Marked for Ahmat Hissein
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad18 Oct 2027
16 days out for Moussa Adoum after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. AS DGSSIE will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
The terraces18 Oct 2027
The mood at AS DGSSIE has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Squad18 Oct 2027
Moussa Adoum 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.
Match16 Oct 2027
1‑2 to Foullah Edifice, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad18 Oct 2027
Words at AS DGSSIE training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ali Bechir 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.
The dugout18 Oct 2027
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Moussa Doungous after 1‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Player ratings18 Oct 2027
Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market18 Oct 2027
The name of Abdoulaye Bechir keeps appearing in other people's back pages. AS DGSSIE say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout18 Oct 2027
Ali Haroun 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 AS DGSSIE, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Uneasy
Match5 Jul 2027
Every point is an argument now for AS DGSSIE
Position 12 and 11 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Transfer targets5 Jul 2027
Fee done, terms next for Moussa Adoum
AS DGSSIE and US Moursal have settled on $15.0K. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.
The dugout5 Jul 2027
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Transfer targets5 Jul 2027
The offer went to AS Algoy this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Transfer targets5 Jul 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Stars Jeunes Talents have kept their man, and AS DGSSIE go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Idriss Djimet 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.
Boardroom5 Jul 2027
AS DGSSIE sign 3 boys into the academy
None of them will be seen by anybody outside the training ground for three years, most of them will never play a senior match, and one of them might change the club. That is the whole proposition, and it is why academies exist.
Squad5 Jul 2027
A new face in his position, and Marius Ngaradoumbe suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. AS DGSSIE have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
Squad5 Jul 2027
The table has started to be checked before the results are in, and that is always the tell. Nobody at AS DGSSIE says the word out loud, and everybody in the building is thinking it.
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Uneasy
Match10 May 2027
AS DGSSIE sink to position 12
11 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
The dugout10 May 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” AS DGSSIE may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market10 May 2027
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Saleh Mbainaissem 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.
Squad10 May 2027
29 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
The dugout10 May 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Hassan Tokindang, and the manager let it.
Squad10 May 2027
The training reports on Djibrine Moustapha are not good
A bad Saturday is forgiven; a bad Tuesday is chosen. Standards have slipped and in a building where everybody watches everybody, it has been noticed.
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Uneasy
Market5 Apr 2027
Issa Ndoram 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 US Moursal can pretend not to have heard.
The dugout5 Apr 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market5 Apr 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at US Moursal is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Youssouf Ndoram and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout5 Apr 2027
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Squad5 Apr 2027
A row about effort at US Moursal
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ezechiel Haroun was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad5 Apr 2027
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Moussa Moustapha is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
Market5 Apr 2027
Marius Allamine returns from a loan that gave him nothing
3 appearances and 1 goals is not a season, it is a year somebody has lost. Whether that is his fault, the borrowing club's or the people who arranged it is the argument the next few weeks will have.
The dugout5 Apr 2027
Issa Ndoram 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 US Moursal, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Crisis
Match27 Mar 2027
A 2-goal lead gone for AS DGSSIE
It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. AS Algoy kept coming because nothing stopped them, and AS DGSSIE will be asked about the last half hour all week.
Player ratings29 Mar 2027
Marked 8.33 at 16, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Match27 Mar 2027
No end in sight to AS DGSSIE's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at AS DGSSIE has to find a result from somewhere.
Match27 Mar 2027
Djibrine Oumar scored, and precious little else went right: 3‑4 to AS Algoy, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
The terraces29 Mar 2027
He is 16 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Player ratings29 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Moussa Doungous after 3‑4, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
“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.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Beaten 4 times: a bad day for Moussa Djimet
5 saves does not settle the argument about whose fault it was, and the argument will run all week. Goalkeepers carry these scorelines whoever caused them.
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Uneasy
Match22 Feb 2027
11 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market22 Feb 2027
Moussa Adoum has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around US Moursal they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market22 Feb 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
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Squad22 Feb 2027
Youssouf Ndoram 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.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Words at US Moursal training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ezechiel Haroun 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.
Loan watch22 Feb 2027
“I watch every US Moursal game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Gazelle runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at US Moursal, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market22 Feb 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. US Moursal know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Steady
Match15 Feb 2027
Every point is an argument now for AS DGSSIE
Position 12 and 10 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
Marked 8.11 at 14, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Transfer targets15 Feb 2027
AS DGSSIE asked and AS Algoy said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The terraces15 Feb 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 14-year-old it feels ownership of. Saleh Mbaiguedem has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match13 Feb 2027
A 2‑0 win over Stars Jeunes Talents, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
A performance of 8.06 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Moussa Doungous on a 2‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Djibrine Tokindang, and the manager let it.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Every signing waits for it and every press conference asks about it until it comes. It has come, AS DGSSIE have their man off the mark, and the second one is always easier.
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Uneasy
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” AS DGSSIE may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Match31 Oct 2026
No end in sight to AS DGSSIE's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at AS DGSSIE has to find a result from somewhere.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Marius Ngaradoumbe is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
Match31 Oct 2026
It needed Ezechiel Haroun to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Gazelle, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
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.” Moussa Doungous chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and AS DGSSIE will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Ezechiel Haroun is the weekend's best young player
At 15 he is being measured against the rest of the division's kids and coming out in front. The senior version of this award is where the club would like this to lead.
Looking ahead2 Nov 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against US Moursal in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
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Steady
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
AS DGSSIE have gone to US Moursal with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to AS PSI: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Aiglons have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Squad24 Aug 2026
6 new faces, and AS DGSSIE are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Marius Ngaradoumbe and AS DGSSIE agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A row about effort at AS DGSSIE
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Youssouf Djimet was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. AS DGSSIE will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
“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.
Market24 Aug 2026
A season-long audition: US Moursal still own him, but the shirt and the minutes are AS DGSSIE's to give. A loan is a bet both clubs believe they are winning.