Marked for Ahmat Adoum
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Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Renaissance have done the hard part with AS Algoy, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Ahmat Adoum 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 targets31 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to Foullah Edifice: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Renaissance would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Yaya Kerim called up by his country
A window away with the national side, and a shirt at Renaissance that briefly doubles as an advertisement. A call-up flatters the player and the club that built him in the same breath.
Back issues
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Steady
The terraces24 Aug 2026
Renaissance sell a favourite for $41.0K
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Ousmane Hissein was one of the reasons people came, and $41.0K does not replace that by itself.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The deal with AS Etat Major is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Squad24 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 Renaissance this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market24 Aug 2026
Ousmane Hissein has left for AS DGSSIE in a $41.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Renaissance training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Youssef Dalouzi 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Renaissance are still strangers to each other
5 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
“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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Galactik come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and AS Algoy did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Adam Oumar and AS Algoy agree another 2 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at AS Algoy
Ahmat Adoum 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A row about effort at AS Algoy
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Oumar Haroun was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Brahim Souleymane has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market3 Aug 2026
“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.
Market3 Aug 2026
US Moursal come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and AS Algoy did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A falling-out at AS Algoy
Ahmat Adoum and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market3 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: CotonTchad have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Saleh Haroun. The answer from AS Algoy has not changed — yet.
Market3 Aug 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
Ahmat Adoum knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at AS Algoy, and both men came out saying it was fine.