Stephane Noah

Left Wingback - Stade Renard de Melong
24 Jun 2029
Sunday
Process

Marked for Stephane Noah

132 Edition

The Stade Renard de Melong Chronicle

5 Feb 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

David Mbazo'o 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 Stade Renard de Melong can pretend not to have heard.

Market

So close: Moustapha Bissene’s move dies late

The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Unisport Bafang moved on, Moustapha Bissene reports back to Stade Renard de Melong, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.

Match

No end in sight to Stade Renard de Melong's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Stade Renard de Melong has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Gastón Costas stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Gastón Costas and Stade Renard de Melong agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Sid Ali Lamri 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 Stade Renard de Melong this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Stade Renard de Melong training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Joe Cole Mbella is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Match

Stade Renard de Melong come up short against Aigle Royal de Moungo

Aigle Royal de Moungo left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Sid Ali Lamri 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.

Player ratings

Ogino Zeukang runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

Back issues
123 Edition

The Stade Renard de Melong Chronicle

4 Dec 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

No end in sight to Stade Renard de Melong's wait for a win

13 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Stade Renard de Melong has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Georges Anguissa

25 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Stade Renard de Melong lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market

Samuel Isife 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 Stade Renard de Melong, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Tempers go at Stade Renard de Melong

Moustapha Bissene 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

Joe Cole Mbella 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Stade Renard de Melong against Unisport Bafang

0‑2 to Unisport Bafang, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Narcisse Allamine 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Joe Cole Mbella

Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

Talks stall between Stade Renard de Melong and Julien Patrice Belemb

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

In brief

57 Edition

The Stade Renard de Melong Chronicle

30 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Stade Renard de Melong are in real trouble now

Position 13, 17 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.

Boardroom

The scrutiny sharpens at Stade Renard de Melong

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Stade Renard de Melong is running low.

Market

Sali Boubakary Li is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Stade Renard de Melong is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Market

Victor Ntokon 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 Stade Renard de Melong can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Real improvement from Stephane Noah at Stade Renard de Melong

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Stephane Noah is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

Yannick Epané 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 Stade Renard de Melong this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief