Hakim Basla

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Process

Marked for Hakim Basla

52 Edition

The US Bougouni Herald

26 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

69 days out for Axel Thomelier after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. US Bougouni will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market

Sacha Barakat asks to leave US Bougouni

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Tom Auvré stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Tom Auvré and US Bougouni agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Waly Diabaté 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 US Bougouni this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

Stade Malien tell US Bougouni: Dramane Traoré 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.

The dugout

Gibril Bayoumi 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

A row about effort at US Bougouni

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

The dugout

Jailton Mundo 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 Jailton Mundo trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market

The Arthur Mazuy question follows US Bougouni around

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

In brief

Back issues
46 Edition

The US Bougouni Herald

14 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Jailton Mundo 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 US Bougouni can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Real improvement from Yacouba Ouattara at US Bougouni

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Yacouba Ouattara is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

Words exchanged at US Bougouni

Waly Diabaté 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 targets

US Bougouni rebuffed over Ousmane Diarra

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

The dugout

Jules Bournazeix 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.

Transfer targets

US Bougouni try to borrow Abdullah Monkhallah

Stade Malien have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

The dugout

Aires Nanque has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at US Bougouni 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.

Squad

A row about effort at US Bougouni

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

The dugout

Jailton Mundo knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at US Bougouni, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief