The CotonTchad Chronicle
Market17 Aug 2026
Gazelle come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and CotonTchad did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Hicham El Aroui 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 CotonTchad this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Joseph Molangoane 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
15 new faces, and CotonTchad 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A season on the outside for Zaid Karouch
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at CotonTchad has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
Market17 Aug 2026
CotonTchad borrow Adam Haroun
A season-long look at somebody else’s player: Adam Haroun arrives from AS Etat Major with something to prove and a return ticket in the drawer. Good loans make everybody richer; this one starts Saturday.
In brief
- Market CotonTchad bring in Ahmat Haroun on loan
- Market CotonTchad bring in Ezechiel Oumar on loan