The Stade Renard de Melong Chronicle
Squad6 Sep 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Herve Mbia
29 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Stade Renard de Melong lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market6 Sep 2027
Felix Koné Lottin hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Stade Renard de Melong can pretend not to have heard.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Real improvement from Brondon Ndam Tebo at Stade Renard de Melong
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Brondon Ndam Tebo is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Player ratings6 Sep 2027
Adam Musah runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Tempers go at Stade Renard de Melong
Yacine Wakili 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.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Yanick Leuyo has improved at 26, 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.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Stade Renard de Melong
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.
Market6 Sep 2027
Emmanuel Siani steps up from the Stade Renard de Melong academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Emmanuel Siani 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.
Market6 Sep 2027
Clinton Kameni steps up from the Stade Renard de Melong academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Clinton Kameni 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.
In brief
- Market Stade Renard de Melong promote Olivier Toko-Ekambi from within
- Boardroom Stade Renard de Melong are making the ground bigger
- Player ratings Yacine Wakili takes the honours