Marked for Abdramane Abba
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
A debut Adam Allamine will not forget — 7.41
There is exactly one of these per career and it does not usually go like this. 1 on the scoresheet, 7.41 beside the name, and a crowd that had never seen him before chanting it by the end.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Abdramane Abba 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 Etat Major this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
At 26 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.
Match10 Oct 2026
1‑3 to Renaissance, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Hassan Adoum falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Loan watch12 Oct 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 Etat Major, and 0 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.
Market12 Oct 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Ahmat Mahamat’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Market12 Oct 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at AS Etat Major, another week without a signature from Mahamat Abba.
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Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
Marius Adoum 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 AS Algoy can pretend not to have heard.
Market17 Aug 2026
AS Algoy say no — this time
The offer from CotonTchad for Saleh Ngaradoumbe was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
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
Abdramane Abba has left for AS Etat Major in a $18.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Squad17 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
The name of Ezechiel Mahamat has come up in conversations AS Algoy were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
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Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
Aiglons come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and AS Etat Major did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Hassan Adoum in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AS Etat Major this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Ahmat Youssouf 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
The name of Oumar Abba has come up in conversations AS Etat Major were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Mahamat 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
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Steady
Market10 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 AS Algoy can pretend not to have heard.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Moussa Ndoram and AS Algoy agree another 2 years.
Squad10 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at AS Algoy training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Moussa 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Moussa Ndoram, and the manager let it.
Market10 Aug 2026
AS Etat Major 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.
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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 AS Algoy can pretend not to have heard.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A muscle injury sidelines Issa Haroun for 18 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. AS Algoy will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Issa Haroun 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.