The Victoria United Sentinel
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Victoria United
Dérrick Anye Fru and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Market16 Nov 2026
The Serge Daura question follows Victoria United around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Serge Daura’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
A door opens for Dérrick Anye Fru
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.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Daouda Koné knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Victoria United, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Dérrick Anye Fru finally belongs at Victoria United
The language has come, the shrug has gone, and he argues in training like a man who expects to be here next year. None of it shows up on a fee and all of it shows up on the pitch.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Samuel Mathias takes up the language
The least glamorous thing a foreign signing ever does and the one that decides most of them. A player who can hear the shout behind him is a different footballer from one who cannot.
In brief
- Looking ahead An away day at Canon Yaounde next for Victoria United
- The dugout Gilfranck Peto keeps his manager's vote
- Squad Marcel Moukoudi is out on the grass again