Marked for Ezechiel Hissein
From our football correspondent
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Market30 Aug 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 The request is on a desk at AS Algoy, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market30 Aug 2027
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Muhammad Ubaydullayev will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around AS Algoy the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market30 Aug 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 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.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Moussa Bechir 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.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Issa Tokindang has improved at 31, 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.
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Steady
Market16 Aug 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Azizbek Ergashaliyev is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Market16 Aug 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 Algoy can pretend not to have heard.
Market16 Aug 2027
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Galactik moved on, Ezechiel Hissein reports back to AS Algoy, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Youssouf Moustapha 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.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Issa Tokindang has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at AS Algoy will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market9 Aug 2027
AS Algoy say no — this time
The offer from CotonTchad for Azizbek Ergashaliyev 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.
Market9 Aug 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.
Squad9 Aug 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Moussa Ngaradoumbe and AS Algoy agree another 2 years.
Market9 Aug 2027
The name of Oumar Mbaiguedem has come up in conversations AS Algoy were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad9 Aug 2027
5 new faces, and AS Algoy 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.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Abdramane Ndoram 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
Market2 Aug 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 AS Algoy, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad2 Aug 2027
A fracture rules Brahim Adoum out for 15 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason AS Algoy will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Boardroom2 Aug 2027
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Moussa Bechir 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.
Squad2 Aug 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Moussa Ngaradoumbe commits to AS Algoy for another 2 years.
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Steady
Market1 Feb 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 AS Algoy, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 37 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad1 Feb 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.
Market1 Feb 2027
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Stars Jeunes Talents moved on, Ezechiel Hissein reports back to AS Algoy, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
Squad1 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Adam Youssouf, and the manager let it.
Loan watch1 Feb 2027
“I did not go to Foullah Edifice to sit and watch. I want to come back to AS Algoy and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 25 matches say the rest.
Market1 Feb 2027
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. AS Algoy will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Abdramane Ndoram 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.
Match30 Jan 2027
A 1‑1 draw with Aiglons leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
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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.
Market14 Sep 2026
The deal that would have taken Oumar Mbainaissem to AS DGSSIE has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to AS Algoy with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Brahim Adoum is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
At 27 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.
Squad14 Sep 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.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
“I did not go to Aiglons to sit and watch. I want to come back to AS Algoy and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market24 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.
Market24 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: AS PSI have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Oumar Mbainaissem. The answer from AS Algoy has not changed — yet.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Moussa Bechir 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.
Squad24 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mahamat Mbainaissem, and the manager let it.