The AS Etat Major Post
Market10 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Saleh 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 AS Etat Major can pretend not to have heard.
Market10 Aug 2026
Moussa Hissein turns Foullah Edifice down
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
No thanks: Bicto Tyonga rejects the move
AS Etat Major had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Foullah Edifice, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Ahmat Hissein signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ahmat Hissein and AS Etat Major agree another 2 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at AS Etat Major
Ahmat Hissein and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A row about effort at AS Etat Major
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Youssouf Bechir was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market10 Aug 2026
Hassan Mahamat steps up from the AS Etat Major academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Hassan Mahamat 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.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
Abdramane Allamine 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.
In brief
- Transfer targets AS Etat Major try to borrow Bicto Tyonga
- The dugout Ahmat Hissein knocks on the manager's door
- Squad Questions about Djibrine Mbaiguedem on the training pitch