Cheick Sidibe

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The AS Korofina Sentinel

31 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces31 Jan 2028

The mood at AS Korofina has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Market31 Jan 2028

Abdoulaye Guèye 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 The request is on a desk at AS Korofina, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad31 Jan 2028

A falling-out at AS Korofina

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

Transfer targets31 Jan 2028

Onze Createurs tell AS Korofina: Mamadou Diakité 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.

Squad31 Jan 2028

A row about effort at AS Korofina

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

Match29 Jan 2028

Dramane Traoré’s goal not enough for AS Korofina

Dramane Traoré scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to AS Bakaridjan, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

The dugout31 Jan 2028

The manager makes an example of Daouda Togola

“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.

Player ratings31 Jan 2028

Kelyan Hamadi did the work nobody counts — 6.60

10 combined actions and 6.60. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.

The dugout31 Jan 2028

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 1‑2 Boubacar Sidibe left the room before anybody could ask which.

In brief

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The AS Korofina Sentinel

4 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad4 Oct 2027

Badara Diomandé damages knee ligaments — 61 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 61 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.

The dugout4 Oct 2027

Sékou Guindo says AS Korofina went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad4 Oct 2027

A one-man rearguard from Imerson

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Boardroom4 Oct 2027

AS Korofina tie Boubacar Sidibe down

A new deal for the man in the dugout, and the clearest thing a board can say without calling a press conference about it. Stability is cheap to promise and expensive to deliver.

Squad4 Oct 2027

Tempers go at AS Korofina

Robin Busset 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.

Boardroom4 Oct 2027

5 academy graduates step up at AS Korofina

Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.

Match2 Oct 2027

The run at home goes on for AS Korofina

9 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.

Market4 Oct 2027

One of our own: Cheick Sidibe joins the AS Korofina first team

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

Market4 Oct 2027

AS Korofina promote Ibrahim Bagayoko from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ibrahim Bagayoko 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.

In brief