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The Colombe du Dja et Lobo Post

8 May 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad8 May 2028

Desire Bekale damages knee ligaments — 17 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 17 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match8 May 2028

Nobody above Colombe du Dja et Lobo

First, on 54 points. The table is a fact and a fact is allowed to be enjoyed, which is as far as anybody at the club is prepared to go in public.

Market8 May 2028

Bertrand Essiane Ndjongolo is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Colombe du Dja et Lobo is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad8 May 2028

A falling-out at Colombe du Dja et Lobo

Yvan Mvondo Olama and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad8 May 2028

Arthur Yene 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.

The dugout8 May 2028

The manager makes an example of Luc Bide Ndohoungar

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Market8 May 2028

Colombe du Dja et Lobo and Randy Ntume are talking past each other

“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 dugout8 May 2028

Bertrand Essiane Ndjongolo has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Colombe du Dja et Lobo will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Market8 May 2028

Adam Musah linked with a move away

The name of Adam Musah keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Colombe du Dja et Lobo say nothing, which says plenty.

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The Colombe du Dja et Lobo Post

1 May 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad1 May 2028

Desire Bekale damages knee ligaments — 24 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 24 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market1 May 2028

Marius Essapa Esseme 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 Colombe du Dja et Lobo, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market1 May 2028

Only the photograph left for Frédéric Yenang

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Frédéric Yenang will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Colombe du Dja et Lobo the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad1 May 2028

Yvan Mvondo Olama 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 Colombe du Dja et Lobo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad1 May 2028

Randy Ntume 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.

The dugout1 May 2028

Randy Ntume gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

The dugout1 May 2028

Marius Essapa Esseme knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Marius Essapa Esseme trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The dugout1 May 2028

A door opens for Bertrand Essiane Ndjongolo

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

Squad1 May 2028

A season on the outside for Ibrahim Gomis

He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Colombe du Dja et Lobo has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.

In brief