Ari Tiente

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Gazelle
17 Sep 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Ari Tiente

104 Edition

The Gazelle Herald

24 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Shalev Gindi damages knee ligaments — 123 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 123 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market

Dwiky Hardiansyah asks to leave Gazelle

“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

Ari Tiente is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 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

Tempers go at Gazelle

Roee Fucs 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

Alejandro Ayala 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

Aiglons expected to open talks for Behruz Soatov

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Gazelle will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

In brief

Back issues
75 Edition

The Gazelle Herald

3 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

14 unbeaten for Gazelle

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 14 matches without defeat is a foundation Gazelle did not have in the autumn.

Squad

Derick Ogbu is named among the best

There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Gazelle will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.

Squad

Junior Andrew Khan keeps the receipts

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

Squad

Hakeem Otuyiga stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Hakeem Otuyiga and Gazelle agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Osée Natoyoum 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 Gazelle this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

A long bet from Gazelle on Abdulhamid Kabiru

He is 20, and nobody at Gazelle signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

Match

Gazelle and US Moursal take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Adoum Fachir

Successful dribbles: 11. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings

Hassane Boudina could not find anything

5.65. Every footballer has these and most of them happen away from a full ground; his did not, and he will be aware of that all week.

In brief