Marked for Abdramane Allamine
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Crisis
Match30 Oct 2027
22 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 ratings1 Nov 2027
Successful dribbles: 33. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Boardroom1 Nov 2027
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Market1 Nov 2027
Issa Ndoram hands in a written request
“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 Nov 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Stars Jeunes Talents this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match30 Oct 2027
4 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.
Match30 Oct 2027
Galactik left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad1 Nov 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Abdoulaye Bechir, and the manager let it.
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Crisis
Match9 Oct 2027
19 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
The terraces11 Oct 2027
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Match9 Oct 2027
0‑3 to Gazelle, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Issa Mbaiguedem 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.
Match9 Oct 2027
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Words at Stars Jeunes Talents training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Youssouf Mbaiguedem 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.
Squad11 Oct 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.
Boardroom11 Oct 2027
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
Squad11 Oct 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Ahmat Oumar and Stars Jeunes Talents agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
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Crisis
Market9 Aug 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.
Squad9 Aug 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Stars Jeunes Talents this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Narcisse Haroun 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.
Squad9 Aug 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market9 Aug 2027
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Issa Allamine leaves Stars Jeunes Talents the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
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The terraces12 Jul 2027
Supporters turn on the $23.0K sale of Brahim Tokindang
He is going to Foullah Edifice, the club has $23.0K it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.
Market12 Jul 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.
Market12 Jul 2027
Aiglons paid $5.0K and Stars Jeunes Talents took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Market12 Jul 2027
Narcisse Abakar has left for AS PSI in a $4.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Abdoulaye Bechir 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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Boardroom28 Jun 2027
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Market28 Jun 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.
The terraces28 Jun 2027
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Djibrine Djimet was one of the reasons people came, and $19.0K does not replace that by itself.
Market28 Jun 2027
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Abdoulaye Mahamat will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Stars Jeunes Talents the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad28 Jun 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Stars Jeunes Talents this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market28 Jun 2027
US Moursal are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Stars Jeunes Talents will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Loan watch28 Jun 2027
“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.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Words at Stars Jeunes Talents training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abdramane Allamine 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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Crisis
The terraces21 Jun 2027
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Market21 Jun 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.
Market21 Jun 2027
Gazelle 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.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Issa Mbaiguedem 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.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Words at Stars Jeunes Talents training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abdoulaye Bechir 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 watch21 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.” 6 appearances in 43 matches say the rest.
Squad21 Jun 2027
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Narcisse Abakar trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Market14 Jun 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.
Market14 Jun 2027
The offer from Foullah Edifice for Djibrine Djimet 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.
Squad14 Jun 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Stars Jeunes Talents this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Abdoulaye Bechir 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.
Market14 Jun 2027
US Moursal are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Stars Jeunes Talents will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
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Crisis
Match7 Jun 2027
Position 13 and 8 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Market7 Jun 2027
Elect Sport 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.
Market7 Jun 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.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Issa Mbaiguedem 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.
Market7 Jun 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Stars Jeunes Talents have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Words at Stars Jeunes Talents training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Djibrine Djimet 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.
Squad7 Jun 2027
A muscle injury sidelines Gerónimo Valfré for 20 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Stars Jeunes Talents will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Loan watch7 Jun 2027
“I watch every Stars Jeunes Talents game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at CotonTchad runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Djibrine Djimet 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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Market17 May 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.
Market17 May 2027
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Abdramane Allamine will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Stars Jeunes Talents the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad17 May 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Stars Jeunes Talents this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 May 2027
Djibrine Djimet 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.
Squad17 May 2027
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Stars Jeunes Talents are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
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Market19 Apr 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.
Market19 Apr 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Stars Jeunes Talents is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Issa Mbaiguedem 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.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Djibrine Djimet 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.
Market19 Apr 2027
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Hassan Ndoram signs something — a contract at Stars Jeunes Talents or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Market19 Apr 2027
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Gerónimo Valfré may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
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Uneasy
Match12 Apr 2027
Position 13 and 8 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Market12 Apr 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.
