Marked for
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market12 Apr 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 The request is on a desk at Stars Jeunes Talents, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Hassan Hissein 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.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Hassan Adoum was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Loan watch12 Apr 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Stars Jeunes Talents, and 7 appearances in 34 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
“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.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
Hassan Adoum 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 Hassan Adoum trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market12 Apr 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Moussa Tokindang’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Squad12 Apr 2027
The table has started to be checked before the results are in, and that is always the tell. Nobody at Stars Jeunes Talents says the word out loud, and everybody in the building is thinking it.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
The terraces1 Mar 2027
A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.
Squad1 Mar 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 Stars Jeunes Talents this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market1 Mar 2027
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Abdoulaye Haroun 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.
Market1 Mar 2027
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Marius Haroun 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.
Market1 Mar 2027
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.
Loan watch1 Mar 2027
“I watch every Stars Jeunes Talents game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at AS DGSSIE runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Abdramane Bechir was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.
The dugout1 Mar 2027
“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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
The terraces1 Feb 2027
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Market1 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.
Match30 Jan 2027
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Stars Jeunes Talents are no longer polite ones.
Market1 Feb 2027
The name of Hassan Bechir has come up in conversations Stars Jeunes Talents were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Boardroom1 Feb 2027
Stars Jeunes Talents close the window on a squad of their own making
0 in and 3 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Squad1 Feb 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 Stars Jeunes Talents this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match30 Jan 2027
Galactik left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Hassan 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.
Loan watch1 Feb 2027
“I did not go to AS DGSSIE to sit and watch. I want to come back to Stars Jeunes Talents and fight for my place.” 1 appearances in 25 matches say the rest.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market21 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 Stars Jeunes Talents can pretend not to have heard.
Squad21 Dec 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Moussa Tokindang 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Hassan 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.
Match19 Dec 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Marius 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.
Loan watch21 Dec 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Stars Jeunes Talents, and 4 appearances in 14 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Ahmat Adoum left the room before anybody could ask which.
Squad21 Dec 2026
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Stars Jeunes Talents will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.