Marked for Narcisse Mahamat
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad28 Dec 2026
Narcisse Mahamat damages knee ligaments — 16 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 16 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.
Market28 Dec 2026
“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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Bark Abdramane is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
A falling-out at AS PSI
Brahim Goudja and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
Wages swallow 107% of the AS PSI income
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
Félix Noubara has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at AS PSI 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.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Abdoulaye Abakar, and the manager let it.
Looking ahead28 Dec 2026
AS Algoy next, and one man in the AS PSI dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
Market28 Dec 2026
The name of Fabrice Djimhoué keeps appearing in other people's back pages. AS PSI say nothing, which says plenty.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Squad21 Dec 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Narcisse Mahamat
23 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. AS PSI lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at AS PSI
Brahim Goudja and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Issa Malloum Issa 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 dugout21 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ezechiel Mbaiguedem, and the manager let it.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Brahim Goudja has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at AS PSI 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.
Match19 Dec 2026
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Renaissance came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
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Steady
Squad14 Dec 2026
Narcisse Mahamat damages knee ligaments — 30 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 30 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.
Match12 Dec 2026
Some goals win a match and some take one off somebody else. Mahamat Adam Ali scored in the 88th minute, AS DGSSIE had already begun thinking about the journey home, and AS PSI took the lot.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match12 Dec 2026
It finished 2‑1, and it was Mahamat Adam Ali’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to AS PSI.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Tempers go at AS PSI
Brahim Goudja 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.
The terraces14 Dec 2026
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Market14 Dec 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Abdramane Oumar is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.53, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.38, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
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Crisis
Squad7 Dec 2026
37 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. AS PSI lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match5 Dec 2026
4 matches without a win for AS PSI
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around AS PSI are no longer polite ones.
Match5 Dec 2026
CotonTchad left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad7 Dec 2026
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 PSI this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Ezechiel Mbaiguedem
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Ezechiel Mbaiguedem has come out of that comparison in the side, and AS PSI have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 13. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
Bark Abdramane 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.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
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Crisis
Squad30 Nov 2026
Narcisse Mahamat damages knee ligaments — 44 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 44 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at AS PSI
Ezechiel Mbaiguedem and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match28 Nov 2026
Galactik left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
105% of the income goes out in wages at AS PSI
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑2 Moussa Ndoram left the room before anybody could ask which.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A row about effort at AS PSI
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Issa Malloum Issa was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Bark Abdramane
“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.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Adam Bechir gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Adam Bechir is on it.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 11. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
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Steady
Squad23 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Narcisse Mahamat
51 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. AS PSI lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match21 Nov 2026
Stars Jeunes Talents left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at AS PSI
Brahim Goudja and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑3 defeat, delivered by Moussa Ndoram to a room that had heard them before.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A row about effort at AS PSI
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Abdoulaye Abakar was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Shots: 7, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Félix Noubara gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Félix Noubara is on it.
Market23 Nov 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Ali Issa Blagué’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
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Upbeat
Squad16 Nov 2026
Narcisse Mahamat damages knee ligaments — 58 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 58 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
Tempers go at AS PSI
Brahim Goudja 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.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Brahim Goudja has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at AS PSI 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.
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Upbeat
Squad9 Nov 2026
Narcisse Mahamat damages knee ligaments — 65 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 65 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.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
A debut Ali Moustapha will not forget — 8.31
There is exactly one of these per career and it does not usually go like this. 1 on the scoresheet, 8.31 beside the name, and a crowd that had never seen him before chanting it by the end.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.32, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The terraces9 Nov 2026
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Market9 Nov 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Saleh Ngaradoumbe has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Marked 8.04 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad9 Nov 2026
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 PSI this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Triumph
Squad2 Nov 2026
Narcisse Mahamat damages knee ligaments — 72 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 72 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Abdoulaye Abakar: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” AS PSI have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
AS PSI told to sell
The instruction came from the boardroom and the dugout did not agree with it. Somebody will go, the fee will be called good business, and the manager will spend the season rebuilding around the space.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Mahamat Adam Ali was on a different afternoon to everybody else
9.95. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Match31 Oct 2026
It finished 3‑1, and it was Mahamat Adam Ali’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to AS PSI.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A falling-out at AS PSI
Brahim Goudja and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout2 Nov 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.
