The Afrique Foot Elite Sentinel
Squad8 Oct 2029
51 days out for Souleymane Coulibaly after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Afrique Foot Elite will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Player ratings8 Oct 2029
Aboubacar Sidibé was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 37. 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.
Match6 Oct 2029
Afrique Foot Elite taken apart
0‑4 to AS Bakaridjan, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Squad8 Oct 2029
Real improvement from Yusuf Abdulmumini at Afrique Foot Elite
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Yusuf Abdulmumini is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Boardroom8 Oct 2029
Afrique Foot Elite tie Samba Malle down
A new deal for the man in the dugout, and the clearest thing a board can say without calling a press conference about it. Stability is cheap to promise and expensive to deliver.
Boardroom8 Oct 2029
Hamari Diallo has agreed to leave Afrique Foot Elite for nothing
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
The dugout8 Oct 2029
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Boardroom8 Oct 2029
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Afrique Foot Elite
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad8 Oct 2029
A falling-out at Afrique Foot Elite
Aboubacar Meïté and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
In brief
- Market Samba Samassekou steps up from the Afrique Foot Elite academy
- Market One of our own: Samba Tamboura joins the Afrique Foot Elite first team
- Market One of our own: Boubacar Maiga joins the Afrique Foot Elite first team