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Uneasy
Match20 Jan 2027
The cup run ends for US Moursal
1‑2 against Gazelle, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Market25 Jan 2027
Adam Oumar 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 US Moursal can pretend not to have heard.
Market25 Jan 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Oumar Doungous 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Words at US Moursal training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Behruz Soatov 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Hassan Abakar, and the manager let it.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Loan watch25 Jan 2027
“I watch every US Moursal game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Galactik runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Match23 Jan 2027
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Match16 Jan 2027
There were 89 minutes on the clock and Stars Jeunes Talents had all but banked the point. Football rarely reads the room, and US Moursal did not stop to explain themselves.
Squad18 Jan 2027
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.
The terraces18 Jan 2027
He is going to AS DGSSIE, the club has $6.0K it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.
Market18 Jan 2027
AS Algoy come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and US Moursal did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market18 Jan 2027
Oumar Adoum 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 US Moursal can pretend not to have heard.
Squad18 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at US Moursal this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.23, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Market18 Jan 2027
Ezechiel Djimet has left for Galactik in a $6.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
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Uneasy
Market11 Jan 2027
$38.0K from AS PSI for Ahmat Moustapha. Money is money, but the dressing room has lost the man it looked to.
Market11 Jan 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad11 Jan 2027
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market11 Jan 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what US Moursal can pretend not to have heard.
The terraces11 Jan 2027
US Moursal sell a favourite for $38.0K
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Ahmat Moustapha was one of the reasons people came, and $38.0K does not replace that by itself.
Match9 Jan 2027
No end in sight to US Moursal's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at US Moursal has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Behruz Soatov 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.
Market11 Jan 2027
Marius Doungous has left for Galactik in a $4.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Squad11 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Hassan Tokindang, and the manager let it.
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Crisis
Market19 Oct 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at US Moursal, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Behruz Soatov 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Hassan Tokindang has improved at 31, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Match17 Oct 2026
The goals have deserted US Moursal
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at US Moursal can tell you which week it ends in.
Match17 Oct 2026
Stars Jeunes Talents left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Youssouf 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.
Loan watch19 Oct 2026
“I watch every US Moursal game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at AS DGSSIE runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.