The Djoliba Courier
Market2 Oct 2028
Mamaye Coulibaly 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 The request is on a desk at Djoliba, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market2 Oct 2028
Only the photograph left for Kwadwo Nuhu
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Kwadwo Nuhu will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Djoliba the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom2 Oct 2028
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Djoliba
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
The dugout2 Oct 2028
Mahamadou Sissoko back under a manager who knows him
The new man at Djoliba has worked with Mahamadou Sissoko before and it went well. He arrives with a view of the player already formed, which is worth more than any pre-season.
Market2 Oct 2028
One of our own: Adama Keita joins the Djoliba first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Adama Keita is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market2 Oct 2028
Djoliba promote Lassana Kouyate from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Lassana Kouyate 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.
Squad2 Oct 2028
Sékou Diarra 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.
Boardroom2 Oct 2028
Djoliba board go back on their word
Something was promised, a deadline passed, and it did not arrive. Trust inside a football club is built over years and spent in an afternoon.
Squad2 Oct 2028
A step back for Youssou Coulibaly at Djoliba
Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.
In brief
- Squad Kwadwo Nuhu in a row with a teammate
- Boardroom Djoliba turn down the training-ground plan
- The dugout Sékou Diarra has become a man the manager trusts