Marked for Mahamat Ndoram
From our football correspondent
Steady
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 19 in, 0 out at Galactik
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 19 arrived, 0 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Lionel Samba and Galactik agree another 2 years.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Galactik have gone to Wadi Degla 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Galactik
Patrick Doukaga and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. AS Etat Major have kept their man, and Galactik go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The formation has left Lionel Samba behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Galactik will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
Market7 Sep 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Not a new contract, not a new number: a new place in the manager’s thinking, which is the only promotion in football that actually matters. Mahamat Ndoram has moved up it.
Market7 Sep 2026
No fee and no drama: Lionel Samba has signed at Galactik, and the wage bill is the only line that moved.
Back issues
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Steady
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
The deal with AS Etat Major is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Ousmane Biani 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 targets31 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
Every supporter in the ground could have named the hole in this team, and most of them did, loudly, for months. Mahamat Ndoram has been signed to close it.
Squad31 Aug 2026
No place for Mahamat Ndoram in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Galactik are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
Squad31 Aug 2026
5 new faces, and Galactik are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
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Steady
Market24 Aug 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
17 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Market24 Aug 2026
AS Etat Major spend $44.0K to raise the standard
This is not cover and nobody is pretending it is. $44.0K has been paid because Adam Mbainaissem is straightforwardly better than what was already here, and the club has decided to stop waiting.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Ali Adoum 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.
Transfer targets24 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 dugout24 Aug 2026
Moussa Adoum 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at AS Etat Major training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Idriss Oumar 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. AS Etat Major will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
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Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The clubs have shaken hands with AS Etat Major; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Market24 Aug 2026
Galactik say no — this time
The offer from US Bougouba for Youssouf Abdraman was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Transfer targets24 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.