Marked for Ezechiel Abba
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad28 Jun 2027
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Stars Jeunes Talents will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad28 Jun 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Adam Djimet
31 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Stars Jeunes Talents lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match28 Jun 2027
13 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
The terraces28 Jun 2027
The mood at Stars Jeunes Talents has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Boardroom28 Jun 2027
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Stars Jeunes Talents is running low.
Market28 Jun 2027
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Abdramane Haroun will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Stars Jeunes Talents the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Oumar Souleymane 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.
Loan watch28 Jun 2027
“I did not go to Aiglons to sit and watch. I want to come back to Stars Jeunes Talents and fight for my place.” 14 appearances in 46 matches say the rest.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Saleh Moustapha 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.
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Uneasy
Squad31 May 2027
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Stars Jeunes Talents will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match31 May 2027
13 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
The terraces31 May 2027
The mood at Stars Jeunes Talents has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Boardroom31 May 2027
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Market31 May 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Stars Jeunes Talents they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad31 May 2027
Brahim Adoum 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.
Loan watch31 May 2027
“I did not go to Aiglons to sit and watch. I want to come back to Stars Jeunes Talents and fight for my place.” 14 appearances in 42 matches say the rest.
Squad31 May 2027
“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.
Squad31 May 2027
Words at Stars Jeunes Talents training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ezechiel Mahamat 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.
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Uneasy
Market1 Mar 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 Stars Jeunes Talents can pretend not to have heard.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Brahim Adoum 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.
Squad1 Mar 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.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Words at Stars Jeunes Talents training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Oumar Souleymane 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.
Market1 Mar 2027
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Stars Jeunes Talents, another week without a signature from Brahim Tokindang.
Loan watch1 Mar 2027
“I did not go to Galactik to sit and watch. I want to come back to Stars Jeunes Talents and fight for my place.” 15 appearances in 28 matches say the rest.
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Crisis
Market4 Jan 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 Galactik, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Abanga Mahamat Youssouf 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Benjamin Ngakoutou 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.
Match2 Jan 2027
Foullah Edifice left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad4 Jan 2027
A place in the month's best eleven for Adam Ndoram
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Adam Ndoram has come out of that comparison in the side, and Galactik have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
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Uneasy
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 31. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match2 Jan 2027
6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Stars Jeunes Talents has to find a result from somewhere.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
No sign of nerves from Ezechiel Mahamat at 18 — 7.60
The hardest thing about being 18 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Ezechiel Mahamat did not need any: 7.60, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Market4 Jan 2027
AS DGSSIE come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Stars Jeunes Talents did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market4 Jan 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Brahim Adoum 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.
Squad4 Jan 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.
Loan watch4 Jan 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 8 appearances in 20 say he has earned the hearing.
Match2 Jan 2027
A 1‑1 draw with Elect Sport leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
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Crisis
Market26 Oct 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 46 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match24 Oct 2026
0‑2 to CotonTchad, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad26 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.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Saleh Ndoram ran the middle of the pitch — 6.36
He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 10 combined actions and a mark of 6.36, and not one of them will make a highlights package.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Stars Jeunes Talents training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Oumar Souleymane 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.
Loan watch26 Oct 2026
“I did not go to Galactik to sit and watch. I want to come back to Stars Jeunes Talents and fight for my place.” 3 appearances in 10 matches say the rest.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Abdoulaye Haroun 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.
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Crisis
Match17 Oct 2026
Beaten 1‑6 by Gazelle, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“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.
Match17 Oct 2026
7 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Galactik and Gazelle in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Ezechiel Abba 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.
Squad19 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 Galactik this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom19 Oct 2026
Nobody left the Galactik dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
Market19 Oct 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Market19 Oct 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Galactik know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Steady
Squad28 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Mahamat Ndoram
28 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Stars Jeunes Talents lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market28 Sep 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 Stars Jeunes Talents, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Brahim Adoum 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
At 25 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Brahim Moustapha is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 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.
Loan watch28 Sep 2026
“I watch every Stars Jeunes Talents game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Galactik runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
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Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
Ezechiel Abba 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.
Squad21 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 Galactik this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Mirkamol Annamatov 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad17 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 Galactik this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market17 Aug 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Galactik know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Market17 Aug 2026
A season-long audition: Stars Jeunes Talents still own him, but the shirt and the minutes are Galactik's to give. A loan is a bet both clubs believe they are winning.