The Djoliba Courier
Squad19 Oct 2026
Real improvement from Oumar Coulibaly at Djoliba
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Oumar Coulibaly is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Yacouba Doumbia 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 Djoliba this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A late step up for Salim Bah
At 30 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Djoliba training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sékou Diarra 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.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
One of those days for Amadou Soumaré
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.16, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Loan watch19 Oct 2026
Samba Fofana wants to come home
“I did not go to US Bougouni to sit and watch. I want to come back to Djoliba and fight for my place.” 2 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.
In brief
- Match Djoliba share the spoils with Etoiles du Mande
- Player ratings The pass was always on for Mahamadou Sissoko
- Player ratings Zoumana Simpara runs at them all day
- Player ratings Boulkassoum Diarra spends the afternoon fouling