Marked for Issa Mahamat
From our football correspondent
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 The request is on a desk at AS Algoy, and it is not being withdrawn.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.
Back issues
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Upbeat
Market28 Dec 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 The request is on a desk at AS Algoy, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad28 Dec 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.
Match26 Dec 2026
Three points for AS Algoy, 1‑0 the final word against AS DGSSIE in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Loan watch28 Dec 2026
“I watch every AS Algoy 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 ratings28 Dec 2026
Marked 7.48 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, AS Algoy had the best player on the pitch.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Saleh Mbaiguedem 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Ahmat 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
“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.
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Steady
Market30 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.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.53, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.41, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Match30 Nov 2026
Every point is an argument now for AS Algoy
Position 11 and 7 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.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 29. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match28 Nov 2026
Moussa Bechir scored, and precious little else went right: 4‑5 to US Moursal, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Match28 Nov 2026
Moussa Bechir among the goals in a wild afternoon
9 goals in one match, Moussa Bechir on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of AS Algoy and US Moursal.
Squad30 Nov 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.
Loan watch30 Nov 2026
“I watch every AS Algoy 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.
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Crisis
Squad26 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 17 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match24 Oct 2026
1‑8 to AS Etat Major, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Market26 Oct 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
9 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about AS Algoy and AS Etat Major in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Squad26 Oct 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.
Boardroom26 Oct 2026
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
Loan watch26 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 Algoy, and 0 appearances in 11 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Mahamat Mbainaissem 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
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.
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Triumph
Squad19 Oct 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Foullah Edifice will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad19 Oct 2026
3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Foullah Edifice may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Benjamin Merba is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Match17 Oct 2026
Nobody wants to play Foullah Edifice right now
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Match17 Oct 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Innocent Mbairamadji. 3‑2 against AS DGSSIE, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
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Steady
Market28 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Hassan Djimet 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.
Squad28 Sep 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Saleh Oumar has improved at 26, 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.
Loan watch28 Sep 2026
“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 7 matches say the rest.
Squad28 Sep 2026
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.