The Stade Renard de Melong Chronicle
Market24 Jan 2028
Wanre Daikreo hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Stade Renard de Melong can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings24 Jan 2028
Both of them Moustapha Bissene's — 8.64
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.64, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Market24 Jan 2028
Vladimir Limaleba has said yes to Dynamo Douala
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Stade Renard de Melong have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Player ratings24 Jan 2028
Jean François Popess Manguele, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 8.02
A mark of 8.02 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Market24 Jan 2028
Only the photograph left for Jean Simplice Mbang
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Jean Simplice Mbang will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Stade Renard de Melong the goodbyes have quietly begun.
The dugout24 Jan 2028
Jonathan Noundem keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Stade Renard de Melong may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad24 Jan 2028
Home is on Ayo Obileye's mind
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Stade Renard de Melong are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad24 Jan 2028
A falling-out at Stade Renard de Melong
Ayo Obileye and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The terraces24 Jan 2028
One of their own: Jean François Popess Manguele
He is 20 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
In brief
- Match Moustapha Bissene the difference as Stade Renard de Melong beat Fortuna Mfou
- Market Eyes on Felix Koné Lottin again
- Squad Trésor Mbengue falls out with a teammate over standards