The PWD Bamenda Gazette
Market11 Jun 2029
Terms done: Kadad Ning Che is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Aigle Royal de la Menoua waiting with a shirt. Nobody at PWD Bamenda is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market11 Jun 2029
PWD Bamenda turn down Aigle Royal de Moungo for Alain Sifor
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Transfer targets11 Jun 2029
Pah Gouhon due for a PWD Bamenda medical
Everything agreed with Goztepe, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad11 Jun 2029
A falling-out at PWD Bamenda
Vini Lontsi and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad11 Jun 2029
Words at PWD Bamenda training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abdel Razack 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 targets11 Jun 2029
PWD Bamenda rebuffed over Kelechi Nwakali
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Rivers United have kept their man, and PWD Bamenda go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market11 Jun 2029
Patrick Song steps up from the PWD Bamenda academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Patrick Song has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market11 Jun 2029
One of our own: Karl Bekale joins the PWD Bamenda first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Karl Bekale is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad11 Jun 2029
Joel Mbarga stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Joel Mbarga and PWD Bamenda agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
In brief
- The dugout When it matters, Vini Lontsi plays
- The dugout Léon Dilane Balomog asks for a word with the manager
- The dugout The manager makes Daniel Andela Mendje a promise