The Stars Jeunes Talents Gazette
Squad16 Nov 2026
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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
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 dugout16 Nov 2026
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.
Market16 Nov 2026
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