Eric Embolo

Right Midfielder - Fortuna Mfou U18
17 Sep 2028
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The Fortuna Mfou Herald

6 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Alladoum Kolimba

35 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Fortuna Mfou lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

No end in sight to Fortuna Mfou's wait for a win

9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Fortuna Mfou has to find a result from somewhere.

Market

Ismaël Fansu 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 The request is on a desk at Fortuna Mfou, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Aiman Riahi is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Market

Léon Dilane Balomog attracts admirers

The name of Léon Dilane Balomog has come up in conversations Fortuna Mfou were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad

Tempers go at Fortuna Mfou

Ismaël Fansu 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.

Squad

Aminou Bouba has improved at 36, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

Boardroom

5 academy players handed senior numbers at Fortuna Mfou

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.

The terraces

Fortuna Mfou supporters have found a favourite in Solomon Nsoh

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Solomon Nsoh has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

In brief