The Canon Yaounde Gazette
Market16 Nov 2026
Évrard Beyong is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Canon Yaounde is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Canon Yaounde
Zacharie Ndongo Foé 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.
Loan watch16 Nov 2026
Paul Ombolo counts the days
“I watch every Canon Yaounde game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Victoria United runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words at Canon Yaounde training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Chijindu Godwill 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 dugout16 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Paulin Banda Nkounou
“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.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Diadié Samadiaré 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 Diadié Samadiaré trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
A promise honoured for Joël Bakanda
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Canon Yaounde told Joël Bakanda something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
Market16 Nov 2026
The Serge Daura question follows Canon Yaounde around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Serge Daura’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Wilfried Bilongo has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Wilfried Bilongo has written the date down.
In brief
- Looking ahead Canon Yaounde host Victoria United
- Squad Joël Bakanda named in the team of the week
- Squad Dieudonne Alex Essono Omgba is out on the grass again