“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 The request is on a desk at AS DGSSIE, and it is not being withdrawn.
Two goals and a mark of 9.16 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 7 goals between AS DGSSIE and AS Algoy, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Two or more conceded in each of the last 4 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Azizbek Usmonov 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.
Issa 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.
Nobody at AS DGSSIE is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
11 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
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.
“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 The request is on a desk at AS Etat Major, and it is not being withdrawn.
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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Words at AS Etat Major training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Hassan Adoum 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.
A mark of 7.76 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
“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 DGSSIE can pretend not to have heard.
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.
Ezechiel Djimet is 15, and for one weekend he was the best of everybody his age in the division. Nobody should build a career on it and everybody quietly does.
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. AS DGSSIE have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Dickson Sakabutu signs something — a contract at AS DGSSIE or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
In brief
SquadIssa Mahamat has become a man the manager trusts
A 5‑4 win over Stars Jeunes Talents, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
2 behind and going nowhere, until Issa Mahamat decided otherwise. Stars Jeunes Talents had done the hard part and then watched it come apart, and the noise at the final whistle was the sort a ground keeps.
It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. US Moursal kept coming because nothing stopped them, and AS DGSSIE will be asked about the last half hour all week.
A mark of 8.04 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Up for the corner, and Saleh Adoum delivers — 7.57
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Saleh Adoum scored, was marked 7.57, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Two or more conceded in each of the last 4 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Noël Allaramadji is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” AS DGSSIE have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
At 24 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.
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Dickson Sakabutu. 1‑0 against Foullah Edifice, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
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.
Hassan Adoum 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.
At 27 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.
5 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.
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Hassan Allamine has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Oumar Hissein is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at AS DGSSIE has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
A season-long audition: AS PSI still own him, but the shirt and the minutes are AS DGSSIE's to give. A loan is a bet both clubs believe they are winning.
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at AS DGSSIE has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.