Marked for Hassan Ngaradoumbe
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad12 Jul 2027
Idriss Bechir breaks a bone — 82 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 82 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Hassan Tokindang 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.
Squad12 Jul 2027
A muscle injury sidelines Hassan Hissein for 17 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. US Moursal will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad28 Jun 2027
Idriss Bechir breaks a bone — 96 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 96 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Loan watch28 Jun 2027
“I watch every US Moursal 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.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Adam 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.
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Steady
Squad21 Jun 2027
Idriss Bechir breaks a bone — 103 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 103 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market21 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.
Squad21 Jun 2027
He is 19, he is averaging 7.02, and older professionals have started passing to him in the difficult minutes. That last part is the real scouting report.
Market21 Jun 2027
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.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Hassan Ngaradoumbe 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.
Loan watch21 Jun 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 US Moursal, and 11 appearances in 45 say he has earned the hearing.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad14 Jun 2027
Idriss Bechir breaks a bone — 110 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 110 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market14 Jun 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Words at US Moursal training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Hassan Ngaradoumbe 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market7 Jun 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market7 Jun 2027
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.
Squad7 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 US Moursal this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Words at US Moursal training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ezechiel Doungous 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
Saleh Bechir 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.
Squad7 Jun 2027
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Hassan Ngaradoumbe trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market31 May 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.
Squad31 May 2027
Words at US Moursal training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Hassan Ngaradoumbe 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 May 2027
The manager makes an example of Mahamat Abakar
“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.
Loan watch31 May 2027
“I did not go to Gazelle to sit and watch. I want to come back to US Moursal and fight for my place.” 7 appearances in 42 matches say the rest.
Squad31 May 2027
Adam 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.
Squad31 May 2027
Hassan Tokindang 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad24 May 2027
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” US Moursal have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad24 May 2027
At 19, Saleh Bechir is already the best thing here
An average of 7.02 in a first team he is several years too young for. US Moursal have something, and by now the whole division has noticed.
Squad24 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 US Moursal this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market3 May 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 US Moursal, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad3 May 2027
“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.
Squad3 May 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ezechiel Abakar, and the manager let it.
Squad3 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 US Moursal this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Loan watch3 May 2027
“I did not go to Gazelle to sit and watch. I want to come back to US Moursal and fight for my place.” 7 appearances in 38 matches say the rest.
Squad3 May 2027
Idriss 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad26 Apr 2027
He is 18, he is averaging 7.02, and older professionals have started passing to him in the difficult minutes. That last part is the real scouting report.
Squad26 Apr 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.
Loan watch26 Apr 2027
“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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market19 Apr 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at US Moursal is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad19 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 US Moursal this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Words at US Moursal training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ezechiel Doungous 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market12 Apr 2027
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Issa Ngaradoumbe will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around US Moursal the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Words at US Moursal training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Hassan Ngaradoumbe 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.
Squad12 Apr 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
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 US Moursal, and it is not being withdrawn.
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 US Moursal this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Apr 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Ezechiel Abakar and US Moursal agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad5 Apr 2027
The manager makes an example of Hassan 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.
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 US Moursal, and 7 appearances in 34 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Hassan Doungous named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Hassan Doungous is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
Market5 Apr 2027
The loan was meant to give him football. 0 games and 0 goals later he is back at US Moursal no further forward, and everybody involved will explain why it was not their doing.
Market5 Apr 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Hassan Ngaradoumbe’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Loan watch5 Apr 2027
24 starts and an average of 6.62. He went there to play and he is playing, which is the only thing a loan was ever for.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Player ratings22 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 30. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market22 Mar 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at US Moursal is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Hassan Ngaradoumbe 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.
Squad22 Mar 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ezechiel Allamine and US Moursal agree another 3 years.
Loan watch22 Mar 2027
“I watch every US Moursal 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.
Player ratings22 Mar 2027
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.71 on the card, and the US Moursal support went home talking about one name.
Squad22 Mar 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 US Moursal this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad22 Mar 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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 44. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market15 Mar 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at US Moursal is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Match13 Mar 2027
Oumar Mbaiguedem scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Aiglons, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Words at US Moursal training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Hassan Ngaradoumbe 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.
