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16 Edition

The Stars Jeunes Talents Gazette

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Ezechiel Doungous damages knee ligaments — 34 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 34 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

38 days out for Abdramane Abba after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Stars Jeunes Talents will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Squad

Abdramane Abba 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 Stars Jeunes Talents this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Idriss Hissein 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

Brahim Ndoram has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Stars Jeunes Talents will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Market

The Brahim Ndoram story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Brahim Ndoram signs something — a contract at Stars Jeunes Talents or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

In brief

  • Looking ahead Looking ahead: the trip to AS PSI
  • The dugout Adam Hissein keeps his manager's vote
Back issues
14 Edition

The Stars Jeunes Talents Gazette

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Abdramane Abba breaks a bone — 52 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 52 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Brahim Ndoram

Successful dribbles: 33. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings

A brace, and Ezechiel Doungous takes the afternoon — 8.76

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Ezechiel Doungous provided it, and the 8.76 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Boardroom

The Stars Jeunes Talents board want somebody sold

The instruction has come from upstairs rather than from the dugout, which is the version of this conversation no manager enjoys. Somebody in that squad is now available whether the man who picks the team thinks so or not.

The terraces

One of their own: Adam Hissein

He is 21 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.

Match

Stars Jeunes Talents get the job done against CotonTchad

A 2‑0 win over CotonTchad, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Match

CotonTchad blown away early

There is a particular helplessness in conceding 2 times before the twentieth minute. CotonTchad tried to reorganise, Stars Jeunes Talents did not allow it, and the result was written long before it was confirmed.

Squad

Oumar Abba named in the team of the month

A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Oumar Abba is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Abdoulaye Haroun, on a 2‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.

In brief

9 Edition

The Stars Jeunes Talents Gazette

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

87 days out for Abdramane Abba after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Stars Jeunes Talents will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market

Only the photograph left for Adam Mahamat

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Adam Mahamat will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Stars Jeunes Talents the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Boardroom

Stars Jeunes Talents to lose Adam Mahamat for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Adam Mahamat has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

Squad

A falling-out at Stars Jeunes Talents

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

Squad

A row about effort at Stars Jeunes Talents

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Idriss Hissein was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

No hiding place for Adam Mahamat

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Adam Mahamat, and the manager let it.

In brief

8 Edition

The Stars Jeunes Talents Gazette

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

94 days out for Abdramane Abba after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Stars Jeunes Talents will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Squad

Abdramane Abba 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 Stars Jeunes Talents this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

Adam Mahamat 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

2 Edition

The Stars Jeunes Talents Gazette

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Brahim Ndoram signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Brahim Ndoram commits to Stars Jeunes Talents for another 3 years.

Squad

A falling-out at Stars Jeunes Talents

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

Transfer targets

Door shut on Bicto Tyonga

Stars Jeunes Talents asked and Foullah Edifice said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Words at Stars Jeunes Talents training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mahamat 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.

The dugout

Brahim Ndoram 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 Brahim Ndoram trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market

The Abdoulaye Mbaiguedem question follows Stars Jeunes Talents around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Abdoulaye Mbaiguedem’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief