Marked for Raphael Tchaptchet
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 28. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Market26 Oct 2026
David Ngameni has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Unisport Bafang they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Raphael Ayagwa and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Marked 8.25. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Unisport Bafang.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Unisport Bafang training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Junior Rostand M'baï 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 dugout26 Oct 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Karl Ondoa after 1‑3, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“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 dugout26 Oct 2026
Desmond Kameni has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Unisport Bafang will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Back issues
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Upbeat
Market5 Oct 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Unisport Bafang can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Raphael Ayagwa 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
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.
Loan watch5 Oct 2026
“I did not go to Victoria United to sit and watch. I want to come back to Unisport Bafang and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 8 matches say the rest.
Match3 Oct 2026
0‑2 to Cotonsport Garoua, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Unisport Bafang training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Junior Rostand M'baï 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 dugout5 Oct 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑2 defeat, delivered by Karl Ondoa to a room that had heard them before.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Serge Andoulo makes the team of the month
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
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Steady
Market31 Aug 2026
“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.
Market31 Aug 2026
Only the photograph left for David Ngameni
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. David Ngameni will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Unisport Bafang the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Raphael Ayagwa and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Unisport Bafang training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dillon Hoogewerf 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.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Unisport Bafang asked and Stade Malien said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to Fortuna Mfou: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Raphael Tchaptchet, and the manager let it.
Looking ahead31 Aug 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Stade Renard de Melong in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Looking ahead31 Aug 2026
Next up at home: Stade Renard de Melong, who go into it in position 11. The kind of fixture a season is quietly built on or quietly loses its shape in.