Yanis Daoud

Defensive Midfielder - Bromley
15 Jan 2028
Saturday
Process

Marked for Yanis Daoud

74 Edition

The Bromley Courier

27 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Bromley are in real trouble now

Position 22, 19 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Match

No end in sight to Bromley's wait for a win

6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Bromley has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

A falling-out at Bromley

Lamin Sillah and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

Gillingham take the points off Bromley

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Silko Thomas

Marked 8.20 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Match

Bromley share the spoils with Crewe Alexandra

A 1‑1 draw with Crewe Alexandra leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

The dugout

No hiding place for Tom Carroll

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

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Lamin Sillah

Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The dugout

John Parker on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” John Parker after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

In brief

Back issues
49 Edition

The Bromley Courier

5 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Tom Atcheson

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Bromley have done the hard part with Blackburn Rovers, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Transfer targets

Bromley make their move for Joe Worrall

$450.0K on the table at Wrexham. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Transfer targets

Bromley rebuffed over Kai Crampton

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Bournemouth have kept their man, and Bromley go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

A row about effort at Bromley

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Marco Ribeiro was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets

Bromley ask about Kyle Joseph

A loan enquiry to Middlesbrough: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Boardroom

Intake day at the Bromley academy

7 arrivals, an average age nobody would call a squad, and a set of parents being shown around a building their sons will spend more time in than at home. The scouting has already happened; today is only the paperwork.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Nicke Kabamba

“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.

Market

Still no ink between Bromley and Marco Ribeiro

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Bromley, another week without a signature from Marco Ribeiro.

The dugout

Corey Whitely 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 Corey Whitely trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

46 Edition

The Bromley Courier

14 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

Bromley agree $1.9M for Iyad Mohamed

The clubs have shaken hands with Portsmouth; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.

Squad

A falling-out at Bromley

Lamin Sillah and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Boardroom

Bromley beat the market to Boyd Beacroft from Reading

Reading will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Boyd Beacroft has pre-agreed a move to Bromley, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Benoný Breki Andrésson

Bromley asked and Stockport County said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

The dugout

Chris Sze gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad

Marco Ribeiro falls out with a teammate over standards

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.

Market

A long bet from Bromley on Bilel Mili

He is 20, and nobody at Bromley signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

Squad

Bilel Mili stays put

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

The dugout

Corey Whitely is still paying for one afternoon at Bromley

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

In brief

44 Edition

The Bromley Courier

31 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout

Dillon Addai says Bromley went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

Chris Sze 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 Bromley this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Gustavo Henriques gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Gustavo Henriques has just signed for Bromley, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Bromley

11 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

Market

Bromley sign Gustavo Henriques, one for the future

Gustavo Henriques is 20, and Bromley have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

Market

Bromley sign Noam Benramdane, one for the future

Noam Benramdane is 18, and Bromley have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

Market

Bromley buy the years ahead of Yanis Daoud

He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

Market

Bromley sign Lisandru Dottel, one for the future

Lisandru Dottel is 20, and Bromley have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

Squad

Fabiano Pacia signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Fabiano Pacia and Bromley agree another 4 years.

In brief