Marked for Oumar Souleymane
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 31. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
A defender's goal wins it for Aiglons — 7.95
1 for Alboury Aboubakar, marked 7.95, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Yannick Saleh is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Aiglons
Yannick Saleh and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad19 Oct 2026
At 28 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Aiglons training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Christian Ramadjingaye 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Yannick Masra. 2‑1 against Renaissance, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
The terraces19 Oct 2026
At 19 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.
In brief
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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The dugout
Ahmat Abderamane is still being punished for one mistake
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The dugout
Marius Mahamat dropped after a run of poor form
Back issues
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Crisis
Squad12 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 99 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match10 Oct 2026
Beaten 0‑6 by CotonTchad, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Match10 Oct 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between US Moursal and CotonTchad, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Youssouf 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Idriss Mahamat has improved at 26, which nobody expected
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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at US Moursal training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Saleh 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.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Moussa Adoum
“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.
Boardroom12 Oct 2026
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
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 US Moursal, and 2 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.
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Steady
Squad14 Sep 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 127 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market14 Sep 2026
The deal that would have taken Ali Haroun to AS DGSSIE has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to US Moursal with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Idriss Mahamat has improved at 26, which nobody expected
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.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
“I watch every US Moursal game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Aiglons runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Market14 Sep 2026
US Moursal spent the window trying to move Moussa Adoum on and nobody came. He trains with a squad that has already told him he is not part of it, and both sides now wait for the next one.
Market14 Sep 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Ali Souleymane’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Steady
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Aiglons close the window on a squad of their own making
17 in and 2 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Aiglons have done the hard part with Stars Jeunes Talents, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Aiglons training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Christian Ramadjingaye 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.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Aiglons will try again when the window opens; AS Etat Major may not be selling by then.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Not a new contract, not a new number: a new place in the manager’s thinking, which is the only promotion in football that actually matters. Moussa Youssouf has moved up it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Aiglons has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
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Steady
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Everything agreed with AS Etat Major, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Aiglons
Yannick Saleh 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
CotonTchad wanted more than $12.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Aiglons asked and Gazelle said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Aiglons
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Christian Ramadjingaye was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to US Moursal: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Market17 Aug 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Yannick Saleh’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Yannick Masra has company in his position
The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Yannick Masra keeps the shirt for now, at Aiglons's convenience rather than his own.