Marked for Abdramane Tokindang
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad22 Feb 2027
Adam Djimet 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 US Moursal this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad22 Feb 2027
A row about effort at US Moursal
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Abdramane Abba was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ali Mbainaissem, and the manager let it.
Loan watch22 Feb 2027
19 appearances at Foullah Edifice and the goals have stopped going in. US Moursal lent out a goalkeeper and are watching somebody else’s season get better every week.
Market22 Feb 2027
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Djibrine Bechir signs something — a contract at US Moursal or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Market22 Feb 2027
5 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what US Moursal could get for him.
Loan watch22 Feb 2027
The goals keep arriving from Hassan Allamine’s exile
4 goals in 20 games at AS DGSSIE — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at US Moursal updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
Loan watch22 Feb 2027
17 starts and a season average of 6.65. The loan is doing exactly what it was arranged to do.
Looking ahead22 Feb 2027
Home comforts ahead for US Moursal
AS Algoy, position 5, come to town on Saturday. Nobody will call it a big game and nobody at the club will be treating it as anything else.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Steady
The dugout18 Jan 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” US Moursal may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market18 Jan 2027
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and AS Algoy waiting with a shirt. Nobody at US Moursal is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market18 Jan 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Djibrine Bechir 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
A row about effort at US Moursal
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Youssouf Allamine was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Loan watch18 Jan 2027
“I watch every US Moursal game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Foullah Edifice runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 15. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ali Bechir, and the manager let it.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
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Crisis
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Nobody could get near Yaya Karim
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match5 Dec 2026
Elect Sport left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Djibrine Allamine was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
Yaya Karim has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Foullah Edifice 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.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Abdramane Tokindang, and the manager let it.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
Nobody at Foullah Edifice is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
Market7 Dec 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Foullah Edifice know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Steady
Match10 Oct 2026
US Moursal throw away a 2-goal lead
2 in front and in complete control, and it finished with CotonTchad the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that US Moursal will enjoy reviewing.
Market12 Oct 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
The match ball belongs to Oumar Adoum, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Abdramane Abba, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.64
A mark of 7.64 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad12 Oct 2026
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.
Squad12 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 US Moursal this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Oumar Adoum has improved at 30, 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.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Ninety minutes of Oumar Adoum at his very best
Marked 9.05. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at US Moursal.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
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
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at US Moursal this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Sep 2026
At 28 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Youssouf 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.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Abdramane Abba, and the manager let it.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
“I did not go to Foullah Edifice to sit and watch. I want to come back to US Moursal and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Adam Hissein 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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Steady
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Foullah Edifice have done the hard part with AS Algoy, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Constant Matoingue 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. AS Algoy have kept their man, and Foullah Edifice go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
US Moursal have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Squad17 Aug 2026
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Foullah Edifice has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
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Steady
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Everything agreed with US Moursal, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad10 Aug 2026
69 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad10 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 Foullah Edifice this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Narcisse Djimet 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
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Marius Djimet is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Adam Souleymane 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.
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Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Yaya Karim and Foullah Edifice agree another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Constant Matoingue 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
The name of Bicto Tyonga has come up in conversations Foullah Edifice were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Foullah Edifice, another week without a signature from Yaya Karim.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to US Moursal: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Foullah Edifice have made the call to US Moursal. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Market3 Aug 2026
Bicto Tyonga is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Foullah Edifice has been clear about where Bicto Tyonga stands, which is more than many ever get.
Squad3 Aug 2026
It is a strip of cloth and it decides nothing on a Saturday. It still tells the dressing room exactly whose opinion the manager values, which is the whole point of it.
Market3 Aug 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Mbogo Acyl’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
In brief
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Squad
The training reports on Yves Allarabaye are not good
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The dugout
The manager comes out for Kita