Marked for Adam Souleymane
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market18 Jan 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.
Market18 Jan 2027
Elect Sport come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and AS Etat Major did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market18 Jan 2027
The phone has started ringing about Ali Souleymane again, and this time the name on the line is AS DGSSIE. AS Etat Major are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Florent Warna 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.
Market18 Jan 2027
AS DGSSIE paid $2.0K and AS Etat Major took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Words at AS Etat Major training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Djibrine Hissein 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.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Match19 Dec 2026
Djibrine Hissein had done his part in building a 3-goal cushion. What happened after that was collective, and Galactik were allowed back into a match that had been finished with.
Market21 Dec 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 The request is on a desk at AS Etat Major, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad21 Dec 2026
The match ball belongs to Djibrine Hissein, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
No sign of nerves from Madaoua Tchiva at 19 — 8.06
The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Madaoua Tchiva did not need any: 8.06, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Florent Warna 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.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Djibrine Hissein was on a different afternoon to everybody else
9.66. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words at AS Etat Major training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Djibrine Hissein 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.
Match19 Dec 2026
It finished 4‑4, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Squad21 Dec 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.
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Uneasy
Match5 Dec 2026
10 matches without a win for AS Etat Major
The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around AS Etat Major are no longer polite ones.
Market7 Dec 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Abdramane Allamine will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around AS Etat Major the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market7 Dec 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.
Boardroom7 Dec 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Abdramane Allamine has agreed terms with Gazelle for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Florent Warna 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 Dec 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Adam Souleymane and AS Etat Major agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Marius Adoum 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.
Market7 Dec 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at AS Etat Major, another week without a signature from Abdramane Allamine.
Loan watch7 Dec 2026
“I watch every AS Etat Major game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Gazelle runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
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Crisis
Match4 Nov 2026
1‑4 against AS PSI, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Adam Youssouf breaks a bone — 32 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 32 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
The terraces9 Nov 2026
AS Etat Major are taken apart by AS PSI — and the town wants answers
It finished 1-4. A cup exit is a disappointment; this was a public dismantling, and the difference between the two is the number of people who will still be talking about it in August.
Match7 Nov 2026
6 matches without a win for AS Etat Major
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around AS Etat Major are no longer polite ones.
Squad9 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 AS Etat Major this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match7 Nov 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Abdramane Mbaiguedem 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 Nov 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.