Cheick Sidibe

Right Midfielder - FC Diarra U18
11 Nov 2027
Thursday
Process

Marked for Cheick Sidibe

52 Edition

The FC Diarra Gazette

26 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Anthony Nwadioha 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 The request is on a desk at FC Diarra, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Cheick Sidibe breaks a bone — 19 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 19 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Boardroom

The scrutiny sharpens at FC Diarra

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at FC Diarra is running low.

In brief

Back issues
51 Edition

The FC Diarra Gazette

19 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

Anger at FC Diarra spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Squad

A fracture rules Cheick Sidibe out for 27 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason FC Diarra will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Cebo Mchunu 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 The request is on a desk at FC Diarra, and it is not being withdrawn.

In brief

50 Edition

The FC Diarra Gazette

12 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Ayanda Vete hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what FC Diarra can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

A fracture rules Cheick Sidibe out for 34 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason FC Diarra will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

Tempers go at FC Diarra

Sandile Ndlovu 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.

Squad

Words at FC Diarra training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Cailin Knock 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.

Squad

Adama Keïta is still paying for one afternoon at FC Diarra

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

Market

The Suleiman Mojereola story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Suleiman Mojereola signs something — a contract at FC Diarra or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

In brief

2 Edition

The FC Diarra Gazette

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A move Suleiman Mojereola would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Suleiman Mojereola is living that version at FC Diarra, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad

Sfundo Nzama signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Sfundo Nzama and FC Diarra agree another 3 years.

Squad

Imad Rqioui 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 FC Diarra this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

FC Diarra promote Falaye Sidibe from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Falaye Sidibe 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.

Market

One of our own: Lassana Sidibe joins the FC Diarra first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Lassana Sidibe is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Kalifa Samassekou steps up from the FC Diarra academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Kalifa 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