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18 Jan 2027
Monday
Process

Marked for Zaidu Onyekuru

23 Edition

The Stars Jeunes Talents Gazette

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Stars Jeunes Talents tear Aiglons apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Aiglons, and it could have been more.

Match

Stars Jeunes Talents refuse to drop out of the race

Position 3, 21 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.

Market

Stars Jeunes Talents turn down Galactik for Zaidu Onyekuru

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Ezechiel Mbainaissem at 19 — 8.08

The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Ezechiel Mbainaissem did not need any: 8.08, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Squad

Moussa Abakar honoured for the season

The kind of year that ends with a name being read out in a hall. Stars Jeunes Talents had the benefit of it every week and now have the problem of everybody else knowing.

Squad

A falling-out at Stars Jeunes Talents

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

Loan watch

Marius Moustapha has seen enough of Foullah Edifice

“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 0 appearances in 21 say he has earned the hearing.

Looking ahead

The big one: Foullah Edifice come into view

Two sides from the top of the table, one afternoon, and a month of talk decided in ninety minutes. Stars Jeunes Talents will not use the word title this week and will not stop thinking it.

Player ratings

Saleh Abba in the eights

A performance of 8.23 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

In brief

Back issues
14 Edition

The Stars Jeunes Talents Gazette

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Boardroom

An order from above at Stars Jeunes Talents: somebody has to go

Balance sheets do not care about form or about who the manager was planning to build around. The board have decided a sale is required, and the only question left is which name ends up carrying it.

Loan watch

Djibrine Moustapha has seen enough of Gazelle

“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 0 appearances in 11 say he has earned the hearing.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Ezechiel Mbainaissem

Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Abdoulaye Bechir out for 39 days

The medical room confirms 39 days on the sidelines for Abdoulaye Bechir, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad

Words exchanged at Stars Jeunes Talents

Ali Ndoram 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.

Squad

Ezechiel Mbainaissem named in the team of the month

A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Ezechiel Mbainaissem is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.

The dugout

Half-satisfied: Moussa Ngaradoumbe on the draw

“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.

Squad

The weekend belonged to Moussa Abakar

Player of the week, judged against every other man in the division. A small award, and one most careers never collect.

Match

Point won or two lost for Stars Jeunes Talents?

Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against CotonTchad? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.

In brief