Adam Bechir

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16 Edition

The AS Algoy Herald

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Adam Souleymane damages knee ligaments — 52 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 52 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.

Market

Adam Djimet hands in a written request

“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.

Squad

A falling-out at AS Algoy

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

Squad

Ezechiel Mbainaissem 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.

Squad

AS Algoy lose Marius Souleymane

27 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

The dugout

No hiding place for German Fankam Tala

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

Loan watch

Adam Bechir wants to come home

“I did not go to CotonTchad to sit and watch. I want to come back to AS Algoy and fight for my place.” 3 appearances in 14 matches say the rest.

The dugout

Ezechiel Mbainaissem 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 dugout

Issa Abba 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 Issa Abba is on it.

In brief

Back issues
12 Edition

The CotonTchad Chronicle

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Mahamat Adda out for 92 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason CotonTchad will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Player ratings

Léger Djimrangar, 34, rolls back the years — 7.89

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.89 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Player ratings

A goal and an assist for Zakaria Hadraf — 7.73

Involvement in 2 goals, from a player who spent the ninety minutes doing the thing a manager actually wants: being where the ball was going to end up. 7.73 beside his name.

Squad

Zaid Karouch is not the player he was

It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 35 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.

Player ratings

Chouaib El Maftoul beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 17. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

CotonTchad are still strangers to each other

12 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

Match

Léger Djimrangar rescues a point for CotonTchad

It needed Léger Djimrangar to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against US Moursal, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Ahmat Moustapha was not hiding it after 2‑2, and nobody in the CotonTchad dressing room was either.

Squad

Zakaria Hadraf scores his first for CotonTchad

The one goal every signing is asked about until it comes. It has come, and a press-conference question has been retired.

In brief

7 Edition

The AS Algoy Herald

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Adam Souleymane out for 115 days

115 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. AS Algoy lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market

Adam Djimet asks to leave AS Algoy

“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.

Squad

Words at AS Algoy training over how hard people work

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

Squad

Abdramane Abakar stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Abdramane Abakar and AS Algoy agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Loan watch

Adam Bechir counts the days

“I watch every AS Algoy game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at CotonTchad runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

The dugout

Abdramane Abakar 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 Abdramane Abakar trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

1 Edition

The CotonTchad Chronicle

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Esaie Djikoloum signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Esaie Djikoloum commits to CotonTchad for another 1 years.

Squad

Words exchanged at CotonTchad

Zaid Karouch 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.

Squad

The formation has left Hicham Nouali behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. CotonTchad will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

Squad

This league is too small for Zaid Karouch

He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. CotonTchad will not keep him by pretending otherwise.

Market

Still no ink between CotonTchad and Mahamat Adda

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at CotonTchad, another week without a signature from Mahamat Adda.

Transfer targets

CotonTchad try to borrow Adam Bechir

AS Algoy 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.

In brief