Keagan Mkhize

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Process

Marked for Keagan Mkhize

120 Edition

The AS PSI Chronicle

13 Nov 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Oumar Youssouf damages knee ligaments — 100 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 100 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.

Match

No mercy from AS PSI

US Moursal will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. AS PSI were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.

Market

Bark Abdramane is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at AS PSI is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Player ratings

Both of them Ali Issa Blagué's — 8.28

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.28, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad

Brahim Goudja 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 AS PSI this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Brahim Goudja in the eights

A performance of 8.27 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad

Djibrine Haroun 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 dugout

The manager makes an example of Keagan Mkhize

“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.

Squad

4 AS PSI players away with their countries

The training ground goes quiet for a fortnight. 4 men have gone off to be somebody else’s players, and the manager is left with the ones nobody has called.

In brief

Back issues
117 Edition

The AS PSI Chronicle

23 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Oumar Youssouf damages knee ligaments — 121 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 121 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.

Squad

A falling-out at AS PSI

Brahim Goudja and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

AS PSI see off Foullah Edifice

Three points for AS PSI, 1‑0 the final word against Foullah Edifice in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad

A row about effort at AS PSI

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Djibrine Haroun was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

No hiding place for Djibrine Haroun

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Djibrine Haroun, and the manager let it.

Player ratings

Brahim Goudja was the difference for AS PSI

Marked 7.96. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

The dugout

Ezechiel Hissein has his say

“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Ezechiel Hissein on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.

The dugout

Brahim Goudja 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.

The dugout

The form table has caught Keagan Mkhize

Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.

In brief

113 Edition

The AS PSI Chronicle

25 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Abdoulaye Haroun hands in a written request

“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 PSI can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

A falling-out at AS PSI

Brahim Goudja and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Words at AS PSI training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Djibrine Haroun 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.

Market

The Nassar Koulelengar story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Nassar Koulelengar signs something — a contract at AS PSI or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

Market

Still no ink between AS PSI and Hassan Adoum

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at AS PSI, another week without a signature from Hassan Adoum.

Market

Noël Allaramadji placed on the list

AS PSI have made Noël Allaramadji available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

In brief

111 Edition

The AS PSI Chronicle

11 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Terms done: Bark Abdramane is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and AS Etat Major waiting with a shirt. Nobody at AS PSI is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Match

AS PSI refuse to drop out of the race

Position 2, 49 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Squad

Words exchanged at AS PSI

Brahim Goudja 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Brahim Goudja

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Brahim Goudja, and the manager let it.

Squad

Words at AS PSI training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Djibrine Haroun 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.

Market

AS PSI sign Keagan Mkhize, one for the future

Keagan Mkhize is 20, and AS PSI have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

Squad

AS PSI are still strangers to each other

5 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

Market

AS PSI and Djibrine Haroun are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

The dugout

Innocent Mbairamadji knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Innocent Mbairamadji trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief