“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Dynamo Douala have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Luke Kenda 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
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.
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
That is the business done at Dynamo Douala until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
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.
The deal that would have taken Cedric Mongo to Aigle Royal de Moungo has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Dynamo Douala with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Dynamo Douala asked and Vojvodina said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Joseph Alexandre Ndé and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
The plan went upstairs and came back down. Nothing about that will make a headline anywhere else, and everybody who works at the training ground will remember it for years.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Rudolph Heumen Yonkeu was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
A decision that decides nothing on the pitch and everything in the room. The manager has said, without saying it, whose voice he wants heard when his own is not there.
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Dynamo Douala people have started saying his name in the past tense.
The deal with Kano Pillars is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Vittel Feumi Yanou 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.
Rivers United have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.