Abdul Appiah

Central Defender - Stade Renard de Melong
24 Sep 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Abdul Appiah

97 Edition

The Stade Renard de Melong Chronicle

5 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Trésor Mbengue damages knee ligaments — 22 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 22 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market

Samuel Isife puts it in writing

“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 The request is on a desk at Stade Renard de Melong, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Sid Ali Lamri 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 Stade Renard de Melong this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Stade Renard de Melong training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Joe Cole Mbella 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.

Loan watch

Browdon Kuissi Fossi has seen enough of Canon Yaounde

“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 Stade Renard de Melong, and 0 appearances in 17 say he has earned the hearing.

Squad

Home is on Abdul Appiah's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Stade Renard de Melong are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

In brief

Back issues
89 Edition

The Stade Renard de Melong Chronicle

10 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Usman Sadiq damages knee ligaments — 25 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 25 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market

Jonathan Noundem asks to leave Stade Renard de Melong

“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.

Squad

Moustapha Bissene 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 Stade Renard de Melong this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Stade Renard de Melong training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gastón Costas 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.

Squad

7 new faces, and Stade Renard de Melong are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

Loan watch

Browdon Kuissi Fossi has seen enough of Canon Yaounde

“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 Stade Renard de Melong, and 0 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.

In brief

88 Edition

The Stade Renard de Melong Chronicle

3 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Usman Sadiq damages knee ligaments — 32 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 32 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

The terraces

Anger at Stade Renard de Melong spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Market

Thorgan Essiane 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 Stade Renard de Melong can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Tempers go at Stade Renard de Melong

Sid Ali Lamri 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.

Squad

Jean-Claude Kameni Ngamalieu 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.

Market

Still no ink between Stade Renard de Melong and Usman Sadiq

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Stade Renard de Melong, another week without a signature from Usman Sadiq.

In brief