Ibrahim Bakayoko

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29 Oct 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Ibrahim Bakayoko

117 Edition

The Panthere du Nde Herald

23 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Constant Sanga is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Panthere du Nde is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Mohamed Moluh Mounta 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 Panthere du Nde this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Panthere du Nde find a way past Colombe du Dja et Lobo

Colombe du Dja et Lobo made Panthere du Nde work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

The dugout

Ryan Pharel Kouam frozen out at Panthere du Nde

This is not rotation. Ryan Pharel Kouam has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Panthere du Nde is pretending otherwise.

Match

The run at home goes on for Panthere du Nde

8 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.

Squad

Ibrahim Bakayoko out for 57 days

The medical room confirms 57 days on the sidelines for Ibrahim Bakayoko, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Player ratings

Nobody on the pitch touched Maxime Nzeusseu Bassogog

7.96, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Panthere du Nde had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

Squad

Kenny Kima Beyissa 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.

The dugout

A satisfied Christian Bekale

“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 2‑1, Christian Bekale could afford to be generous.

In brief

Back issues
107 Edition

The Panthere du Nde Herald

14 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

The dugout

Moses Chima keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Panthere du Nde may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market

Constant Sanga 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 Panthere du Nde can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets

Fee done, terms next for Léon Dilane Balomog

Panthere du Nde and Fortuna Mfou have settled on $100.0K. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.

Squad

Tempers go at Panthere du Nde

Mohamed Moluh Mounta 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Panthere du Nde

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

The dugout

When it matters, Landry Yotchou plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Market

The Moses Chima story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Moses Chima signs something — a contract at Panthere du Nde or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

Match

Continental football is in reach for Panthere du Nde

42 points from position 4. The title is somebody else’s business and the drop is somebody else’s problem; what is left is the argument about passports.

Market

Panthere du Nde put Joseph Elie Tiba up for sale

The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Joseph Elie Tiba may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.

In brief