The AS Etat Major Post
Boardroom2 Aug 2027
Ezechiel Ndoram has until the next board meeting
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at AS Etat Major can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Narcisse Tokindang breaks a bone — 25 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 25 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Boardroom2 Aug 2027
The AS Etat Major board call everybody in
Nothing has been announced and everybody understands what it means. A board that summons the whole football department on a Tuesday morning is a board that has stopped believing the problem will fix itself.
Market2 Aug 2027
Abdramane Hissein asks to leave AS Etat Major
“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.
Squad2 Aug 2027
A falling-out at AS Etat Major
Aziz Sabiri and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets2 Aug 2027
AS Etat Major rebuffed over Narcisse Mahamat
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. AS PSI have kept their man, and AS Etat Major go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad2 Aug 2027
A row about effort at AS Etat Major
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Yassine Mazraoui was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Too much change too quickly at AS Etat Major
6 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout2 Aug 2027
Ali Tokindang 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.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Mahamat Bechir
- Market The Yassine Mazraoui story refuses to die
- The dugout The manager's exit leaves Saleh Oumar exposed