Marked for Moussa Bechir
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market14 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Moussa Bechir 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. US Moursal moved on, Hassan Ngaradoumbe reports back to AS Algoy, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Idriss Adoum 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 Algoy this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Moussa Allamine has improved at 27, 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
Words at AS Algoy training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ali Ngaradoumbe 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.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market10 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 The request is on a desk at AS Algoy, and it is not being withdrawn.
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.” Moussa Bechir and AS Algoy agree another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Oumar Adoum 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Idriss 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The Brahim Abba conversation is coming
Everyone has stopped pretending: Aiglons will make the call about Brahim Abba this week. AS Algoy have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market3 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Ali Ngaradoumbe and AS Algoy agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Idriss Adoum 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: AS DGSSIE have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Ali Bechir. The answer from AS Algoy has not changed — yet.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Ali Ngaradoumbe 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Moussa Bechir 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 Bechir trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.