Marked for Abdramane Souleymane
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Uneasy
Squad7 Jun 2027
19 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. AS Algoy lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market7 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 The request is on a desk at AS Algoy, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Mahamat Souleymane 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 phone has started ringing about Adam Oumar again, and this time the name on the line is Aiglons. AS Algoy are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Mahamat Mbainaissem 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 watch7 Jun 2027
“I watch every AS Algoy 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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Uneasy
Squad31 May 2027
26 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. AS Algoy lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
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.
Market31 May 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at AS Algoy is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad31 May 2027
Mahamat 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.
Squad31 May 2027
Mahamat Souleymane 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.
Squad31 May 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ahmat Adoum, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Squad24 May 2027
33 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. AS Algoy lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market24 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.
Squad24 May 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” AS Algoy may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
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Uneasy
Squad17 May 2027
40 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. AS Algoy lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad17 May 2027
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” AS Algoy have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market17 May 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at AS Algoy is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
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 AS Algoy this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 May 2027
Words at AS Algoy training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mahamat Mbainaissem 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 watch17 May 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 AS Algoy, and 12 appearances in 40 say he has earned the hearing.
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Uneasy
Squad5 Apr 2027
Hassan Ngaradoumbe damages knee ligaments — 72 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 72 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.
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 AS Algoy, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market5 Apr 2027
Only the photograph left for Adam Oumar
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Adam Oumar will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around AS Algoy the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Adam Moustapha: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” AS Algoy have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Mahamat Souleymane 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.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Mahamat Mbainaissem 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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Uneasy
Market8 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.
Match6 Mar 2027
The wait goes on for AS Algoy
6 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 Mar 2027
Ahmat Souleymane: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” AS Algoy have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market8 Mar 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at AS Algoy is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mahamat Souleymane commits to AS Algoy for another 4 years.
Squad8 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 AS Algoy this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Words at AS Algoy training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mahamat Souleymane 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.
Match6 Mar 2027
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Market8 Mar 2027
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Moussa Mahamat signs something — a contract at AS Algoy or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Steady
Market8 Mar 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at AS PSI is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Match6 Mar 2027
Whatever happens, AS PSI do not lose
7 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Tempers go at AS PSI
Brahim Goudja 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 terraces8 Mar 2027
At 23 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.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Words at AS PSI training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Félix Noubara 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 ratings8 Mar 2027
Marked 7.49. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Market8 Mar 2027
He is 14, and nobody at AS PSI signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Haroun Abakar named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Haroun Abakar is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and AS PSI will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
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Crisis
Match13 Feb 2027
0‑3 to Elect Sport, 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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Mahamat 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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Mahamat Souleymane 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 watch15 Feb 2027
“I watch every AS Algoy game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at AS PSI runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad15 Feb 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.
Boardroom15 Feb 2027
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.
Squad15 Feb 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.
Market15 Feb 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Idriss Abba’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
A mark of 5.74 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.
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Uneasy
Match20 Jan 2027
The cup run ends for AS PSI
0‑1 against Renaissance, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Squad25 Jan 2027
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” AS PSI have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market25 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.
Match23 Jan 2027
The wait goes on for AS PSI
5 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Tempers go at AS PSI
Brahim Goudja 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 terraces25 Jan 2027
At 23 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Bark Abdramane, and the manager let it.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
A performance of 8.06 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Words at AS PSI training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Félix Noubara 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
Squad18 Jan 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 11 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match16 Jan 2027
1‑5 to CotonTchad, 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.
Market18 Jan 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 AS Algoy, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match16 Jan 2027
5 matches without a win for AS Algoy
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around AS Algoy are no longer polite ones.
Match16 Jan 2027
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between AS Algoy and CotonTchad, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Squad18 Jan 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 AS Algoy this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Words at AS Algoy training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mahamat Mbainaissem 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 Mahamat Souleymane, and the manager let it.
Boardroom18 Jan 2027
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.
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Steady
Market11 Jan 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Tempers go at AS PSI
Brahim Goudja 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 terraces11 Jan 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Haroun Abakar 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words at AS PSI training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Félix Noubara 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 ratings11 Jan 2027
Marked 7.39 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, AS PSI had the best player on the pitch.
