Dylan Kouam Mbappe

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Unisport Bafang
18 Aug 2030
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The Unisport Bafang Post

17 Sep 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Kelechi Chimezie breaks a bone — 40 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 40 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

7 matches without a win for Unisport Bafang

The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Unisport Bafang are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Kelechi Chimezie 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 Unisport Bafang this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

A bad afternoon for Unisport Bafang against Aigle Royal de la Menoua

1‑2 to Aigle Royal de la Menoua, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Words at Unisport Bafang training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Franck Tientcheu 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.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Serge Andoulo

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Haruna Abubakar

Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings

The chances came and went for Sibongakonke Nkosi

9 shots, and a count that reads like a good afternoon until you check the other column. Strikers survive weeks like this on the understanding that the chances keep arriving; the day they stop is the day it becomes a problem.

Market

The Pierre Akono story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Pierre Akono signs something — a contract at Unisport Bafang or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

In brief

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4 Dec 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Armel Djimmoe puts it in writing

“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 Unisport Bafang, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings

Chamseddine Derradji, 36, rolls back the years — 8.48

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.48 at 36, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Squad

Welligton signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Welligton and Unisport Bafang agree another 2 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Unisport Bafang

Welligton 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.

Match

Unisport Bafang find a way past Stade Renard de Melong

Stade Renard de Melong made Unisport Bafang work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Wandile Ndisile

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Haruna Abubakar at his very best

Marked 8.12. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Unisport Bafang.

Boardroom

Unisport Bafang release $3.1M for the manager

The board have put money on the table rather than an encouraging word. What happens to it now is somebody else's problem, and somebody else's job.

Squad

Achille Fokem 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.

In brief