Squad15 Mar 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.
Squad15 Mar 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 US Moursal this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad15 Mar 2027
One booking too many, and Dia Syayid sits out. US Moursal lose him for the sort of avoidable reason that makes a manager's week longer.
Market15 Mar 2027
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Hassan Tokindang signs something — a contract at US Moursal or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
Chances created: 7. 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 35. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Issa Abakar breaks a bone — 62 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 62 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market8 Mar 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 US Moursal, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Adam Ndoram and US Moursal agree another 4 years.
Squad8 Mar 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.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Saleh Bechir is the division's best young player this month
At 18 he has spent a month being better than everybody his age in the league, which is a different and harder thing than one good afternoon. US Moursal will try very hard not to make too much of it.
Loan watch8 Mar 2027
“I watch every US Moursal 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.
Match6 Mar 2027
Point won or two lost for US Moursal?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against AS Etat Major? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
Market8 Mar 2027
“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 Issa Abakar.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad1 Mar 2027
Issa Abakar breaks a bone — 69 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 69 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match27 Feb 2027
3‑0, and Hassan Tokindang took the headlines on an afternoon when everything US Moursal tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Player ratings1 Mar 2027
No sign of nerves from Saleh Bechir at 18 — 8.11
The hardest thing about being 18 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Saleh Bechir did not need any: 8.11, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad1 Mar 2027
At 18, Saleh Bechir is already the best thing here
An average of 7.01 in a first team he is several years too young for. US Moursal have something, and by now the whole division has noticed.
Market1 Mar 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at US Moursal is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Words at US Moursal training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Hassan Ngaradoumbe 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 terraces1 Mar 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 18-year-old it feels ownership of. Saleh Bechir 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.
Squad1 Mar 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 ratings1 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad22 Feb 2027
Issa Abakar breaks a bone — 76 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 76 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market22 Feb 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around US Moursal they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Hassan Ngaradoumbe 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.
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 US Moursal, and 0 appearances in 28 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad22 Feb 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 US Moursal this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad22 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Issa Abakar
“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.
Market22 Feb 2027
The clock does Issa Abakar’s negotiating for him
1 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee US Moursal could ask drops and the wages Issa Abakar can ask rise.
Loan watch22 Feb 2027
20 starts now, an average of 6.55, and the team sheet at AS DGSSIE has stopped being a question. Exactly what everybody signed up for.
Loan watch22 Feb 2027
18 starts and an average of 6.65. He went there to play and he is playing, which is the only thing a loan was ever for.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad8 Feb 2027
Issa Abakar breaks a bone — 90 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 90 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
No sign of nerves from Saleh Bechir at 18 — 7.92
The hardest thing about being 18 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Saleh Bechir did not need any: 7.92, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market8 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 US Moursal can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
The US Moursal board want somebody sold
The instruction has come from upstairs rather than from the dugout, which is the version of this conversation no manager enjoys. Somebody in that squad is now available whether the man who picks the team thinks so or not.
Market8 Feb 2027
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Ezechiel Allamine reports back to US Moursal with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
The terraces8 Feb 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 18-year-old it feels ownership of. Issa Ngaradoumbe 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 Feb 2027
A 2‑0 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Hassan Ngaradoumbe 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad1 Feb 2027
Issa Abakar breaks a bone — 97 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 97 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
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 US Moursal, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad1 Feb 2027
The medical room confirms 36 days on the sidelines for Mahamat Abakar, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Market1 Feb 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at US Moursal is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market1 Feb 2027
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. US Moursal will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Squad1 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Hassan Tokindang, and the manager let it.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Words at US Moursal training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Hassan Ngaradoumbe 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 watch1 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 US Moursal, and 11 appearances in 25 say he has earned the hearing.
Player ratings1 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 13. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad18 Jan 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Hassan Hissein
17 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. US Moursal lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Issa Abakar breaks a bone — 111 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 111 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Words at US Moursal training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Hassan Ngaradoumbe 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ezechiel Abakar, and the manager let it.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.63 on the card, and the US Moursal support went home talking about one name.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 11. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad4 Jan 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Hassan Hissein
31 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. US Moursal lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad4 Jan 2027
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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Adam Ndoram is named among the best
There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. US Moursal will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.
