Marked for Moussa Ndoram
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad27 Sep 2027
35 days out for Noël Allaramadji after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. AS PSI will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match27 Sep 2027
Nobody above AS PSI
First, on 61 points. The table is a fact and a fact is allowed to be enjoyed, which is as far as anybody at the club is prepared to go in public.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Bark Abdramane is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 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.
Market27 Sep 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at AS PSI is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad27 Sep 2027
At 25 the improving is meant to be over, and it is not: 5 points better than a year ago. It happens to the ones who take the boring parts seriously.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Words at AS PSI training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Brahim Goudja 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 dugout27 Sep 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Moussa Ndoram, and the manager let it.
The dugout27 Sep 2027
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 Nassar Koulelengar is on it.
The dugout27 Sep 2027
Brahim Goudja 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.
Back issues
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Transfer targets26 Jul 2027
The deal with Renaissance 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.
The dugout26 Jul 2027
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Market26 Jul 2027
Moussa Ndoram has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around AS PSI they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Transfer targets26 Jul 2027
$27.0K on the table at CotonTchad. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Squad26 Jul 2027
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.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Words at AS PSI training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. a squad player 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 dugout26 Jul 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Moussa Ndoram, and the manager let it.
The dugout26 Jul 2027
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. AS PSI told a squad player something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
The dugout26 Jul 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Boardroom5 Jul 2027
This is the season the town will measure the next twenty against. The trophy travels home with the squad, and the route through the streets was agreed days ago.
Match5 Jul 2027
61 points and nobody above them. The word is not being said around the ground yet, and it is being thought in every seat.
Market5 Jul 2027
AS PSI say no — this time
The offer from Etoiles du Mande for Nassar Koulelengar 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.
Squad5 Jul 2027
An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and AS PSI have had the benefit of it.
Transfer targets5 Jul 2027
Everything agreed with Stars Jeunes Talents, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Transfer targets5 Jul 2027
AS PSI have gone to AS Algoy 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.
Transfer targets5 Jul 2027
AS PSI asked and AS Algoy said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Words at AS PSI training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Moussa Ndoram 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.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Words exchanged at AS PSI
Moussa Allamine 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.
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Market28 Jun 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
The dugout28 Jun 2027
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Market28 Jun 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at AS PSI is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad28 Jun 2027
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.
Transfer targets28 Jun 2027
AS PSI asked and AS Algoy said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The dugout28 Jun 2027
The manager makes an example of Moussa 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 dugout28 Jun 2027
Gabkala Daba 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 Gabkala Daba is on it.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Words at AS PSI training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Francis Kudus 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 dugout28 Jun 2027
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.
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Upbeat
Squad21 Jun 2027
A falling-out at AS PSI
Nassar Koulelengar and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets21 Jun 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. AS Etat Major have kept their man, and AS PSI go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Words at AS PSI training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Brahim Goudja 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.
Market21 Jun 2027
Signings arrive with a picture of the club in their head, and this one’s picture was bigger than the building. He will play well and he will be gone, in that order, and everybody knows it.
Market21 Jun 2027
He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
The dugout21 Jun 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout21 Jun 2027
Moussa Ndoram 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 Moussa Ndoram trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market21 Jun 2027
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Ali Issa Blagué signs something — a contract at AS PSI or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Wages are the subject a dressing room never discusses and always knows. Everybody at AS PSI has now done the sum, and nobody is saying it out loud.
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The dugout3 May 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
The dugout3 May 2027
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Market3 May 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at AS PSI is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad3 May 2027
Words exchanged at AS PSI
Nassar Koulelengar 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.
Squad3 May 2027
Brahim Goudja 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.
Boardroom3 May 2027
$17.9K on the table at AS PSI
The board have answered with money instead of encouragement, which is the only answer a manager ever wants. Spending it well is now entirely his problem.
The dugout3 May 2027
Gabkala Daba 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 Gabkala Daba is on it.
The dugout3 May 2027
Moussa Ndoram 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.
Market3 May 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Nassar Koulelengar’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Upbeat
Squad26 Apr 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 18 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad26 Apr 2027
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 dugout26 Apr 2027
Brahim Goudja 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 Brahim Goudja is on it.
The dugout26 Apr 2027
Brahim Goudja 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 Brahim Goudja trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout26 Apr 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Oumar Abakar, and the manager let it.
Market26 Apr 2027
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Ali Issa Blagué signs something — a contract at AS PSI or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Upbeat
Squad15 Mar 2027
A fracture rules Fabrice Djimhoué out for 60 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason AS PSI will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match15 Mar 2027
Nobody above AS PSI
First, on 58 points. The table is a fact and a fact is allowed to be enjoyed, which is as far as anybody at the club is prepared to go in public.
Squad15 Mar 2027
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 dugout15 Mar 2027
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 Nassar Koulelengar is on it.
The dugout15 Mar 2027
“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.
Looking ahead15 Mar 2027
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against AS Algoy in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Market15 Mar 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Brahim Goudja’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout15 Mar 2027
Moussa Ndoram 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.