Market11 Jan 2027
He is 14, and nobody at AS PSI signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Market11 Jan 2027
He is 14, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
Match9 Jan 2027
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Foullah Edifice 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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Crisis
Match19 Dec 2026
Beaten 0‑3 by AS PSI, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
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 Algoy, and it is not being withdrawn.
The terraces21 Dec 2026
The ground has had enough
“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 8 of the 35 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.
Squad21 Dec 2026
There were 6 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” AS Algoy may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad21 Dec 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 Algoy this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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.
Boardroom21 Dec 2026
Nobody left the AS Algoy dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
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 AS Algoy, and 0 appearances in 17 say he has earned the hearing.
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Upbeat
Squad21 Dec 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason AS PSI will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match19 Dec 2026
3‑0, and Issa Malloum Issa took the headlines on an afternoon when everything AS PSI tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
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 PSI, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.63 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.47, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Ali Issa Blagué was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.07. 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
Félix Noubara 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.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Ninety minutes of Joël Djingar at his very best
Marked 8.00. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at AS PSI.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Brahim Goudja is in the form of his life
A season average of 7.20 with 6 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
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Upbeat
Squad14 Dec 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason AS PSI will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Words at AS PSI training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Félix Noubara 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
“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.
Market14 Dec 2026
Abdramane Tokindang is 14, and AS PSI have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
Market14 Dec 2026
Ahmat Abba is 14, and AS PSI have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Bark Abdramane knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at AS PSI, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Upbeat
Squad7 Dec 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason AS PSI will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Marked 8.37 — 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Ali Bechir is the division's best young player this month
At 17 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. AS PSI will try very hard not to make too much of it.
Loan watch7 Dec 2026
“I watch every AS PSI 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Nassar Koulelengar is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
Match5 Dec 2026
It needed Brahim Goudja to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Renaissance, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
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Triumph
Squad30 Nov 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason AS PSI will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match28 Nov 2026
5‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Squad30 Nov 2026
The match ball belongs to Mahamat Adam Ali, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Tempers go at AS PSI
Brahim Goudja 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 ratings30 Nov 2026
A performance of 9.59 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
143% of the income goes out in wages at AS PSI
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
The terraces30 Nov 2026
At 23 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.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Ninety minutes of Brahim Goudja at his very best
Marked 8.63. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at AS PSI.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Ninety minutes of Ali Issa Blagué at his very best
Marked 8.41. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at AS PSI.
In brief
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Squad
Words at AS PSI training over how hard people work
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Player ratings
Nobody could get near Ali Bechir
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The terraces
The press cannot get enough of Mahamat Adam Ali
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad23 Nov 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 10 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match21 Nov 2026
Nowhere to hide for AS Algoy
1‑4 against Gazelle, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Market23 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 AS Algoy, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match21 Nov 2026
The wait goes on for AS Algoy
5 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.
Match21 Nov 2026
AS Algoy leaking at the back
5 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Mahamat 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Mahamat Souleymane 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
“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.
Boardroom23 Nov 2026
Nobody left the AS Algoy dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
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Upbeat
Squad23 Nov 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason AS PSI will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad23 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 PSI this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match21 Nov 2026
Beaten 2‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
A performance of 8.03 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words at AS PSI training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Brahim Mahamat 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
“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.
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Upbeat
Squad16 Nov 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason AS PSI will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market16 Nov 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 AS PSI can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Ali Bechir, 17, plays like he has been here for years — 8.14
A mark of 8.14 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 17-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Match14 Nov 2026
AS PSI make it 4 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now AS PSI have 4 straight wins of it.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Tempers go at AS PSI
Brahim Goudja 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.
