Words at PWD Bamenda training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Franck Kom 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.
The name of Kadad Ning Che has come up in conversations PWD Bamenda were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. PWD Bamenda will quote 14 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Patrick Clovert 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.
Kano Pillars 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.
“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 The request is on a desk at PWD Bamenda, and it is not being withdrawn.
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Franck Kom 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.
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation PWD Bamenda are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
Patrick Clovert 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.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Barau have kept their man, and PWD Bamenda go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Signings arrive with a picture of the club in their head, and this one’s picture was bigger than the building. He will play well and he will be gone, in that order, and everybody knows it.
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. PWD Bamenda know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at PWD Bamenda this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
A loan enquiry to Gazelle Garoua: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
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.