The Gazelle Garoua Courier
Market11 Sep 2028
Gazelle Garoua say no — this time
The offer from Fauve Azur Elite for Arsene Mekila was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad11 Sep 2028
Words exchanged at Gazelle Garoua
Housseini Ousmanou 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.
Transfer targets11 Sep 2028
Fauve Azur Elite tell Gazelle Garoua: Manuel Mbollo 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 Sep 2028
A move Yacine Boulegheb would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Yacine Boulegheb is living that version at Gazelle Garoua, and it tends to show in the first month.
Boardroom11 Sep 2028
Gazelle Garoua still without a manager
10 days since the seat came open, a list of names doing the rounds, and nobody has signed anything. Every week this drags on the shortlist gets shorter.
Boardroom11 Sep 2028
Gazelle Garoua beat the market to Holivan Almeida from Canon Yaounde
Canon Yaounde will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Holivan Almeida has pre-agreed a move to Gazelle Garoua, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Squad11 Sep 2028
Too much change too quickly at Gazelle Garoua
9 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.
Squad11 Sep 2028
No place for Conrad Njuma in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Gazelle Garoua are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
Market11 Sep 2028
The ambition of Ferdinand Notani outgrows Gazelle Garoua early
Signings arrive with a picture of the club in their head, and this one’s picture was bigger than the building. He will play well and he will be gone, in that order, and everybody knows it.
In brief
- Looking ahead Didas Miafang faces his old club
- The dugout Jordy Doumbe Youmba knocks on the manager's door
- Market Window shut, Dieudonné Noumonvi still here