Squad15 Mar 2027
A season on the outside for Ali Bechir
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at AS PSI has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
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Upbeat
Squad1 Feb 2027
102 days out for Fabrice Djimhoué after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. AS PSI will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match30 Jan 2027
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 4‑1 against US Moursal, and it could have been more.
Player ratings1 Feb 2027
Two goals and a mark of 8.36 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Boardroom1 Feb 2027
AS PSI close the window on a squad of their own making
3 in and 0 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
A season average of 7.38 with 16 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Match30 Jan 2027
AS PSI make home a hard place to visit
10 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Squad1 Feb 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 AS PSI this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
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 terraces1 Feb 2027
At 21 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.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market18 Jan 2027
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. AS Etat Major have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market18 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 AS Etat Major can pretend not to have heard.
Squad18 Jan 2027
A season average of 7.12 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. AS Etat Major know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.
Market18 Jan 2027
The phone has started ringing about Marius Abba again, and this time the name on the line is Binga. AS Etat Major are listening politely and promising nothing.
Market18 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Words at AS Etat Major training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Moussa Allamine 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Ahmat 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.
Loan watch18 Jan 2027
“I watch every AS Etat Major game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Foullah Edifice runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Djibrine Tokindang, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match16 Jan 2027
Still nobody has beaten AS PSI
The unbeaten run reaches 16. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Match18 Jan 2027
The view from the top for AS PSI
37 points, and the rest of the division looking up. Every side that finishes first spends the season pretending it is not thinking about it, and this one has started pretending.
Market18 Jan 2027
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. AS PSI have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad18 Jan 2027
A season average of 7.38 with 15 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
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.
Market18 Jan 2027
The fee is $24.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. US Moursal drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Match16 Jan 2027
AS PSI make home a hard place to visit
9 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. AS Etat Major have kept their man, and AS PSI go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
In brief
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Squad
Words exchanged at AS PSI
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Squad
Fabrice Djimhoué falls out with a teammate over standards
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Match
After 4 games, AS PSI finally taste it again
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 33. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.20 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ahmat Ngaradoumbe and AS Etat Major agree another 2 years.
Squad7 Dec 2026
13 goals and a season average of 7.35. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
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 Etat Major this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Moussa Allamine was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market7 Dec 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Saleh Abba 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.
Market7 Dec 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ezechiel Tokindang 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.
Market7 Dec 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Issa Ndoram 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.
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Steady
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.16, and nobody on the pitch better.
Market23 Nov 2026
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 AS Etat Major can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Moussa Allamine 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words at AS Etat Major training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Moussa Adoum 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 dugout23 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A season average of 7.21 with 10 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Loan watch23 Nov 2026
“I did not go to Foullah Edifice to sit and watch. I want to come back to AS Etat Major and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 13 matches say the rest.
Match21 Nov 2026
It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
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Steady
Match4 Nov 2026
AS PSI go through and AS Etat Major go home, 1‑4 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Market9 Nov 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.
The terraces9 Nov 2026
1-4. Going out of a cup is one afternoon; going out like that is a week of phone-ins, and the manager will hear every one of them.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Marked 7.73 at 16, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Moussa Allamine and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Loan watch9 Nov 2026
“I watch every AS Etat Major game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Foullah Edifice runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Djibrine Tokindang was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Triumph
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Brahim Ndoram, 33, rolls back the years — 8.41
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.41 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Market12 Oct 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Moussa Allamine is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
At 28 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Moussa Adoum was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match10 Oct 2026
A 2‑0 win over Renaissance, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Loan watch12 Oct 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at AS Etat Major, and 0 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 2‑0, Issa Ngaradoumbe could afford to be generous.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 13. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
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Steady
Market14 Sep 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 AS Etat Major, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market14 Sep 2026
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Moussa Adoum reports back to AS Etat Major with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Squad14 Sep 2026
At 19 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Marius Abba 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.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
$1.0K was the most the club would pay and Stars Jeunes Talents 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at AS Etat Major training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Moussa Adoum 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Brahim Djimet and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market14 Sep 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Mahamat Bechir 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
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Adam Mahamat is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
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Steady
Market7 Sep 2026
Moussa 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 AS Etat Major can pretend not to have heard.
Market7 Sep 2026
Aiglons come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and AS Etat Major did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Deadline passes with 10 signed and 8 gone
That is the business done at AS Etat Major until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
AS Etat Major have gone to Stars Jeunes Talents 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. AS Etat Major will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Djibrine Adoum 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Marius Tokindang is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Saleh Haroun 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Nothing is announced when this happens and everybody knows. He is a bigger part of the plan at AS Etat Major than he was a month ago, and the training ground worked that out before the team sheet said so.
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Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
Marius 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 AS Etat Major can pretend not to have heard.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Moussa Allamine and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets17 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at AS Etat Major training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. a squad player 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Renaissance 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ezechiel Abba commits to AS Etat Major for another 3 years.
Market17 Aug 2026
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at AS Etat Major has been clear about where Moussa Ngaradoumbe stands, which is more than many ever get.
Market17 Aug 2026
AS Etat Major have let the market know Moussa Ndoram can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
Ezechiel Abba 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.