Fabien Dongmo

Central Defender - US Bougouba
26 Sep 2028
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Fabien Dongmo

109 Edition

The US Bougouba Chronicle

28 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Only the photograph left for Lucan Louw

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Lucan Louw will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around US Bougouba the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Market

Shiva Pillay asks to leave US Bougouba

“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

Real improvement from Fabien Dongmo at US Bougouba

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Fabien Dongmo is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

Tempers go at US Bougouba

Favour Onukwuli 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

Sebastián Píriz 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.

Squad

Andrew Waswa has improved at 24, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

In brief

Back issues
54 Edition

The US Bougouba Chronicle

9 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Mamoutou Berthé is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

Kareem Ibrahim signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Kareem Ibrahim commits to US Bougouba for another 4 years.

Squad

César Horst 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 Bougouba this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

53 Edition

The US Bougouba Chronicle

2 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Kareem Ibrahim stays put

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

Squad

Zulfiqor Akbarov wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and US Bougouba know it.

Squad

Tempers go at US Bougouba

César Horst 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

Matías Aguirregaray 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.

Market

Thabiso Msele is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at US Bougouba has been clear about where Thabiso Msele stands, which is more than many ever get.

Market

Mamoutou Berthé linked with a move away

The name of Mamoutou Berthé keeps appearing in other people's back pages. US Bougouba say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief