The Gazelle Herald
Player ratings4 Oct 2027
Armand Moreau could not have asked for more on his first appearance — 7.23
Debuts are survived rather than enjoyed. This one was enjoyed: 7.23, 0 goals, and a manager already being asked whether he starts again next week.
Player ratings4 Oct 2027
Up for the corner, and Osée Natoyoum delivers — 7.55
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Osée Natoyoum scored, was marked 7.55, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Squad4 Oct 2027
Bedis Matoussi is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 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.
Boardroom4 Oct 2027
An order from above at Gazelle: somebody has to go
Balance sheets do not care about form or about who the manager was planning to build around. The board have decided a sale is required, and the only question left is which name ends up carrying it.
Squad4 Oct 2027
A falling-out at Gazelle
Koffi Ayivi and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom4 Oct 2027
Graduation day at Gazelle
2 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.
Squad4 Oct 2027
A row about effort at Gazelle
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Osée Natoyoum was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The terraces4 Oct 2027
One of their own: Dylan Achimi
He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Match2 Oct 2027
Dylan Achimi sends Gazelle past US Moursal
It finished 2‑0, and it was Dylan Achimi’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Gazelle.
In brief
- Market Issa Hissein steps up from the Gazelle academy
- Market Brahim Adoum steps up from the Gazelle academy
- Boardroom Gazelle board go back on their word