The AS Police Sentinel
Boardroom2 Oct 2028
AS Police run out of patience with Cheick Sacko
The end came on a Tuesday, as these things usually do: a short meeting, a shorter statement, and Cheick Sacko clearing his office by noon. Football’s cruellest ritual, performed to schedule.
Squad2 Oct 2028
A knee injury of the worst kind for Mathis Delannay
58 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. AS Police lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Boardroom2 Oct 2028
Samba Sidibe takes charge at AS Police
“Somebody has to pick the team on Saturday, and this week that is me.” An interim appointment with no promises attached, which is how most of them start.
Squad2 Oct 2028
Aboubacar Wagué 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 AS Police this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom2 Oct 2028
5 academy players handed senior numbers at AS Police
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.
Market2 Oct 2028
AS Police promote Boubacar Coulibaly from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Boubacar Coulibaly 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.
Market2 Oct 2028
One of our own: Daouda Djenepo joins the AS Police first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Daouda Djenepo 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
AS Police promote Falaye Kante from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Falaye Kante 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.
Market2 Oct 2028
Sekou Samassekou steps up from the AS Police academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Sekou Samassekou 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.
In brief
- Boardroom AS Police pay $5.7K to end Cheick Sacko's contract
- Squad Malick Berthé is no longer first choice
- The dugout Boua Kane is playing like a man with something to prove