“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.
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Marius Haroun chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Abdramane Abba trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
At 22 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.
Hassan Mbainaissem 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.
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
8 goals in 19 games at AS DGSSIE — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at AS Algoy updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at AS Algoy has been clear about where Issa Oumar stands, which is more than many ever get.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ahmat Abakar was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
“I watch every AS Algoy 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.
He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at AS Algoy pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Mahamat Mahamat has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 1‑1 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
Squad1 Mar 2027
The division's best last weekend was a AS Algoy man
It is a small honour and it is not nothing: somebody watched every match in the division and decided that Issa Oumar was the best thing in any of them.
0‑3 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ahmat Abakar was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
“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 9 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑3 Marius Haroun left the room before anybody could ask which.
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
AS Algoy have gone to US Moursal with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
AS Algoy asked and Fauve Azur Elite said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Moussa Mahamat was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.