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Youness Mokhtar, and the manager let it.

Squad

Words at Gazelle training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Oybek Shomurodov 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.

Player ratings

Musa Wakili did the work nobody counts — 6.95

9 combined actions and 6.95. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.

Match

Gazelle and Stars Jeunes Talents 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.

In brief

Back issues
10 Edition

The Gazelle Herald

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Market

Ospina Egbe puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Gazelle, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings

Both of them Musa Wakili's — 8.38

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.38, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad

Ospina Egbe wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Gazelle know it.

Boardroom

4 academy players handed senior numbers at Gazelle

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Squad

A late step up for Abdelaziz Makine

At 31 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.

Squad

Azizbek Abdumajidov stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Azizbek Abdumajidov and Gazelle agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Match

Gazelle see off US Moursal

Three points for Gazelle, 2‑0 the final word against US Moursal in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Market

Gazelle promote Saleh Mbainaissem from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Saleh Mbainaissem has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

One of our own: Djibrine Hissein joins the Gazelle first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Djibrine Hissein is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief

7 Edition

The Gazelle Herald

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A move Oybek Shomurodov would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Oybek Shomurodov is living that version at Gazelle, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad

Adoum Fachir is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 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.

Squad

Gazelle lose Abbas Maigué

17 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Market

Gazelle finally fill the problem position with Azizbek Abdumajidov

Every supporter in the ground could have named the hole in this team, and most of them did, loudly, for months. Azizbek Abdumajidov has been signed to close it.

Squad

Words at Gazelle training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Oybek Shomurodov 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.

Market

Gazelle pick up Rifqi Farandi for nothing

The best deals are the ones the accountants never notice. Rifqi Farandi arrives at Gazelle with his wages the only cost and something to prove the only clause.

In brief

2 Edition

The Gazelle Herald

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A muscle injury sidelines Andika Wisnu for 16 days

Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Gazelle will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.

Squad

Ospina Egbe signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ospina Egbe and Gazelle agree another 2 years.

Squad

Abbas Maigué 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 Gazelle this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief