Marked for
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market10 Jan 2028
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 Jan 2028
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.
Transfer targets10 Jan 2028
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. AS PSI have kept their man, and AS Algoy go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad10 Jan 2028
A row about effort at AS Algoy
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Oumar Oumar was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout10 Jan 2028
“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 dugout10 Jan 2028
Oumar Allamine has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at AS Algoy will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Market10 Jan 2028
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until a squad player signs something — a contract at AS Algoy or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout10 Jan 2028
Saleh Doungous 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 Saleh Doungous trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market10 Jan 2028
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Idriss Mahamat leaves AS Algoy the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
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Steady
Match1 Jan 2028
Nowhere to hide for AS Algoy
1‑6 against Renaissance, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Squad3 Jan 2028
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.
Player ratings3 Jan 2028
Marked 7.73 at 16, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
The dugout3 Jan 2028
Idriss Mahamat: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” AS Algoy have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market3 Jan 2028
Moussa Abakar 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 Algoy can pretend not to have heard.
Market3 Jan 2028
Only the photograph left for Ahmat Haroun
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ahmat Haroun will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around AS Algoy the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Match1 Jan 2028
7 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about AS Algoy and Renaissance in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Squad3 Jan 2028
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.
Transfer targets3 Jan 2028
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
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Uneasy
Squad1 Nov 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Oumar Doungous
34 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.
Match30 Oct 2027
The wait goes on for AS Algoy
5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Market1 Nov 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around AS Algoy they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad1 Nov 2027
A falling-out at AS Algoy
Youssouf Mbaiguedem and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad1 Nov 2027
Oumar Oumar 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 dugout1 Nov 2027
Oumar 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 watch1 Nov 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 AS Algoy, and 2 appearances in 13 say he has earned the hearing.
Player ratings1 Nov 2027
7.43, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. AS Algoy had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
The dugout1 Nov 2027
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Marius Souleymane chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
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Steady
Squad18 Oct 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Oumar Doungous
48 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.
Market18 Oct 2027
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Adam Souleymane will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around AS Algoy the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad18 Oct 2027
Youssouf Mbaiguedem 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.
Squad18 Oct 2027
Oumar Oumar 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.
Match16 Oct 2027
A point taken on 88 minutes is worth exactly one point and considerably more than that to a dressing room. This side does not stop, which is a reputation worth more than the result.
Squad18 Oct 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Adam Mbaiguedem and AS Algoy agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Match16 Oct 2027
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
The dugout18 Oct 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Issa Djimet, and the manager let it.
The dugout18 Oct 2027
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 1‑1 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
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Steady
Squad27 Sep 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Oumar Doungous
69 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.
Market27 Sep 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.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Words exchanged at AS Algoy
Youssouf Mbaiguedem 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.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Youssouf Mbaiguedem has improved at 34, 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.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Words at AS Algoy training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Oumar Oumar 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.
Market27 Sep 2027
“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.
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Steady
Squad20 Sep 2027
76 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. AS Algoy lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad20 Sep 2027
A fracture rules Idriss Mahamat out for 20 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason AS Algoy will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market20 Sep 2027
Idriss Mahamat has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around AS Algoy they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Adam Souleymane is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 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.
Squad20 Sep 2027
At 30 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.
Market20 Sep 2027
The a squad player question follows AS Algoy around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with a squad player’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Steady
Squad30 Aug 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Oumar Doungous
97 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.
Squad30 Aug 2027
41 days out for Idriss Mahamat 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.
Market30 Aug 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.
Squad30 Aug 2027
The step up is real for Oumar Oumar
At 21 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.
Transfer targets30 Aug 2027
The deal with Elect Sport is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Words exchanged at AS Algoy
Youssouf Mbaiguedem 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.
Market30 Aug 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Oumar Oumar’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Market30 Aug 2027
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Ali Mbainaissem leaves AS Algoy the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
Market30 Aug 2027
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Abdramane Haroun leaves AS Algoy the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
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Steady
Squad9 Aug 2027
Oumar Doungous damages knee ligaments — 118 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 118 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.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 62 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Transfer targets9 Aug 2027
The clubs have shaken hands with Elect Sport; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Market9 Aug 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around AS Algoy they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market9 Aug 2027
AS Algoy say no — this time
The offer from Aiglons for Ali Doungous 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.
Squad9 Aug 2027
A falling-out at AS Algoy
Youssouf Mbaiguedem and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad9 Aug 2027
At 29 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.
Transfer targets9 Aug 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market9 Aug 2027
The name of a squad player keeps appearing in other people's back pages. AS Algoy say nothing, which says plenty.
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Steady
Squad19 Jul 2027
139 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. AS Algoy lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market19 Jul 2027
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. AS Algoy have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market19 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.
Market19 Jul 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.
Squad19 Jul 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.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. US Moursal have kept their man, and AS Algoy go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Oumar Oumar 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 dugout19 Jul 2027
Oumar Oumar 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.
Market19 Jul 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Youssouf Mbaiguedem’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Steady
Squad12 Jul 2027
Oumar Doungous damages knee ligaments — 146 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 146 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.
Market12 Jul 2027
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and US Moursal waiting with a shirt. Nobody at AS Algoy is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market12 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.
Market12 Jul 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.
Squad12 Jul 2027
A falling-out at AS Algoy
Youssouf Mbaiguedem and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets12 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.
The dugout12 Jul 2027
Issa Djimet 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.
Squad12 Jul 2027
A row about effort at AS Algoy
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Idriss Mahamat was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market12 Jul 2027
The name of a squad player keeps appearing in other people's back pages. AS Algoy say nothing, which says plenty.
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Steady
Market14 Jun 2027
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. AS Algoy have lost him in all but the paperwork.
The dugout14 Jun 2027
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” AS Algoy have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Transfer targets14 Jun 2027
$77.0K settles it between the clubs for Saleh Abba
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.
Market14 Jun 2027
Idriss Mahamat has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around AS Algoy they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad14 Jun 2027
A falling-out at AS Algoy
Youssouf Mbaiguedem and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Words at AS Algoy training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Oumar Oumar 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.
Market14 Jun 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. AS Algoy know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad14 Jun 2027
A bad Saturday is forgiven; a bad Tuesday is chosen. Standards have slipped and in a building where everybody watches everybody, it has been noticed.
The dugout14 Jun 2027
The message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: Oumar Doungous plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.
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Steady
Market7 Jun 2027
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. AS Algoy have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Words exchanged at AS Algoy
Youssouf Mbaiguedem 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.
Squad7 Jun 2027
A row about effort at AS Algoy
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Oumar Oumar was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout7 Jun 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Oumar Oumar, and the manager let it.
Loan watch7 Jun 2027
“I watch every AS Algoy game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at AS PSI runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The dugout7 Jun 2027
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Abdoulaye Djimet trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Steady
The dugout10 May 2027
Saleh Moustapha: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” AS Algoy have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market10 May 2027
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Adam Souleymane will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around AS Algoy the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad10 May 2027
Words exchanged at AS Algoy
Youssouf Mbaiguedem 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.
Loan watch10 May 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 AS Algoy, and 3 appearances in 17 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad10 May 2027
Idriss Mahamat 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.
Market10 May 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. AS Algoy know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Steady
Market12 Apr 2027
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Adam Souleymane will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around AS Algoy the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Youssouf Mbaiguedem 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.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Oumar Oumar 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 watch12 Apr 2027
“I did not go to AS PSI to sit and watch. I want to come back to AS Algoy and fight for my place.” 3 appearances in 13 matches say the rest.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Marius Ngaradoumbe, and the manager let it.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
Oumar Oumar 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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Crisis
Market15 Mar 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.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Youssouf Mbaiguedem 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.
Squad15 Mar 2027
A row about effort at AS Algoy
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Oumar Oumar was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match13 Mar 2027
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Loan watch15 Mar 2027
“I did not go to AS PSI to sit and watch. I want to come back to AS Algoy and fight for my place.” 3 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.
The dugout15 Mar 2027
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Marius Souleymane after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
The dugout15 Mar 2027
Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.
The dugout15 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Hassan Haroun
“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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Steady
Match6 Mar 2027
Stars Jeunes Talents will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. AS Algoy were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Squad8 Mar 2027
The match ball belongs to Marius Allamine, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Market8 Mar 2027
Ahmat Haroun has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around AS Algoy they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” a squad player and AS Algoy agree another 3 years.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Words exchanged at AS Algoy
Youssouf Mbaiguedem 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.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
Marked 9.40 — 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.
The terraces8 Mar 2027
At 18 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Oumar Oumar named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Oumar Oumar is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout8 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.” Marius Souleymane kept it short after the 3‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
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Crisis
Market8 Feb 2027
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and US Moursal waiting with a shirt. Nobody at AS Algoy is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market8 Feb 2027
Only the photograph left for Ahmat Haroun
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ahmat Haroun will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around AS Algoy the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at AS Algoy
Youssouf Mbaiguedem 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.
Match6 Feb 2027
Foullah Edifice left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Idriss Hissein, and the manager let it.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑2 defeat, delivered by Marius Souleymane to a room that had heard them before.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Saleh Djimet named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Saleh Djimet is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
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Upbeat
Market11 Jan 2027
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and US Moursal waiting with a shirt. Nobody at AS Algoy is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market11 Jan 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at AS Algoy
Youssouf Mbaiguedem 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Oumar Oumar 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 dugout11 Jan 2027
Oumar 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.
Market11 Jan 2027
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. AS Algoy will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Looking ahead11 Jan 2027
AS Algoy take on the side everybody is chasing
CotonTchad arrive as leaders. A side at the top is beaten roughly once a month, and the club that does it gets a week it remembers for a year.
The dugout11 Jan 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.
Market11 Jan 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. AS Algoy know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Crisis
Squad16 Nov 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 60 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market16 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.
Market16 Nov 2026
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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at AS Algoy
Youssouf Mbaiguedem 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.
Match14 Nov 2026
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Oumar Doungous, and the manager let it.
The dugout16 Nov 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 1‑2 Marius Souleymane left the room before anybody could ask which.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Abdramane Mahamat 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 dugout16 Nov 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Abdoulaye Djimet trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 95 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market12 Oct 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
At 21 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A falling-out at AS Algoy
Youssouf Mbaiguedem and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad12 Oct 2026
At 29 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.
Loan watch12 Oct 2026
“I did not go to Gazelle to sit and watch. I want to come back to AS Algoy and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.
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Uneasy
Market5 Oct 2026
Only the photograph left for Ahmat Haroun
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ahmat Haroun will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around AS Algoy the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad5 Oct 2026
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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
At 30 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.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Marius Allamine, and the manager let it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
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.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Marius Souleymane after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
No investment in the facilities at AS Algoy
Nothing about this will be in a press release. A plan went upstairs, came back rejected, and the version of the club that would have existed in three years' time just quietly stopped being possible.
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Steady
Market14 Sep 2026
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. AS Algoy have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market14 Sep 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
AS Algoy say no — this time
The offer from Aiglons for Saleh Djimet 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Abdramane Mahamat is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A falling-out at AS Algoy
Youssouf Mbaiguedem and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
“I watch every AS Algoy game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Gazelle runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
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Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and US Moursal waiting with a shirt. Nobody at AS Algoy is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
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
A falling-out at AS Algoy
Youssouf Mbaiguedem and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market17 Aug 2026
Galactik pay $21.0K, 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A row about effort at AS Algoy
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Djibrine Mbainaissem was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Steady
Market10 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and US Moursal waiting with a shirt. Nobody at AS Algoy is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” a squad player commits to AS Algoy for another 2 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Youssouf Mbaiguedem 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Moussa 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Hassan Hissein 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.
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Steady
Market3 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Oumar Doungous commits to AS Algoy for another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A row about effort at AS Algoy
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Oumar Doungous was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market3 Aug 2026
The name of Moussa Abakar has come up in conversations AS Algoy were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Market3 Aug 2026
24 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.