Marked for Abdramane Abba
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad23 Nov 2026
Marius Djimet 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
A row about effort at US Moursal
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ezechiel Ndoram was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad23 Nov 2026
The medical room confirms 26 days on the sidelines for Moussa Mahamat, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Loan watch23 Nov 2026
“I did not go to Aiglons to sit and watch. I want to come back to US Moursal and fight for my place.” 4 appearances in 14 matches say the rest.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Abdoulaye Tokindang, and the manager let it.
Market23 Nov 2026
Jawad El Kaabi is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at US Moursal has been clear about where Jawad El Kaabi stands, which is more than many ever get.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at US Moursal, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market23 Nov 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.
Market23 Nov 2026
4 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what US Moursal could get for him.
Back issues
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Crisis
Market16 Nov 2026
Ahmat Abakar has one foot out of the door
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.
Boardroom16 Nov 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Ahmat Abakar has agreed terms with Gazelle for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Marius Djimet and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match14 Nov 2026
Renaissance left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words at US Moursal training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Narcisse 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 dugout16 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Djibrine Abba
“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 ratings16 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Loan watch16 Nov 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 2 appearances in 10 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑3 defeat, delivered by Mahamat Doungous to a room that had heard them before.
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Uneasy
Squad9 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.
Match4 Nov 2026
Elect Sport ended it 0‑7. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 33. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Market9 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.
The terraces9 Nov 2026
US Moursal are taken apart by Elect Sport — and the town wants answers
It finished 0-7. A cup exit is a disappointment; this was a public dismantling, and the difference between the two is the number of people who will still be talking about it in August.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
The hardest thing about being 16 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Djibrine Tokindang did not need any: 7.67, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Djibrine Abba commits to US Moursal for another 3 years.
Match4 Nov 2026
Nobody could stop scoring
7 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about US Moursal and Elect Sport in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Marius Djimet and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
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Crisis
Match31 Oct 2026
0‑5 to AS PSI, 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.
Market2 Nov 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
The accounts are being read more closely than the results. Wages before ambition is the order of business now, and the manager has been told so.
Match31 Oct 2026
No end in sight to US Moursal's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at US Moursal has to find a result from somewhere.
Market2 Nov 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Marius Ngaradoumbe will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around US Moursal the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Match31 Oct 2026
No clean sheets in sight for US Moursal
5 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Brahim Ndoram and US Moursal agree another 3 years.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at US Moursal training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ezechiel Ndoram 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.
Squad2 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.
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Crisis
Squad26 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 18 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Ali Mahamat, 17, plays like he has been here for years — 7.96
A mark of 7.96 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.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Age has not caught Ahmat Abakar yet — 8.06
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.06 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Match24 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for US Moursal
4 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Ezechiel Ndoram 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
Ali Mahamat scored, and precious little else went right: 2‑3 to Galactik, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Match24 Oct 2026
4 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.
Market26 Oct 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Djibrine Mbainaissem has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market26 Oct 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Saleh Haroun is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
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Crisis
Squad19 Oct 2026
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. US Moursal will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Djibrine Abakar, 16, plays like he has been here for years — 7.75
A mark of 7.75 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 16-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad19 Oct 2026
At 20 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Ezechiel Ndoram and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad19 Oct 2026
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.
Match17 Oct 2026
Stars Jeunes Talents left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Ezechiel Ndoram
“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 watch19 Oct 2026
“I did not go to AS DGSSIE to sit and watch. I want to come back to US Moursal and fight for my place.” 3 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑2 defeat, delivered by Mahamat Doungous to a room that had heard them before.
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Crisis
Squad5 Oct 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason US Moursal will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market5 Oct 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.
Market5 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Squad5 Oct 2026
At 22 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad5 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 US Moursal this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
3 academy graduates step up at US Moursal
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Match3 Oct 2026
Gazelle left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Market5 Oct 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Oumar Doungous is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
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Steady
Squad14 Sep 2026
Ezechiel Ndoram and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad14 Sep 2026
At 32 the improving is meant to be over, and it is not: 3 points better than a year ago. It happens to the ones who take the boring parts seriously.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Abdramane Abba falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
“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.
Market14 Sep 2026
The name of Ahmat Abakar keeps appearing in other people's back pages. US Moursal say nothing, which says plenty.
Market14 Sep 2026
6 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what US Moursal could get for him.
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Steady
Market31 Aug 2026
Ahmat Abakar hands in a written request
“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.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
The clubs have shaken hands with AS Algoy; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Market31 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
Business is business: Idriss Haroun goes
Gazelle paid $2.0K and US Moursal took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Ezechiel Ndoram 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 Aug 2026
Abdramane Abba 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. US Moursal will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Adam Ndoram, and the manager let it.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Somebody else’s transfer, somebody else’s headline. What it left at US Moursal is a friend gone and a player who keeps looking at the space.
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Steady
Market24 Aug 2026
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. US Moursal have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market24 Aug 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
The name of Idriss Haroun has come up in conversations US Moursal were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Ezechiel Ndoram and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Market24 Aug 2026
Abdramane Youssouf has left for Galactik in a $41.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at US Moursal training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abdramane Abba 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.