Mamadou Bashir

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Marked for Mamadou Bashir

150 Edition

The Westerlo Courier

11 Jun 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Transfer targets11 Jun 2029

$1.2M settles it between the clubs for Oumar Diouf

Sint-Truiden have accepted the money. What Westerlo do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.

Market11 Jun 2029

Sifiso Mazibuko 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 Westerlo can pretend not to have heard.

Squad11 Jun 2029

Yilber Aponzá gets the move he always wanted

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

Transfer targets11 Jun 2029

Toby Steward due for a Westerlo medical

Everything agreed with Portsmouth, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Squad11 Jun 2029

A falling-out at Westerlo

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

Squad11 Jun 2029

A row about effort at Westerlo

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

Transfer targets11 Jun 2029

Stade Rennais tell Westerlo: François Denis is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad11 Jun 2029

Mamadou Bashir out for 22 days

The medical room confirms 22 days on the sidelines for Mamadou Bashir, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

The dugout11 Jun 2029

Cisse Sandra gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Cisse Sandra is on it.

In brief

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146 Edition

The Westerlo Courier

14 May 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market14 May 2029

Amando Lapage 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 Westerlo, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad14 May 2029

Words exchanged at Westerlo

Anosike Ementa 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.

Squad14 May 2029

Cisse Sandra 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.

Squad14 May 2029

Westerlo lose Mamadou Bashir

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

The dugout14 May 2029

No hiding place for Luke Baartman

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

The dugout14 May 2029

Pape Diong has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Westerlo will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Market14 May 2029

The Andreas Jungdal question follows Westerlo around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Andreas Jungdal’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

The dugout14 May 2029

Serhiy Sydorchuk asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

The dugout14 May 2029

Ndoh Wamfor 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 Ndoh Wamfor has written the date down.

In brief