The AS Etat Major Post
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
No thanks: Oumar Mahamat rejects the move
AS Etat Major had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Foullah Edifice, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Market14 Sep 2026
Idriss Mbaiguedem’s move to AS DGSSIE falls through
The deal that would have taken Idriss Mbaiguedem to AS DGSSIE has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to AS Etat Major with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The step up is real for Idriss Mbaiguedem
At 19 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Late improvement for a squad player
At 25 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
AS Etat Major promote Ezechiel Oumar from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ezechiel Oumar 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
Moussa Bechir steps up from the AS Etat Major academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Moussa Bechir has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market14 Sep 2026
One of our own: Moussa Allamine joins the AS Etat Major first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Moussa Allamine is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A row about effort at AS Etat Major
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Djibrine Djimet was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
a squad player knocks on the manager's door
“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 Etat Major, and both men came out saying it was fine.
In brief
- Squad The training reports on Djibrine Hissein are not good
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Djibrine Hissein