Eric Mbia

Left Midfielder - Panthere du Nde U18
7 Jan 2028
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The Panthere du Nde Herald

6 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

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.

Market

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Boardroom

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.

Squad

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 ratings

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.

Market

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.

Market

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