The Onze Createurs Sentinel
Squad5 Oct 2026
Cheickna Wagué damages knee ligaments — 84 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 84 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Nobody could get near Mahamadou Sissoko
Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Onze Createurs
Malick Traoré 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A late step up for Malick Traoré
At 31 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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Graduation day at Onze Createurs
5 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Onze Createurs training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Patrick Egeonu 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 terraces5 Oct 2026
The crowd has taken to Mahamadou Sissoko
At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match3 Oct 2026
Onze Createurs see off Binga
Three points for Onze Createurs, 2‑0 the final word against Binga in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Market5 Oct 2026
Onze Createurs promote Bakary Kouyate from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Bakary Kouyate 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.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Souleymane Diarra joins the Onze Createurs first team
- Market Mamadou Camara steps up from the Onze Createurs academy
- Market Moussa Kone steps up from the Onze Createurs academy