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30 Oct 2027
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Marked for Saleh Oumar

53 Edition

The AS Etat Major Post

2 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom

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.

Squad

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.

Boardroom

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.

Market

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.

Squad

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 targets

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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 dugout

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

Back issues
43 Edition

The AS Etat Major Post

24 May 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces

Supporters organise against the AS Etat Major board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Squad

The knee: Abdramane Doungous out for 25 days

25 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. AS Etat Major lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Boardroom

The silence upstairs is getting loud at AS Etat Major

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Squad

A falling-out at AS Etat Major

Hassan Allamine and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Omar Hakimi 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.

The dugout

Bicto Tyonga gets it from the manager

“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 dugout

Saleh Adoum knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at AS Etat Major, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market

The Hassan Allamine story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Hassan Allamine signs something — a contract at AS Etat Major or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

Market

The clock does Ali Ndoram’s negotiating for him

2 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee AS Etat Major could ask drops and the wages Ali Ndoram can ask rise.

In brief

11 Edition

The AS Etat Major Post

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Bicto Tyonga 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 AS Etat Major this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Loan watch

Mahamat Mbaiguedem has seen enough of Gazelle

“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 AS Etat Major, and 0 appearances in 6 say he has earned the hearing.

Market

Still no ink between AS Etat Major and Saleh Oumar

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at AS Etat Major, another week without a signature from Saleh Oumar.

Looking ahead

AS Etat Major take on the side everybody is chasing

Renaissance arrive as leaders. A side at the top is beaten roughly once a month, and the club that does it gets a week it remembers for a year.

Market

The Ahmat Ndoram talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. AS Etat Major know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

The dugout

Brahim Mbainaissem knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at AS Etat Major, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief