Marked for Brahim Tokindang
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market11 Jan 2027
AS Algoy say no — this time
The offer from Foullah Edifice for Oumar Mbainaissem 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.
Market11 Jan 2027
“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.
Market11 Jan 2027
The name of Issa Bechir has come up in conversations AS Algoy were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Oumar Mbainaissem 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
Brahim Tokindang has left for Galactik in a $5.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Idriss Djimet 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.
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Crisis
Market11 Jan 2027
“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 The request is on a desk at Galactik, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market11 Jan 2027
The paperwork is done: Brahim Tokindang joins from AS Algoy in a deal worth $5.0K. Now comes the harder part.
Squad11 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 Galactik this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces11 Jan 2027
Galactik spend $5.0K on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $5.0K for Brahim Tokindang, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words at Galactik training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Benjamin Ngakoutou 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.
Match9 Jan 2027
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad11 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Danil Baklanov, and the manager let it.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Too much change too quickly at Galactik
5 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 10. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Steady
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 28. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market16 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and AS Algoy know it.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Oumar Mbainaissem 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Muhammad Ubaydullayev, and the manager let it.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
A mark of 7.86, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words at AS Algoy training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mahamat 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.
Match14 Nov 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Market16 Nov 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Issa Tokindang’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Crisis
Market5 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Ahmat Ndoram is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Oumar Mbainaissem 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Moussa Bechir 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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Graduation day at AS Algoy
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Match3 Oct 2026
1‑3 to Renaissance, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Market5 Oct 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Djibrine Mbaiguedem 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.
Market5 Oct 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Djibrine Mahamat is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market5 Oct 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Hassan Mbainaissem 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
“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.
Market7 Sep 2026
The Aiglons deal is off
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Saleh Oumar reports back to AS Algoy with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Market7 Sep 2026
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. AS Algoy will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Oumar Mbaiguedem and AS Algoy agree another 3 years.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at AS Algoy training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abdramane 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
The name of Issa Tokindang keeps appearing in other people's back pages. AS Algoy say nothing, which says plenty.
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Steady
Market10 Aug 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 AS Algoy can pretend not to have heard.
Market10 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Hassan Djimet and AS Algoy agree another 3 years.
Squad10 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 AS Algoy this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at AS Algoy training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Issa Bechir 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Hassan Djimet 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 Algoy, and both men came out saying it was fine.