Marked for Marcel Moukoudi
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
The dugout27 Sep 2027
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Market27 Sep 2027
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Marcel Moukoudi will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around AS Algoy the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad27 Sep 2027
A row about effort at AS Algoy
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Moussa Doungous was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad27 Sep 2027
A falling-out at AS Algoy
Ali Mahamat and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad27 Sep 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Saleh Bechir and AS Algoy agree another 4 years.
The dugout27 Sep 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Saleh Bechir, and the manager let it.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Market13 Sep 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.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Abdramane Ndoram is a better footballer than he was
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.
Market13 Sep 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market13 Sep 2027
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Narcisse Allamine will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around AS Algoy the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad13 Sep 2027
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.
Market13 Sep 2027
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Narcisse Mbainaissem 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.
Transfer targets13 Sep 2027
The window shuts on the Oumar Bechir deal
AS Algoy ran out of time with AS DGSSIE. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.
Squad13 Sep 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Moussa Abakar and AS Algoy agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Loan watch13 Sep 2027
“I watch every AS Algoy game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Aiglons runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
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Uneasy
Market30 Aug 2027
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around AS Algoy people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Transfer targets30 Aug 2027
$6.0K settles it between the clubs for Adam Tokindang
US Moursal have accepted the money. What AS Algoy do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
The dugout30 Aug 2027
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Transfer targets30 Aug 2027
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. AS Algoy have done the hard part with Stars Jeunes Talents, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad30 Aug 2027
At 20 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Words exchanged at AS Algoy
Jean Bekale and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Jean Bekale 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.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Words at AS Algoy training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Moussa Doungous 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.
The dugout30 Aug 2027
The manager makes an example of Moussa Doungous
“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.
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Uneasy
Market23 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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Mahamat Souleymane is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Market23 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.
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
AS Algoy had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at CotonTchad, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Jean Bekale 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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
At 26 the improving is meant to be over, and it is not: 3 points better than a year ago. It happens to the ones who take the boring parts seriously.
Market23 Aug 2027
Add another name to the list: AS DGSSIE have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Issa Allamine. The answer from AS Algoy has not changed — yet.
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
A loan enquiry to Gazelle: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Too much change too quickly at AS Algoy
5 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
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Uneasy
Squad26 Jul 2027
Marcel Aboubakar damages knee ligaments — 138 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 138 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market26 Jul 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.
Market26 Jul 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Transfer targets26 Jul 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Renaissance have kept their man, and AS Algoy go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Words at AS Algoy training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Moussa Doungous 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.
Market26 Jul 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. AS Algoy have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad26 Jul 2027
A falling-out at AS Algoy
Adam Abba and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout26 Jul 2027
“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.
Market26 Jul 2027
The name of Moussa Doungous keeps appearing in other people's back pages. AS Algoy say nothing, which says plenty.
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Uneasy
Squad19 Jul 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Marcel Aboubakar
145 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. AS Algoy lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market19 Jul 2027
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around AS Algoy people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market19 Jul 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market19 Jul 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.
The dugout19 Jul 2027
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Squad19 Jul 2027
A falling-out at AS Algoy
Narcisse Mbainaissem and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market19 Jul 2027
Gazelle pay $18.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Words at AS Algoy training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Moussa Doungous 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.
Squad19 Jul 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Saleh Bechir commits to AS Algoy for another 4 years.
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Uneasy
Market28 Jun 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.
Market28 Jun 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Words at AS Algoy training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Moussa Doungous 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.
The dugout28 Jun 2027
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Squad28 Jun 2027
A falling-out at AS Algoy
Adam Abba and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market28 Jun 2027
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Abdoulaye Allamine signs something — a contract at AS Algoy or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Market28 Jun 2027
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Marcel Moukoudi may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
The dugout28 Jun 2027
“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.
The dugout28 Jun 2027
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Abdoulaye Allamine has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
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Uneasy
Market21 Jun 2027
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Marcel Aboubakar will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around AS Algoy the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market21 Jun 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.
Market21 Jun 2027
AS PSI 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.
The dugout21 Jun 2027
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Squad21 Jun 2027
Saleh 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.
