The Gazelle Garoua Courier
Match18 Sep 2027
The wait goes on for Gazelle Garoua
12 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Market20 Sep 2027
Only the photograph left for Housseini Ousmanou
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Housseini Ousmanou will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Gazelle Garoua the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market20 Sep 2027
Junior Leboum Meli 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 The request is on a desk at Gazelle Garoua, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad20 Sep 2027
The step up is real for Dave Tessa
At 23 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Dave Tessa 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 Gazelle Garoua this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout20 Sep 2027
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Squad20 Sep 2027
A late step up for Daniel Andela Mendje
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 ratings20 Sep 2027
Marius Kalgong was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 20. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Match18 Sep 2027
A bad afternoon for Gazelle Garoua against Colombe du Dja et Lobo
0‑1 to Colombe du Dja et Lobo, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
In brief
- The dugout The view from the dugout
- Market The shop window has Dave Tessa in it
- Squad Stephane Ntcham is the weekend's best young player