Samuel Embolo

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97 Edition

The Cotonsport Garoua Chronicle

5 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market5 Jun 2028

Carlos Yougouda has said yes to PWD Bamenda

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Cotonsport Garoua have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Match5 Jun 2028

Cotonsport Garoua are in among the leaders

Position 3 and 47 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Squad5 Jun 2028

A falling-out at Cotonsport Garoua

Abdullah Monkhallah and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad5 Jun 2028

Charles Traoré stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Charles Traoré and Cotonsport Garoua agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad5 Jun 2028

Words at Cotonsport Garoua training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mohamed Djetei 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.

Transfer targets5 Jun 2028

Real Bamako tell Cotonsport Garoua: Bourama Togola is not for sale

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.

Market5 Jun 2028

Akeem Akanni attracts admirers

The name of Akeem Akanni has come up in conversations Cotonsport Garoua were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

The dugout5 Jun 2028

No hiding place for Sabo Gambo

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sabo Gambo, and the manager let it.

Market5 Jun 2028

Stade Renard de Melong expected to open talks for Jean François Popess Manguele

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Cotonsport Garoua will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

In brief

Back issues
77 Edition

The Cotonsport Garoua Chronicle

17 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad17 Jan 2028

32 days out for Thomas Amang after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Cotonsport Garoua will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market17 Jan 2028

Terms done: Bachirou Yaméogo is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Gazelle Garoua waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Cotonsport Garoua is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Player ratings17 Jan 2028

Both of them John Okoli's — 8.62

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.62, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Market17 Jan 2028

Emmanuel Dakana 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 Cotonsport Garoua, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad17 Jan 2028

A falling-out at Cotonsport Garoua

Abdullah Monkhallah and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad17 Jan 2028

A row about effort at Cotonsport Garoua

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mohamed Djetei was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets17 Jan 2028

Door shut on Arsene Mekila

Cotonsport Garoua asked and Gazelle Garoua said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Match15 Jan 2028

Cotonsport Garoua get the job done against Victoria United

A 2‑1 win over Victoria United, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

The dugout17 Jan 2028

No hiding place for Abdou Sissoko

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Abdou Sissoko, and the manager let it.

In brief

58 Edition

The Cotonsport Garoua Chronicle

6 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad6 Sep 2027

The knee: Bachirou Yaméogo out for 36 days

36 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Cotonsport Garoua lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad6 Sep 2027

32 days out for Abdou Sissoko after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Cotonsport Garoua will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market6 Sep 2027

Bachirou Yaméogo 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 Cotonsport Garoua, and it is not being withdrawn.

Boardroom6 Sep 2027

Deadline passes with 17 signed and 15 gone

That is the business done at Cotonsport Garoua until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

Squad6 Sep 2027

Tempers go at Cotonsport Garoua

Abdou Sissoko 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.

Boardroom6 Sep 2027

Graduation day at Cotonsport Garoua

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.

Squad6 Sep 2027

John Okoli falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Market6 Sep 2027

Cotonsport Garoua promote Michel Mani from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Michel Mani 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.

Market6 Sep 2027

One of our own: Samuel Anguissa joins the Cotonsport Garoua first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Samuel Anguissa is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief