Marked for Marius Mbaiguedem
From our football correspondent
Steady
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 39. 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Marked 7.81 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Squad28 Dec 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at US Moursal this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces28 Dec 2026
At 20 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match26 Dec 2026
Three points for US Moursal, 1‑0 the final word against Aiglons in a contest settled by the finer margins.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Narcisse Hissein could afford to be generous.
The dugout28 Dec 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
One yellow too many, and a match watched from the stand. The most avoidable absence in football, and US Moursal will feel it on Saturday.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Market21 Dec 2026
“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 The request is on a desk at US Moursal, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Hassan Tokindang, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.65
A mark of 7.65 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Match19 Dec 2026
8 matches without a win, and then this, against AS Etat Major. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.
The terraces21 Dec 2026
He is 18 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Match19 Dec 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Hassan Tokindang’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to US Moursal.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Noël Allaramadji, and the manager let it.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Oumar Youssouf 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Marius Mbaiguedem 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.
Loan watch21 Dec 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at US Moursal, and 0 appearances in 19 say he has earned the hearing.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match12 Dec 2026
No end in sight to US Moursal's wait for a win
8 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at US Moursal has to find a result from somewhere.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Loan watch14 Dec 2026
“I did not go to AS PSI to sit and watch. I want to come back to US Moursal and fight for my place.” 2 appearances in 15 matches say the rest.
Squad14 Dec 2026
A row about effort at US Moursal
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Oumar Youssouf was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match12 Dec 2026
A point taken on 91 minutes is worth exactly one point and considerably more than that to a dressing room. This side does not stop, which is a reputation worth more than the result.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Marius Mbaiguedem 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.
Match12 Dec 2026
It needed Marius Mbaiguedem to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against AS Algoy, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Narcisse Hissein was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the US Moursal dressing room was either.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Noël Allaramadji asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Steady
Market2 Nov 2026
Saleh Hissein hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what US Moursal can pretend not to have heard.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Narcisse Allamine commits to US Moursal for another 3 years.
The terraces2 Nov 2026
At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Noël Allaramadji, and the manager let it.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at US Moursal training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Moussa Moustapha 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
The young player of the month award goes to a 19-year-old at US Moursal who has looked like the finished article for four weekends running. The next four are the ones that decide whether he is.
Squad2 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at US Moursal this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Marked 7.30. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market26 Oct 2026
“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 US Moursal, and it is not being withdrawn.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” US Moursal may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Marked 7.76 at 19, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
The terraces26 Oct 2026
At 19 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Marius Mbaiguedem 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.
Loan watch26 Oct 2026
Issa Abba wants to come home
“I did not go to AS Etat Major to sit and watch. I want to come back to US Moursal and fight for my place.” 2 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. 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.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
A defender's afternoon for Ali Abakar
Defensive actions: 15. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match17 Oct 2026
2 goals to the good, and then a slow surrender of everything that had been earned. Marius Mbaiguedem will not be the one blamed for it, but nobody at US Moursal escapes the conversation that follows a collapse like this.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Marked 7.79 at 18, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Oumar Moustapha 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.
The terraces19 Oct 2026
He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Squad19 Oct 2026
It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 34 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A row about effort at US Moursal
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Moussa Moustapha was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
The afternoon belonged to Issa Hissein
A mark of 7.97, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Loan watch19 Oct 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at US Moursal, and 0 appearances in 10 say he has earned the hearing.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market14 Sep 2026
“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 US Moursal, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market14 Sep 2026
The deal that would have taken Ali Abakar to Galactik has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to US Moursal with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Marius Mbaiguedem and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Saleh Oumar and US Moursal agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
“I did not go to Foullah Edifice to sit and watch. I want to come back to US Moursal and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The formation has left Ahmat Haroun behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. US Moursal will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market7 Sep 2026
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Aiglons waiting with a shirt. Nobody at US Moursal is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market7 Sep 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
So close: Issa Hissein’s move dies late
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Galactik moved on, Issa Hissein reports back to US Moursal, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
US Moursal close the window on a squad of their own making
4 in and 10 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. US Moursal will try again when the window opens; AS Etat Major may not be selling by then.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at US Moursal training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Moussa Moustapha 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 dugout7 Sep 2026
“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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at US Moursal this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market31 Aug 2026
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around US Moursal people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market31 Aug 2026
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Oumar Moustapha had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
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
The offer from AS PSI for Saleh Hissein was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
The deal with AS Etat Major is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Oumar Moustapha 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.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
A loan move for Ahmat Haroun is in the works
US Moursal have made the call to AS Etat Major. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
Squad31 Aug 2026
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at US Moursal has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market24 Aug 2026
Issa Hissein hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what US Moursal can pretend not to have heard.
Market24 Aug 2026
The bid was some way short and US Moursal did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market24 Aug 2026
The name of Issa Hissein has come up in conversations US Moursal were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $45.6K — a club that wants Abdramane Hissein enough to be asked twice.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
US Moursal have gone to AS Etat Major with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. AS Algoy have kept their man, and US Moursal go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Ali Abakar and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Oumar Youssouf
“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.
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Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ahmat Ndoram and AS Etat Major agree another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Hassan Allamine 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. AS Etat Major will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
$15.0K was the most the club would pay and US Moursal were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ahmat Haroun was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Foullah Edifice 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to US Moursal: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
Ahmat Ndoram asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.