Daouda Sidibe

Defensive Midfielder - AS Police
27 Mar 2033
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Marked for Daouda Sidibe

325 Edition

The AS Police Sentinel

18 Oct 2032
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market18 Oct 2032

Chukwueze Adebayor has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around AS Police they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Match16 Oct 2032

6 matches without a win for AS Police

The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around AS Police are no longer polite ones.

Match16 Oct 2032

FC Diarra take the points off AS Police

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Player ratings18 Oct 2032

Ninety minutes of Appolinaire Bougma at his very best

Marked 8.37. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at AS Police.

The dugout18 Oct 2032

The manager makes an example of Thulani Mokotjo

“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.

The dugout18 Oct 2032

Interim Coach: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

Looking ahead18 Oct 2032

Mamadou Maïga goes back to face Stade Malien

Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Mamadou Maïga’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and AS Police needing him to play as if none of it matters.

Squad18 Oct 2032

Daouda Sidibe makes his debut at 19

At 19 years old, Daouda Sidibe became the latest name off the academy production line to be handed a senior shirt.

Market18 Oct 2032

Anas Farah Ali linked with a move away

The name of Anas Farah Ali keeps appearing in other people's back pages. AS Police say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

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321 Edition

The AS Police Sentinel

20 Sep 2032
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market20 Sep 2032

Chukwueze Adebayor 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 The request is on a desk at AS Police, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market20 Sep 2032

Only the photograph left for Chukwueze Adebayor

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Chukwueze Adebayor will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around AS Police the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad20 Sep 2032

A row about effort at AS Police

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

Squad20 Sep 2032

Daouda Sidibe stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Daouda Sidibe and AS Police agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout20 Sep 2032

Chukwueze Adebayor 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 Chukwueze Adebayor is on it.

Squad20 Sep 2032

Mousa Hazard is a square peg at AS Police

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

In brief

315 Edition

The AS Police Sentinel

9 Aug 2032
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market9 Aug 2032

Chukwueze Adebayor has said yes to Real Bamako

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

Squad9 Aug 2032

Hamza Bahaj 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.

The dugout9 Aug 2032

Modibo Dembele frozen out at AS Police

This is not rotation. Modibo Dembele has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at AS Police is pretending otherwise.

Market9 Aug 2032

Talks stall between AS Police and Appolinaire Bougma

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

Transfer targets9 Aug 2032

AS Police ask about Nankoma Keïta

A loan enquiry to Stade Malien: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Transfer targets9 Aug 2032

A loan move for Youssouf Simpara is in the works

AS Police have made the call to Djoliba. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

The dugout9 Aug 2032

Thomas Sanglier has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at AS Police 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 dugout9 Aug 2032

Mamadou Maïga knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at AS Police, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market9 Aug 2032

The Ousmane Ouédraogo talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. AS Police know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief