Marked for Adam Allamine
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Crisis
Squad8 Feb 2027
There were 12 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.
Match6 Feb 2027
Beaten 0‑5 by AS Etat Major, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A fracture rules Thamsanqa Khune out for 31 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Aiglons will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match8 Feb 2027
Every point is an argument now for Aiglons
Position 11 and 20 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Market8 Feb 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 Aiglons can pretend not to have heard.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Yahya Salahshour: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Aiglons have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
The Aiglons board want somebody sold
The instruction has come from upstairs rather than from the dugout, which is the version of this conversation no manager enjoys. Somebody in that squad is now available whether the man who picks the team thinks so or not.
Squad8 Feb 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.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
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Steady
Market1 Feb 2027
$180.0K is a serious amount of money and it does not play centre-forward. Everybody in the dressing room knows who used to be looked at when it went wrong.
Squad1 Feb 2027
A fracture rules Thamsanqa Khune out for 38 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Aiglons will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
The terraces1 Feb 2027
Aiglons sell a favourite for $180.0K
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Yannick Masra was one of the reasons people came, and $180.0K does not replace that by itself.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Behruz Soatov 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.
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 Aiglons this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings1 Feb 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.01, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad1 Feb 2027
5 new faces, and Aiglons are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Match30 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.
Player ratings1 Feb 2027
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.
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Crisis
Squad4 Jan 2027
A fracture rules Thamsanqa Khune out for 66 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Aiglons will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad4 Jan 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 Aiglons have had the benefit of it.
Market4 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.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Up for the corner, and Alboury Aboubakar delivers — 7.89
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Alboury Aboubakar scored, was marked 7.89, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Yannick Masra 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Behruz Soatov 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.
Match2 Jan 2027
A bad afternoon for Aiglons against AS PSI
1‑2 to AS PSI, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Ten men and a goalkeeper behind him, and it still finished in the net. He knew before anybody told him, and nobody at Aiglons needed to.
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Upbeat
Squad28 Dec 2026
A fracture rules Thamsanqa Khune out for 73 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Aiglons will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.30, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Adam Allamine, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 7.80
A mark of 7.80 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Match26 Dec 2026
Three points for Aiglons, 4‑3 the final word against Galactik in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad28 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 Aiglons this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match26 Dec 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 7 goals between Aiglons and Galactik, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
The terraces28 Dec 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Fabien Djedanoum has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Squad28 Dec 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.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.01, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
In brief
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Boardroom
121% of the income goes out in wages at Aiglons
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Squad
A Aiglons teenager takes the young player award
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Player ratings
Fabien Djedanoum runs at them all day
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Crisis
Squad21 Dec 2026
A fracture rules Thamsanqa Khune out for 80 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Aiglons will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings21 Dec 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Behruz Soatov 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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Steady
Match4 Nov 2026
Aiglons bow out of the cup
Galactik go through and Aiglons go home, 3‑4 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Adam Allamine, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 8.11
A mark of 8.11 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Up for the corner, and Yannick Saleh delivers — 7.83
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Yannick Saleh scored, was marked 7.83, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Aiglons may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Yannick Masra 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.
Match4 Nov 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 7 goals between Aiglons and Galactik, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Match7 Nov 2026
Three points for Aiglons, 2‑1 the final word against AS Etat Major in a contest settled by the finer margins.
The terraces9 Nov 2026
At 20 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.
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Crisis
Squad2 Nov 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 11 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Aiglons may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
7.84, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
The Aiglons board want somebody sold
The instruction has come from upstairs rather than from the dugout, which is the version of this conversation no manager enjoys. Somebody in that squad is now available whether the man who picks the team thinks so or not.
Match31 Oct 2026
AS Algoy left with the points after a 3‑5 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Match31 Oct 2026
8 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Aiglons and AS Algoy in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at Aiglons 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Yannick Saleh, and the manager let it.
In brief
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Boardroom
105% of the income goes out in wages at Aiglons
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Player ratings
An afternoon Yannick Saleh will want back
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Player ratings
Off the bench and decisive: Hassan Ndoram
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Crisis
Squad19 Oct 2026
Djibrine Adoum: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Aiglons have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad19 Oct 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Adam 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.
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.
Match17 Oct 2026
Renaissance left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
One lapse, one goal, and ninety minutes of honest work counting for nothing. That is the job at Aiglons, and it is a cruel one.
Market19 Oct 2026
Aiglons have let the market know Yannick Masra can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
Market19 Oct 2026
Aiglons and Alfan Tri are talking past each other
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
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Upbeat
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
No sign of nerves from Fabien Djedanoum at 20 — 7.82
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Fabien Djedanoum did not need any: 7.82, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Up for the corner, and Alboury Aboubakar delivers — 7.77
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Alboury Aboubakar scored, was marked 7.77, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Narcisse Haroun is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Yannick Masra 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
At 24 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 4 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
Behruz Soatov 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.
The terraces12 Oct 2026
At 20 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.
Match10 Oct 2026
Three points for Aiglons, 2‑0 the final word against AS DGSSIE in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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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
Market31 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
Galactik come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and AS Algoy did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad31 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.
Squad31 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Ezechiel Ngaradoumbe and AS Algoy agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A new face in his position, and Hassan Djimet suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. AS Algoy have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
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Steady
Market17 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.
Market17 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.
Squad17 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Galactik have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Ezechiel Djimet. The answer from AS Algoy has not changed — yet.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at AS Algoy training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Adam 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Marius Haroun and AS Algoy agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
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Steady
Market3 Aug 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.
Market3 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.
Squad3 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
The name of Hassan Adoum has come up in conversations AS Algoy were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at AS Algoy training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Hassan Djimet 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.
Squad3 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.