In brief
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Boardroom
105% of the income goes out in wages at AS PSI
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Squad
Mahamat Adam Ali named player of the month
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad26 Oct 2026
79 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. AS PSI lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” AS PSI may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Match24 Oct 2026
Elect Sport left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Tempers go at AS PSI
Narcisse Mahamat 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.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Moussa Ndoram after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Somebody watched every match in the division at the weekend and decided he was the best thing in any of them. A small honour, and most careers end without one.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A first team debut at 14 for Issa Ndoram
Off the academy pitches and into a senior shirt, at 14. The parents in the stand will keep the programme, and so will he.
Market26 Oct 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Ali Issa Blagué’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Triumph
Squad19 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Narcisse Mahamat
86 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. AS PSI lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Two goals and a mark of 9.41 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Match17 Oct 2026
It finished 3‑1, and it was Mahamat Adam Ali’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to AS PSI.
The terraces19 Oct 2026
At 17 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Squad19 Oct 2026
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 PSI this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match17 Oct 2026
There is a particular helplessness in conceding 2 times before the twentieth minute. Foullah Edifice tried to reorganise, AS PSI did not allow it, and the result was written long before it was confirmed.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Issa Malloum Issa was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.25. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Loan watch19 Oct 2026
“I did not go to US Moursal to sit and watch. I want to come back to AS PSI and fight for my place.” 2 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
In brief
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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Squad
Words at AS PSI training over how hard people work
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Squad
The division's best last weekend was a AS PSI man
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad12 Oct 2026
93 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. AS PSI lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad12 Oct 2026
At 20 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Tempers go at AS PSI
Ezechiel Mbaiguedem 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at AS PSI training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abdoulaye Abakar 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 dugout12 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Issa Ndoram
“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.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Adam Bechir 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 PSI, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Steady
Market14 Sep 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Abdoulaye Abakar is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market14 Sep 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Brahim Haroun has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A falling-out at AS PSI
Narcisse Mahamat and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
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Steady
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
AS PSI close the window on a squad of their own making
15 in and 2 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
$28.0K was the most the club would pay and AS Algoy were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. US Moursal have kept their man, and AS PSI go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
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 PSI this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. AS PSI will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at AS PSI training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Issa Malloum Issa 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.
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Steady
Market31 Aug 2026
AS PSI arrived with $37.0K and left with the best player in the building. The board will call it business; the queue at the ticket office will use other words.
Market31 Aug 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what AS Algoy can pretend not to have heard.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
Narcisse Mahamat has gone, the accounts have $37.0K in them, and the supporters have the feeling of having been sold something themselves. Good business and a good decision are not always the same thing.
Market31 Aug 2026
AS DGSSIE come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and AS Algoy did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market31 Aug 2026
AS Algoy spend $3.0K to raise the standard
This is not cover and nobody is pretending it is. $3.0K has been paid because Djibrine Djimet is straightforwardly better than what was already here, and the club has decided to stop waiting.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
$15.0K was the most the club would pay and US Moursal were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
AS Algoy spend $3.0K on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $3.0K for Djibrine Djimet, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. AS Etat Major have kept their man, and AS Algoy go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A row about effort at AS Algoy
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Narcisse Bechir was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Steady
Market31 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
AS PSI had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at US Moursal, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Market31 Aug 2026
AS PSI get their man
The chase for Narcisse Mahamat ended with $37.0K changing hands and AS Algoy out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. AS Algoy have kept their man, and AS PSI go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at AS PSI
Brahim Goudja and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Market31 Aug 2026
He signed expecting a bigger stage than the one he found. It has not taken long, and it has not taken the dressing room long to notice either.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A row about effort at AS PSI
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Abdoulaye Abakar was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. AS PSI will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
The dugout31 Aug 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.