The Panthere du Nde Herald
Squad6 Sep 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Warren Fozing
40 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Panthere du Nde lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market6 Sep 2027
So close: Warren Fozing’s move dies late
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Stade Renard de Melong moved on, Warren Fozing reports back to Panthere du Nde, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Real improvement from Karim Bello at Panthere du Nde
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Karim Bello is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Tempers go at Panthere du Nde
Mohamed Moluh Mounta 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.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
Graduation day at Panthere du Nde
6 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad6 Sep 2027
A late step up for Marc Yapéndé
At 25 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.
Player ratings6 Sep 2027
Nobody could get near Konrad Nfanseu
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market6 Sep 2027
Panthere du Nde promote Olivier Toko-Ekambi from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Olivier Toko-Ekambi 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.
Market6 Sep 2027
One of our own: Eric Mbia joins the Panthere du Nde first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Eric Mbia is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Panthere du Nde promote Nicolas Ekambi from within
- Boardroom Panthere du Nde are making the ground bigger
- Match Panthere du Nde and Aigle Royal de la Menoua cancel each other out