Marcel Embolo

Defensive Midfielder - Stade Renard de Melong
17 Mar 2033
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Marked for Marcel Embolo

333 Edition

The Stade Renard de Melong Chronicle

13 Dec 2032
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad13 Dec 2032

A knee injury of the worst kind for Cedric

14 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.

Squad13 Dec 2032

6 saves: Sidoine Koularambai was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Match11 Dec 2032

The wait goes on for Stade Renard de Melong

5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Market13 Dec 2032

Olivier Dawa asks to leave Stade Renard de Melong

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad13 Dec 2032

Stephane Ntcham signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Stephane Ntcham and Stade Renard de Melong agree another 3 years.

Squad13 Dec 2032

Tempers go at Stade Renard de Melong

Joseph Godstime 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.

Match11 Dec 2032

A bad afternoon for Stade Renard de Melong against Panthere du Nde

0‑1 to Panthere du Nde, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout13 Dec 2032

No hiding place for Terence Ambe Ngufor

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

The dugout13 Dec 2032

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Interim Coach left the room before anybody could ask which.

In brief

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324 Edition

The Stade Renard de Melong Chronicle

11 Oct 2032
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces11 Oct 2032

Supporters organise against the Stade Renard de Melong board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Squad11 Oct 2032

Tempers go at Stade Renard de Melong

Moustapha Bissene 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.

Squad11 Oct 2032

Words at Stade Renard de Melong training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Joseph Godstime 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 dugout11 Oct 2032

The manager makes an example of Joseph Godstime

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Squad11 Oct 2032

Desire Embolo signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Desire Embolo commits to Stade Renard de Melong for another 3 years.

Squad11 Oct 2032

Too much change too quickly at Stade Renard de Melong

6 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

Looking ahead11 Oct 2032

Terence Ambe Ngufor goes back to face Fortuna Mfou

Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Terence Ambe Ngufor’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Stade Renard de Melong needing him to play as if none of it matters.

Market11 Oct 2032

Sidoine Koularambai linked with a move away

The name of Sidoine Koularambai keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Stade Renard de Melong say nothing, which says plenty.

Market11 Oct 2032

Stade Renard de Melong and Desire Onguene are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

In brief

305 Edition

The Stade Renard de Melong Chronicle

31 May 2032
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad31 May 2032

A knee injury of the worst kind for Patrick Ekandjoum

62 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.

Boardroom31 May 2032

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Stade Renard de Melong

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Market31 May 2032

Pierre Onguene asks to leave Stade Renard de Melong

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad31 May 2032

Words exchanged at Stade Renard de Melong

Moustapha Bissene and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

The dugout31 May 2032

Fabrice Kunde frozen out at Stade Renard de Melong

This is not rotation. Fabrice Kunde has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Stade Renard de Melong is pretending otherwise.

Squad31 May 2032

Marcel Embolo stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Marcel Embolo and Stade Renard de Melong agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout31 May 2032

Desire Onguene has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Stade Renard de Melong will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

The dugout31 May 2032

Emmanuel Ntcham knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Emmanuel Ntcham trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market31 May 2032

The Sidoine Koularambai story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Sidoine Koularambai signs something — a contract at Stade Renard de Melong or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

In brief