Marked for Mahamat Mbainaissem
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad31 Aug 2026
22 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Galactik lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
$4.0K settles it between the clubs for Narcisse Mbaiguedem
US Moursal have accepted the money. What Galactik do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
The offer went to US Moursal this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Galactik
Saleh Mbainaissem and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
Squad31 Aug 2026
5 new faces, and Galactik are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad24 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Moussa Hissein
29 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Galactik lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. US Moursal have kept their man, and Galactik go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market24 Aug 2026
He signed expecting a bigger stage than the one he found. It has not taken long, and it has not taken the dressing room long to notice either.
Market24 Aug 2026
There is a particular relief in a club addressing the thing its own crowd has been shouting about. Abdramane Youssouf arrives for exactly that job, and now he has to do it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Galactik are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Mahamat Mbainaissem and Galactik agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad17 Aug 2026
Moussa Hissein damages knee ligaments — 36 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 36 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
AS Police come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Galactik did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
$41.0K on the table at US Moursal. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Galactik
Ousmane Biani and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Unisport Bafang have kept their man, and Galactik go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market17 Aug 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
43 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Galactik lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Everything agreed with AS Algoy, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Galactik offered $23.0K; AS Etat Major said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Mahamat Mbainaissem 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Abdramane Adoum 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Moussa Hissein has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Narcisse Djimet is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Issa Malloum Issa 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.