Squad12 Apr 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Stars Jeunes Talents this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Djibrine Djimet 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.
Squad12 Apr 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Stars Jeunes Talents, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad12 Apr 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Uneasy
Market5 Apr 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.
Market5 Apr 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.
Squad5 Apr 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Stars Jeunes Talents this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Loan watch5 Apr 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 6 appearances in 31 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad5 Apr 2027
6 new faces, and Stars Jeunes Talents 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.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Abdramane 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.
Market5 Apr 2027
The loan was meant to give him football. 1 games and 0 goals later he is back at Stars Jeunes Talents no further forward, and everybody involved will explain why it was not their doing.
Squad5 Apr 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.
Loan watch5 Apr 2027
6 appearances at Aiglons and the goals keep coming. Stars Jeunes Talents are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
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Crisis
Match20 Mar 2027
16 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 24 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market22 Mar 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.
Market22 Mar 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.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Issa Mbaiguedem 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.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Words at Stars Jeunes Talents training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Djibrine Djimet 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.
Squad22 Mar 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Marius Adoum and Stars Jeunes Talents agree another 2 years.
Loan watch22 Mar 2027
“I did not go to CotonTchad to sit and watch. I want to come back to Stars Jeunes Talents and fight for my place.” 1 appearances in 32 matches say the rest.
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Crisis
Match20 Feb 2027
The run now stands at 13, and the questions being asked around Stars Jeunes Talents are no longer polite ones.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 52 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market22 Feb 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.
Market22 Feb 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.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Issa Mbaiguedem 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.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Words at Stars Jeunes Talents training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abdoulaye Bechir 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.
Match20 Feb 2027
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad22 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Adam Youssouf, and the manager let it.
Loan watch22 Feb 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 0 appearances in 28 say he has earned the hearing.
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Crisis
Match6 Feb 2027
11 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 66 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market8 Feb 2027
Adam Youssouf hands in a written request
“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.
Market8 Feb 2027
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Djibrine Djimet will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Stars Jeunes Talents the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market8 Feb 2027
The deal that would have taken Marius Adoum to US Moursal has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Stars Jeunes Talents with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Issa Mbaiguedem 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.
Match6 Feb 2027
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
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Crisis
Squad1 Feb 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 73 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
The terraces1 Feb 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.
Match30 Jan 2027
10 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.
Match30 Jan 2027
1‑4 to Galactik, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Market1 Feb 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Stars Jeunes Talents may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market1 Feb 2027
The name of Djibrine Djimet has come up in conversations Stars Jeunes Talents were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad1 Feb 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Hassan Ndoram and Stars Jeunes Talents agree another 2 years.
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Uneasy
Squad16 Nov 2026
Idriss Bechir damages knee ligaments — 90 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 90 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 31. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market16 Nov 2026
Only the photograph left for Brahim Oumar
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Brahim Oumar will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Stars Jeunes Talents the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad16 Nov 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 Stars Jeunes Talents this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad16 Nov 2026
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 terraces16 Nov 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 15-year-old it feels ownership of. Abdramane Allamine has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match14 Nov 2026
A 1‑0 win over AS DGSSIE, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad16 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Adam Youssouf, and the manager let it.
Loan watch16 Nov 2026
“I watch every Stars Jeunes Talents 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.
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Squad9 Nov 2026
Idriss Bechir damages knee ligaments — 97 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 97 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match4 Nov 2026
AS DGSSIE ended it 1‑2. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Market9 Nov 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.
Match7 Nov 2026
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Stars Jeunes Talents are no longer polite ones.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A one-man rearguard from Adam Adoum
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
The hardest thing about being 15 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Abdramane Allamine did not need any: 7.68, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Moussa Abakar 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words at Stars Jeunes Talents training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Eky Taufik Febriyanto 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.
Match7 Nov 2026
AS PSI left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.