Squad21 Jun 2027
A row about effort at AS Algoy
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Abdoulaye Allamine was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets21 Jun 2027
A loan enquiry to AS Etat Major: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Market21 Jun 2027
Jean Bekale linked with a move away
The name of Jean Bekale keeps appearing in other people's back pages. AS Algoy say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout21 Jun 2027
Marcel Moukoudi asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Uneasy
Market14 Jun 2027
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Idriss Moustapha had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Market14 Jun 2027
CotonTchad 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.
Market14 Jun 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.
The dugout14 Jun 2027
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Squad14 Jun 2027
Abdoulaye Allamine 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.
Squad14 Jun 2027
A row about effort at AS Algoy
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Moussa Doungous was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market14 Jun 2027
The phone has started ringing about Issa Ndoram again, and this time the name on the line is AS DGSSIE. AS Algoy are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad14 Jun 2027
A call-up flatters the player and the club that produced him in the same breath. AS Algoy would like him back in one piece and know they will not be consulted.
The dugout14 Jun 2027
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Hassan Mbainaissem trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Uneasy
Market10 May 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.
Market10 May 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at AS Algoy is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad10 May 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 AS Algoy this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 May 2027
Saleh 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.
The dugout10 May 2027
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Loan watch10 May 2027
12 shut-outs in 23 games. A goalkeeper’s loan is judged on the afternoons when nothing happened at all, and Marius Haroun has been having a lot of them.
Market10 May 2027
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Moussa Doungous signs something — a contract at AS Algoy or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Market10 May 2027
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Squad10 May 2027
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at AS Algoy would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
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Uneasy
Market3 May 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.
The dugout3 May 2027
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Market3 May 2027
Only the photograph left for Issa Ndoram
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Issa Ndoram will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around AS Algoy the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad3 May 2027
A falling-out at AS Algoy
Abdoulaye Allamine and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad3 May 2027
A row about effort at AS Algoy
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Moussa Doungous was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout3 May 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Issa Ndoram, and the manager let it.
Market3 May 2027
Saleh Adoum linked with a move away
The name of Saleh Adoum keeps appearing in other people's back pages. AS Algoy say nothing, which says plenty.
Market3 May 2027
AS Algoy have let the market know Marius Mbainaissem can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
Squad3 May 2027
“I want to play”: Issa Ndoram speaks
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
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Upbeat
Squad29 Mar 2027
Marcel Aboubakar damages knee ligaments — 45 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 45 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Player ratings29 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 29. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market29 Mar 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.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
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Squad29 Mar 2027
Words at AS Algoy training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abdoulaye 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.
Match27 Mar 2027
It finished 2‑0, and it was Narcisse Mbainaissem’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to AS Algoy.
Player ratings29 Mar 2027
Marked 8.58 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Adam Abba 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.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Saleh Bechir kept it short after the 2‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
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Steady
Market28 Dec 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.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Two goals and a mark of 9.09 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Match28 Dec 2026
AS Algoy are in real trouble now
Position 11, 10 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Saleh 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.
Match26 Dec 2026
It finished 2‑1, and it was Saleh Adoum’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to AS Algoy.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Moussa Doungous 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 dugout28 Dec 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Saleh Bechir kept it short after the 2‑1 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
The dugout28 Dec 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.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Shots: 11, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
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Crisis
Squad9 Nov 2026
38 days out for Marius Hissein after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. AS Algoy will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match7 Nov 2026
AS Algoy bow out of the cup
Foullah Edifice go through and AS Algoy go home, 0‑1 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Market9 Nov 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match7 Nov 2026
4 matches without a win for AS Algoy
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around AS Algoy are no longer polite ones.
Match7 Nov 2026
4 matches without a goal for AS Algoy
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Abdoulaye Allamine 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A row about effort at AS Algoy
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Moussa Doungous was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Saleh Bechir after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
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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
Saleh 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
The name of Adam Abba has come up in conversations AS Algoy were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Mahamat Bechir and AS Algoy agree another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at AS Algoy training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Moussa Doungous 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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan move for Florent Warna is in the works
AS Algoy have made the call to Foullah Edifice. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to Renaissance: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to Elect Sport: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
Marius Hissein asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.