The Gazelle Garoua Courier
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
A brace, and Eden Creol takes the afternoon — 8.39
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Eden Creol provided it, and the 8.39 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Marcel Djialeu was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 29. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
The terraces2 Nov 2026
Gazelle Garoua supporters have found a favourite in Eden Creol
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Eden Creol has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Marcel Djialeu 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Gazelle Garoua
Jordy Doumbe Youmba and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match31 Oct 2026
Gazelle Garoua and PWD Bamenda take a point apiece
It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Djakao Barka named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Djakao Barka is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Housseini Ousmanou 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.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Maxime Embolo on the point
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Maxime Embolo after the 2‑2 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
In brief
- Squad Abiola Dauda watches a signing take the shirt he was promised
- The dugout Somebody else is better right now than Ange Constant Kenfack
- The dugout Junior Leboum Meli does not fit this one