The AS PSI Chronicle
Squad13 Sep 2027
The knee: Nassar Koulelengar out for 58 days
58 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. AS PSI lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad13 Sep 2027
A falling-out at AS PSI
Brahim Goudja and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets13 Sep 2027
AS PSI rebuffed over Arnaud Siani
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. AS Algoy have kept their man, and AS PSI go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market13 Sep 2027
AS PSI promote Abdramane Allamine from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Abdramane Allamine 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.
Market13 Sep 2027
One of our own: Ezechiel Bechir joins the AS PSI first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ezechiel Bechir is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market13 Sep 2027
Moussa Oumar steps up from the AS PSI academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Moussa Oumar 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.
Market13 Sep 2027
Hassan Abakar steps up from the AS PSI academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Hassan Abakar 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.
The dugout13 Sep 2027
Mahamat Adam Ali gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Mahamat Adam Ali is on it.
The dugout13 Sep 2027
Bark Abdramane 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 Bark Abdramane trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
In brief
- Squad Brahim Goudja can feel the drop
- Squad Issa Ngaradoumbe has had enough of the bench
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Nassar Koulelengar