Marked for Djibrine Moustapha
From our football correspondent
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Player ratings11 Jan 2027
A defender's goal wins it for AS Etat Major — 7.55
1 for Issa Youssouf, marked 7.55, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Match9 Jan 2027
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 8 matches without defeat is a foundation AS Etat Major did not have in the autumn.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Hassan Oumar is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 18 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.
Match9 Jan 2027
6 matches without defeat, and then AS PSI. Nobody at the ground pretended it would go on forever; nobody expected it to stop here either.
Loan watch11 Jan 2027
“I did not go to Foullah Edifice to sit and watch. I want to come back to AS Etat Major and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 21 matches say the rest.
Squad11 Jan 2027
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.
Match9 Jan 2027
Level with 86 minutes on the clock, after an afternoon AS Etat Major had all but put away. AS PSI will call it a point earned; the home dressing room will call it two given away, and both of them are right.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Abdramane Mbainaissem was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match9 Jan 2027
A 1‑1 draw with AS PSI leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Back issues
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Steady
Squad28 Sep 2026
27 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
a squad player and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Ahmat Haroun 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at AS Etat Major training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abdramane Mbainaissem 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.
Loan watch28 Sep 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 AS Etat Major, and 0 appearances in 7 say he has earned the hearing.
Market28 Sep 2026
AS Etat Major have let the market know Issa Youssouf can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
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Steady
Market14 Sep 2026
The Aiglons deal is off
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Djibrine Moustapha reports back to AS Etat Major with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Abdramane Mbainaissem was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout14 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.
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Steady
Market24 Aug 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 AS Etat Major, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market24 Aug 2026
AS DGSSIE come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and AS Etat Major did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $51.8K — a club that wants Issa Adoum enough to be asked twice.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
An offer of $49.0K for Issa Adoum
AS Etat Major have gone to AS Algoy 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Simon Ihenacho 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 targets24 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. US Moursal have kept their man, and AS Etat Major go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Abdramane Mbainaissem was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad24 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.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mahamat Doungous, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Market17 Aug 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 AS Etat Major, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad17 Aug 2026
a squad player 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 targets17 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Youssouf Adoum, and the manager let it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at AS Etat Major training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abdramane Mbainaissem 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 targets17 Aug 2026
Renaissance 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Adam Abba and AS Etat Major agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
Adam Abba knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Adam Abba trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.