Marked for Marius Souleymane
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad26 Jun 2028
Marius Souleymane damages knee ligaments — 20 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 20 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.
Market26 Jun 2028
“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.
The dugout26 Jun 2028
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Squad26 Jun 2028
Yannick Saleh 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.
Transfer targets26 Jun 2028
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Foullah Edifice have kept their man, and Aiglons go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad26 Jun 2028
A row about effort at Aiglons
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ahmat Abba was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout26 Jun 2028
“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.
The dugout26 Jun 2028
Ahmat Abba knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Ahmat Abba trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market26 Jun 2028
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Christian Ramadjingaye’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Steady
Squad19 Jun 2028
Marius Souleymane damages knee ligaments — 27 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 27 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.
The dugout19 Jun 2028
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Aiglons may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Transfer targets19 Jun 2028
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Aiglons have done the hard part with Renaissance, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad19 Jun 2028
A falling-out at Aiglons
Christian Ramadjingaye and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad19 Jun 2028
19 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad19 Jun 2028
Words at Aiglons training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yannick Saleh 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.
The dugout19 Jun 2028
Saleh Hissein 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 Jun 2028
The name of Yannick Saleh keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Aiglons say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout19 Jun 2028
“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.
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Steady
Squad12 Jun 2028
34 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Aiglons lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Transfer targets12 Jun 2028
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Aiglons have done the hard part with Galactik, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad12 Jun 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Aiglons this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Jun 2028
A row about effort at Aiglons
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Yannick Saleh was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout12 Jun 2028
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The dugout12 Jun 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Marius Souleymane, and the manager let it.
Market12 Jun 2028
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Idriss Allamine has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Aiglons.
The dugout12 Jun 2028
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Aiglons, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market12 Jun 2028
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Aiglons know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Steady
Transfer targets5 Jun 2028
Everything agreed with Foullah Edifice, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
The dugout5 Jun 2028
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Squad5 Jun 2028
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Fabien Djedanoum and Aiglons agree another 4 years.
Squad5 Jun 2028
Words exchanged at Aiglons
Yannick Saleh 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.
Market5 Jun 2028
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Aiglons has been clear about where Narcisse Doungous stands, which is more than many ever get.
The dugout5 Jun 2028
“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.
Market5 Jun 2028
The name of Issa Hassaballah keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Aiglons say nothing, which says plenty.
Boardroom5 Jun 2028
The window opens at Aiglons
A month in which every rumour is possible and most of them are nonsense. The manager has a list, the board has a number, and neither is telling the other the whole of it.
Squad5 Jun 2028
“I will know when it is time. I am not there yet.” Idriss Allamine is 35, with 8 appearances behind him, and Aiglons will have to plan for whichever answer comes.
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The dugout1 May 2028
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Squad1 May 2028
Yannick Saleh 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 May 2028
Ahmat Abba 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.
The dugout1 May 2028
“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.
The dugout1 May 2028
Ahmat Abba 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.
Market1 May 2028
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Christian Ramadjingaye’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Steady
The dugout24 Apr 2028
“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.
Squad24 Apr 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Aiglons this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout24 Apr 2028
“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.
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Steady
Squad17 Apr 2028
A falling-out at Aiglons
Yannick Saleh and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout17 Apr 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Issa Djimet, and the manager let it.
The dugout17 Apr 2028
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Aiglons, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Steady
Squad20 Mar 2028
A falling-out at Aiglons
Yannick Saleh and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match18 Mar 2028
It finished 2‑1, and it was Issa Hassaballah’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Aiglons.
Player ratings20 Mar 2028
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.14, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad20 Mar 2028
Ahmat Abba 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.
The dugout20 Mar 2028
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 2‑1, Marius Tokindang could afford to be generous.
Player ratings20 Mar 2028
Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout20 Mar 2028
“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.
The dugout20 Mar 2028
Nobody at Aiglons is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
Market20 Mar 2028
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Aiglons know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Upbeat
Match4 Mar 2028
3‑0, and Marius Bechir took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Aiglons tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Player ratings6 Mar 2028
A brace, and Marius Bechir takes the afternoon — 8.85
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Marius Bechir provided it, and the 8.85 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings6 Mar 2028
Abdoulaye Haroun, 16, plays like he has been here for years — 7.69
A mark of 7.69 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 16-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad6 Mar 2028
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Alboury Aboubakar commits to Aiglons for another 3 years.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Yannick Saleh 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.
The terraces6 Mar 2028
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 16-year-old it feels ownership of. Abdoulaye Haroun 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.
The dugout6 Mar 2028
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The dugout6 Mar 2028
“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.
Squad6 Mar 2028
A place in the month's best eleven for Saleh Hissein
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Saleh Hissein has come out of that comparison in the side, and Aiglons have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
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Crisis
Squad28 Feb 2028
At 15, Djibrine Ndoram is already the best thing here
An average of 6.59 in a first team he is several years too young for. Aiglons have something, and by now the whole division has noticed.
Squad28 Feb 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Aiglons this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match26 Feb 2028
Aiglons cannot find the net
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.
Match26 Feb 2028
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Player ratings28 Feb 2028
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout28 Feb 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Christian Ramadjingaye, and the manager let it.
Squad28 Feb 2028
45 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
The dugout28 Feb 2028
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑2 Marius Tokindang left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout28 Feb 2028
“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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Upbeat
Player ratings7 Feb 2028
Two goals and a mark of 8.62 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Boardroom7 Feb 2028
Deadline passes with 3 signed and 1 gone
That is the business done at Aiglons until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Match5 Feb 2028
A 3‑1 win over AS Etat Major, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The terraces7 Feb 2028
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Fabien Djedanoum 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.