Market4 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
The medical room confirms 64 days on the sidelines for Mahamat Abakar, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Match2 Jan 2027
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Market4 Jan 2027
Add another name to the list: CotonTchad have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Abdramane Doungous. The answer from US Moursal has not changed — yet.
Market4 Jan 2027
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Idriss Bechir has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at US Moursal.
Market4 Jan 2027
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.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad21 Dec 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Hassan Hissein
45 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. US Moursal lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
The terraces21 Dec 2026
At 18 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words at US Moursal training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Hassan Ngaradoumbe 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 Dec 2026
“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 US Moursal, and 5 appearances in 17 say he has earned the hearing.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
7.50, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. US Moursal had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
Squad21 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Idriss Moustapha, and the manager let it.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 13. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad30 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Hassan Hissein
66 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. US Moursal lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market30 Nov 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.
Match28 Nov 2026
Still nobody has beaten US Moursal
The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Match28 Nov 2026
AS Algoy made US Moursal work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑2 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Marked 8.76 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad30 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Hassan Doungous, and the manager let it.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Loan watch30 Nov 2026
“I did not go to Foullah Edifice to sit and watch. I want to come back to US Moursal and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 16 matches say the rest.
Squad30 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 US Moursal this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad23 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Hassan Hissein
73 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. US Moursal lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Loan watch23 Nov 2026
“I watch every US Moursal game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Aiglons runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Adam 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.
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Upbeat
Squad9 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Hassan Hissein
87 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. US Moursal lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match4 Nov 2026
The small margins put US Moursal out
Out, 0‑0 to Elect Sport, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
A brace, and Hassan Ngaradoumbe takes the afternoon — 8.97
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Hassan Ngaradoumbe provided it, and the 8.97 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Hassan Tokindang 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.
Match7 Nov 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Hassan Ngaradoumbe. 3‑2 against AS DGSSIE, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Marked 8.66 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words at US Moursal training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Hassan Ngaradoumbe 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.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
It was his to settle and he did not settle it. A long walk back to the halfway line, and a considerably longer week.
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Upbeat
Squad26 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Hassan Hissein
101 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. US Moursal lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match24 Oct 2026
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 4‑0 against Galactik, and it could have been more.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
A brace, and Issa Abakar takes the afternoon — 8.01
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Issa Abakar provided it, and the 8.01 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Saleh Bechir, 18, plays like he has been here for years — 7.88
A mark of 7.88 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 18-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad26 Oct 2026
At 25 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 4 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
A performance of 8.21 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
A performance of 8.04 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad26 Oct 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.
Loan watch26 Oct 2026
“I did not go to Aiglons to sit and watch. I want to come back to US Moursal and fight for my place.” 2 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.
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Steady
Squad19 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Hassan Hissein
108 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. US Moursal lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match17 Oct 2026
6‑0, and Mahamat Abakar took the headlines on an afternoon when everything US Moursal tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
A brace, and Narcisse Moustapha takes the afternoon — 9.21
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Narcisse Moustapha provided it, and the 9.21 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market19 Oct 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around US Moursal they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
A brace, and Mahamat Abakar takes the afternoon — 7.98
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Mahamat Abakar provided it, and the 7.98 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Saleh Bechir, 18, plays like he has been here for years — 8.23
A mark of 8.23 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 18-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Hassan Hissein is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Match17 Oct 2026
6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about US Moursal and Stars Jeunes Talents in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Hassan Doungous has improved at 27, 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.
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Crisis
Squad12 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Hassan Hissein
115 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. US Moursal lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match10 Oct 2026
0‑3 against CotonTchad, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Adam Allamine is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
At 24 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 4 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 11 actions, 6.43, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Adam Ndoram 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.
Boardroom12 Oct 2026
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
Loan watch12 Oct 2026
“I watch every US Moursal game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Aiglons runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Market12 Oct 2026
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.
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Steady
Market14 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
Aiglons 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Adam Allamine is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Hassan Tokindang 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.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
“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 US Moursal, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ezechiel Doungous, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Market3 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.
Squad3 Aug 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 US Moursal this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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
Hassan Ngaradoumbe 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Market3 Aug 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Ezechiel Allamine has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at US Moursal.