Marked for Mahamat Moustapha
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad14 Sep 2026
139 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. US Moursal lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market14 Sep 2026
The offer from Galactik for Marius Allamine 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
The Aiglons deal is off
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Mahamat Moustapha reports back to US Moursal with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Market14 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 The request is on a desk at US Moursal, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Ali Doungous is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Youssouf Abba has improved at 24, 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A row about effort at US Moursal
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Sofiane El Haddadi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
“I watch every US Moursal 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
The Oumar Haroun talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. US Moursal know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Back issues
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Steady
Market7 Sep 2026
AS PSI come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and US Moursal did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market7 Sep 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 US Moursal can pretend not to have heard.
Market7 Sep 2026
The deal that would have taken Idriss Abakar to Foullah Edifice has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to US Moursal with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 0 in, 7 out at US Moursal
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 0 arrived, 7 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Squad7 Sep 2026
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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Sofiane El Haddadi 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A row about effort at US Moursal
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mahamat Moustapha was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Narcisse Bechir commits to US Moursal for another 3 years.
Market7 Sep 2026
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. US Moursal will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
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Steady
Market31 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 US Moursal can pretend not to have heard.
Market31 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at US Moursal training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sofiane El Haddadi 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Marius Allamine 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
The name of Abdoulaye Bechir has come up in conversations US Moursal were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Hassan Tokindang and US Moursal agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Adam Mbainaissem, and the manager let it.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at US Moursal, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Steady
Market24 Aug 2026
The offer from AS DGSSIE for Idriss Abakar 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.
Market24 Aug 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 US Moursal, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market24 Aug 2026
The name of Saleh Souleymane has come up in conversations US Moursal were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Sofiane El Haddadi 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Ezechiel 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.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ali Doungous, and the manager let it.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Foullah Edifice 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Issa Tokindang and US Moursal agree another 3 years.
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Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
The offer from Galactik for Oumar Haroun 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.
Market17 Aug 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 US Moursal, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Sofiane El Haddadi 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Mahamat 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
The phone has started ringing about Hassan Tokindang again, and this time the name on the line is Aiglons. US Moursal are listening politely and promising nothing.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Aiglons 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
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Djibrine Abakar and US Moursal agree another 3 years.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“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.
Market17 Aug 2026
7 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.
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Steady
Market3 Aug 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 US Moursal, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Oumar Haroun 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. US Moursal have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Sofiane El Haddadi 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
24 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
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 US Moursal, another week without a signature from Idriss Abakar.