Daouda Haidara

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Free Agent
25 Sep 2030
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Daouda Haidara

176 Edition

The AS Police Sentinel

10 Dec 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

The terraces

Supporters organise against the AS Police 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.

Squad

Tiago Fernandes stands alone

7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

The dugout

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Squad

Souleymane Dramé 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.

Player ratings

One of those days for Souleymane Dramé

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.34, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad

Daouda Haidara stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Daouda Haidara and AS Police agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Match

AS Police and US Bougouba take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

Player ratings

Jean Paul Diatta beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 14. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Kalifa Samassekou chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.

In brief

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124 Edition

The AS Police Sentinel

11 Dec 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

The knee: Abraham Faruk out for 113 days

113 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. AS Police lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Souleymane Dramé

Successful dribbles: 41. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

9 matches without a win for AS Police

The run now stands at 9, and the questions being asked around AS Police are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Tempers go at AS Police

Souleymane Dramé was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Match

A bad afternoon for AS Police against US Bougouba

1‑2 to US Bougouba, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Daouda Haidara signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Daouda Haidara commits to AS Police for another 3 years.

The dugout

Kalifa Samassekou faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Kalifa Samassekou after 1‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

Squad

A row about effort at AS Police

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Yusuf Kabir was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

When it matters, Tiago Fernandes plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

In brief