Match14 Nov 2026
A 2‑0 win over Galactik, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
A performance of 8.16 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad16 Nov 2026
“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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
“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; AS PSI are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
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Upbeat
Squad9 Nov 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason AS PSI will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match4 Nov 2026
AS PSI through in the cup
A 2‑0 win over AS Etat Major, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Match7 Nov 2026
3‑0, and Mahamat Adam Ali took the headlines on an afternoon when everything AS PSI tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
There is exactly one of these per career and it does not usually go like this. 1 on the scoresheet, 8.12 beside the name, and a crowd that had never seen him before chanting it by the end.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
No sign of nerves from Ali Bechir at 17 — 8.38
The hardest thing about being 17 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Ali Bechir did not need any: 8.38, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Adam Haroun: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” AS PSI have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match7 Nov 2026
AS PSI cannot stop winning
3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
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 PSI this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Loan watch9 Nov 2026
“I did not go to AS DGSSIE to sit and watch. I want to come back to AS PSI and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 11 matches say the rest.
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Steady
Squad2 Nov 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason AS PSI will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match31 Oct 2026
3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.44, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Ali Bechir, 17, plays like he has been here for years — 8.06
A mark of 8.06 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 17-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
The AS PSI 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.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
143% of the income goes out in wages at AS PSI
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
The terraces2 Nov 2026
At 23 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.
Squad2 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at AS PSI training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Félix Noubara 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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Steady
Market26 Oct 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 Algoy, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad26 Oct 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 Algoy this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at AS Algoy training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mahamat Mbainaissem 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
Three points for AS Algoy, 1‑0 the final word against AS Etat Major in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad26 Oct 2026
“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 Oct 2026
“I did not go to AS PSI to sit and watch. I want to come back to AS Algoy and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Issa Mbaiguedem is the weekend's best young player
At 18 he is being measured against the rest of the division's kids and coming out in front. The senior version of this award is where the club would like this to lead.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 10. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market26 Oct 2026
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Hassan Ngaradoumbe may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
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Steady
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 41. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason AS PSI will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match24 Oct 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between AS PSI and Gazelle, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
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.
Match24 Oct 2026
3‑3, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Loan watch26 Oct 2026
“I watch every AS PSI 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.
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Crisis
Squad19 Oct 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason AS PSI will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market19 Oct 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Félix Noubara is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Mahamat Adam Ali 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.
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Steady
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 56. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason AS PSI will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Bark Abdramane is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 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
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 PSI this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Nassar Koulelengar has improved at 31, 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 watch12 Oct 2026
“I watch every AS PSI 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.
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Triumph
Squad5 Oct 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason AS PSI will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Ali Bechir could not have asked for more on his first appearance — 7.43
Debuts are survived rather than enjoyed. This one was enjoyed: 7.43, 0 goals, and a manager already being asked whether he starts again next week.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Gabkala Daba is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tempers go at AS PSI
Brahim Goudja 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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Graduation day at AS PSI
1 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad5 Oct 2026
At 30 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages eat 186% of everything AS PSI earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
The terraces5 Oct 2026
At 23 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
Three points for AS PSI, 2‑0 the final word against Aiglons in a contest settled by the finer margins.
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Steady
Market28 Sep 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 Algoy, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 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.
Squad28 Sep 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 Algoy this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad28 Sep 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason AS PSI will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Brahim Goudja is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 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.
Squad28 Sep 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 PSI this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason AS PSI will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Joël Djingar is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Tempers go at AS PSI
Brahim Goudja 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
Squad14 Sep 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason AS PSI will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Bark Abdramane is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad14 Sep 2026
At 30 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
He is 15, and nobody at AS PSI signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Market14 Sep 2026
He is 14, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Bark Abdramane knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at AS PSI, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Steady
Squad7 Sep 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason AS PSI will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market7 Sep 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 PSI, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at AS PSI training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Félix Noubara 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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Steady
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at AS PSI
Brahim Goudja 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ali Oumar commits to AS PSI for another 3 years.
Market24 Aug 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. AS PSI know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad24 Aug 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
A season-long look at somebody else’s player: Abdramane Souleymane arrives from AS Algoy with something to prove and a return ticket in the drawer. Good loans make everybody richer; this one starts Saturday.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Ali Oumar 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 Ali Oumar trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Steady
Squad17 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 AS Algoy this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market17 Aug 2026
AS PSI are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. AS Algoy will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Brahim Djimet and AS Algoy agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market17 Aug 2026
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at AS Algoy has been clear about where Djibrine Ngaradoumbe stands, which is more than many ever get.
Squad17 Aug 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Ali Doungous 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.