Marked for Oumar Moustapha
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market14 Sep 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 US Moursal can pretend not to have heard.
Market14 Sep 2026
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. AS DGSSIE moved on, Oumar Moustapha reports back to US Moursal, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
Market14 Sep 2026
The offer from Galactik for Adam Oumar 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Oumar Adoum is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Hassan Abakar has improved at 28, 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Oumar Doungous 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.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market7 Sep 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Mahamat Youssouf reports back to US Moursal with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Brahim Ndoram is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad7 Sep 2026
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.
The terraces7 Sep 2026
Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Oumar Adoum from Stars Jeunes Talents for $7.0K, and a ticket office having a very good morning.
Squad7 Sep 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market24 Aug 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.
Squad24 Aug 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 US Moursal this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market24 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. US Moursal have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at US Moursal training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Oumar Doungous 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The medical room confirms 29 days on the sidelines for Mahamat Youssouf, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“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.