The dugout7 Feb 2028
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The dugout7 Feb 2028
The manager makes an example of Saleh Hissein
“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.
Squad7 Feb 2028
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Marius Souleymane is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Brahim Mbainaissem 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 Feb 2028
A place in the month's best eleven for Fabien Djedanoum
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Fabien Djedanoum has come out of that comparison in the side, and Aiglons have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
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Steady
Squad24 Jan 2028
A falling-out at Aiglons
Yannick Saleh and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout24 Jan 2028
“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.
Looking ahead24 Jan 2028
AS Algoy next, and one man in the Aiglons dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
Market24 Jan 2028
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Aiglons know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout24 Jan 2028
Abdoulaye Haroun 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.
Looking ahead24 Jan 2028
Next up at home: AS Algoy, who go into it in position 10. The kind of fixture a season is quietly built on or quietly loses its shape in.
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Crisis
Squad17 Jan 2028
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 10 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match15 Jan 2028
Chastening afternoon for Aiglons
A 1‑4 beating by Renaissance was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Squad17 Jan 2028
Words exchanged at Aiglons
Yannick Saleh 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.
Market17 Jan 2028
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Brahim Moustapha has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market17 Jan 2028
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Moussa Tokindang is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market17 Jan 2028
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ahmat Ngaradoumbe has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
The dugout17 Jan 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Christian Ramadjingaye, and the manager let it.
Boardroom17 Jan 2028
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
The dugout17 Jan 2028
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑4, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
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Steady
Player ratings10 Jan 2028
Marked 7.77 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Squad10 Jan 2028
Yannick Saleh 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.
The terraces10 Jan 2028
He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
The dugout10 Jan 2028
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Match8 Jan 2028
Level with 91 minutes on the clock, after an afternoon Aiglons had all but put away. AS DGSSIE will call it a point earned; the home dressing room will call it two given away, and both of them are right.
Player ratings10 Jan 2028
Successful dribbles: 16. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Match8 Jan 2028
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
The dugout10 Jan 2028
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 1‑1 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
Looking ahead10 Jan 2028
The leaders are next for Aiglons
Renaissance top the table and they are coming into view. Nothing to lose, which is what every manager says before losing.
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Uneasy
Squad29 Nov 2027
Marius Souleymane damages knee ligaments — 16 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 16 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 ratings29 Nov 2027
Ezechiel Djimet, 15, plays like he has been here for years — 7.66
A mark of 7.66 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 15-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad29 Nov 2027
Words exchanged at Aiglons
Yannick Saleh 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.
Squad29 Nov 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Abdramane Souleymane and Aiglons agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Match27 Nov 2027
A 1‑1 draw with Elect Sport leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
The dugout29 Nov 2027
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Marius Tokindang was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the Aiglons dressing room was either.
Player ratings29 Nov 2027
Successful dribbles: 12. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout29 Nov 2027
Nobody at Aiglons is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
The dugout29 Nov 2027
Somebody else is better right now than Issa Djimet
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
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Crisis
Squad22 Nov 2027
23 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Aiglons lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad22 Nov 2027
A falling-out at Aiglons
Yannick Saleh and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match20 Nov 2027
Foullah Edifice left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout22 Nov 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.
Squad22 Nov 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Marius Bechir and Aiglons agree another 3 years.
The dugout22 Nov 2027
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Marius Tokindang after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Looking ahead22 Nov 2027
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Elect Sport in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
The dugout22 Nov 2027
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Narcisse Doungous is on it.
Market22 Nov 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Aiglons know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Steady
Squad15 Nov 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Marius Souleymane
30 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Aiglons lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad15 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 Aiglons this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout15 Nov 2027
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The dugout15 Nov 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.
The dugout15 Nov 2027
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
Squad15 Nov 2027
A row about effort at Aiglons
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Issa Djimet was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market15 Nov 2027
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Brahim Bechir has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Aiglons.
The dugout15 Nov 2027
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Aiglons told Brahim Mbainaissem something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
Match13 Nov 2027
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. CotonTchad defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
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Steady
Squad8 Nov 2027
Marius Souleymane damages knee ligaments — 37 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 37 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.
Match3 Nov 2027
Aiglons bow out of the cup
AS Algoy go through and Aiglons go home, 0‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Player ratings8 Nov 2027
Marked 7.86 at 15, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Squad8 Nov 2027
The medical room confirms 44 days on the sidelines for Mahamat Ngaradoumbe, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad8 Nov 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Fabien Djedanoum commits to Aiglons for another 4 years.
The terraces8 Nov 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 15-year-old it feels ownership of. Ezechiel Djimet 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.
Match6 Nov 2027
AS Etat Major made Aiglons work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
The dugout8 Nov 2027
“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.
Player ratings8 Nov 2027
Successful dribbles: 18. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
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Steady
Squad1 Nov 2027
Marius Souleymane damages knee ligaments — 44 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 44 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.
Squad1 Nov 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Saleh Hissein and Aiglons agree another 3 years.
Player ratings1 Nov 2027
Successful dribbles: 19. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match30 Oct 2027
A goal on 94 minutes turned three points into one and a good afternoon into an argument about game management that will run until Saturday.
Squad1 Nov 2027
Words exchanged at Aiglons
Brahim Mbainaissem 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.
Match30 Oct 2027
It needed Ezechiel Hissein to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against AS Algoy, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The dugout1 Nov 2027
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Marius Tokindang chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.
Looking ahead1 Nov 2027
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Brahim Mbainaissem’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Aiglons needing him to play as if none of it matters.
Squad1 Nov 2027
Every debut is a small story about the future: Ali Mbaiguedem, 14 years old, off the academy pitches and into the first team. The parents in the stand will keep the programme.