Marked for Ezechiel Bechir
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Squad1 Mar 2027
5 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Match27 Feb 2027
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 10‑1 against AS Algoy, and it could have been more.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Defences have started doubling up on Brahim Allamine
34 goals and a season average of 7.31 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Squad1 Mar 2027
The match ball belongs to Moussa Mbaiguedem, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Market1 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.
Match27 Feb 2027
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now US Moursal have 3 straight wins of it.
Market1 Mar 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at US Moursal is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Match27 Feb 2027
10 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
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Upbeat
Squad8 Feb 2027
6 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Match6 Feb 2027
AS DGSSIE will want this one forgotten quickly: 11‑1, every duel lost, and a long ride home. US Moursal were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Match8 Feb 2027
41 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Squad8 Feb 2027
28 goals and a season average of 7.25. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.50, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad8 Feb 2027
The match ball belongs to Marius Allamine, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Market8 Feb 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around US Moursal they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
The US Moursal 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.
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Steady
Market7 Sep 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 US Moursal can pretend not to have heard.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Florent Warna is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Market7 Sep 2026
The deal that would have taken Ali Abba to Galactik has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to US Moursal with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Squad7 Sep 2026
At 25 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Adam Oumar gets it from the manager
“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.
Market7 Sep 2026
Add another name to the list: Aiglons have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Ezechiel Bechir. The answer from US Moursal has not changed — yet.
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Steady
Market31 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 US Moursal, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market31 Aug 2026
The offer from Aiglons for Ezechiel Bechir 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Marius Allamine 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Florent Warna 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ali Ngaradoumbe commits to US Moursal for another 3 years.
Market31 Aug 2026
Galactik are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. US Moursal will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
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Steady
Market17 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.
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
Adam Oumar 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
The name of Djibrine Doungous has come up in conversations US Moursal were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Abdoulaye Ndoram, and the manager let it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Youssouf Bechir 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
Market3 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 US Moursal, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Youssouf Djimet 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at US Moursal training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Brahim 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. US Moursal have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ezechiel Bechir commits to US Moursal for another 1 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Ezechiel Haroun 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.