The Fortuna Mfou Herald
Boardroom6 Sep 2032
Fortuna Mfou run out of patience with the manager
The end came on a Tuesday, as these things usually do: a short meeting, a shorter statement, and the manager clearing his office by noon. Football’s cruellest ritual, performed to schedule.
The terraces6 Sep 2032
Supporters organise against the Fortuna Mfou board
A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.
Boardroom6 Sep 2032
Fortuna Mfou have nobody left to take training
Not an interim appointment — an institution with an empty coaching office. Somebody unfamiliar will run the sessions this week, and the question of how a club gets into this state is one the board will be asked and will not answer.
Boardroom6 Sep 2032
Interim Coach minds the shop at Fortuna Mfou
“I am not thinking past Saturday, and I would advise nobody else to.” The caretaker’s first rule is to pretend the job is small; Interim Coach recited it perfectly.
Market6 Sep 2032
Boris Siani 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 The request is on a desk at Fortuna Mfou, and it is not being withdrawn.
Boardroom6 Sep 2032
Deadline passes with 13 signed and 18 gone
That is the business done at Fortuna Mfou until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Transfer targets6 Sep 2032
Fortuna Mfou make their move for Landry Onguene
$17.0K on the table at Cotonsport Garoua. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Transfer targets6 Sep 2032
Door shut on Abdul Aziz Moubarak
Fortuna Mfou asked and Cotonsport Garoua said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market6 Sep 2032
One of our own: Patrick Mbeumo joins the Fortuna Mfou first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Patrick Mbeumo is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Fortuna Mfou promote Jean Ondoa from within
- Market Fortuna Mfou promote Olivier Embolo from within
- Squad Olivier Ngamaleu stays put