Marked for Ezechiel Bechir
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match14 Nov 2026
7 matches without a win for AS DGSSIE
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around AS DGSSIE are no longer polite ones.
Match14 Nov 2026
AS DGSSIE are shipping goals every week
Two or more conceded in each of the last 7 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Sherzod Majidov 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Moubarak Djibrine 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.
Match14 Nov 2026
0‑2 to Stars Jeunes Talents, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Adu Emmanuel 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.
Back issues
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Steady
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
A brace, and Romeo Mfeng Nanga takes the afternoon — 8.44
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Romeo Mfeng Nanga provided it, and the 8.44 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad12 Oct 2026
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.
Squad12 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Moubarak Djibrine commits to AS DGSSIE for another 3 years.
Match10 Oct 2026
Aiglons left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at AS DGSSIE training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Moubarak Djibrine 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
The name of Adu Emmanuel keeps appearing in other people's back pages. AS DGSSIE say nothing, which says plenty.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Chances created: 5. Not on the scoresheet and not remotely anonymous — a passing performance that pulled a defence apart without leaving a mark on the column that gets read.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 6. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Steady
Market10 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Adu Emmanuel commits to AS DGSSIE for another 2 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
5 new faces, and AS DGSSIE are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.