The Victoria United Sentinel
Market18 Sep 2034
Only the photograph left for Agbor Ashu
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Agbor Ashu will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Victoria United the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad18 Sep 2034
Tempers go at Victoria United
Alex Diboto 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.
Squad18 Sep 2034
Patrick Toko-Ekambi is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 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.
Squad18 Sep 2034
Divane Tchameni signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Divane Tchameni commits to Victoria United for another 2 years.
Squad18 Sep 2034
Elie Junior Bamal 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.
Player ratings18 Sep 2034
Sechaba Gaseitsiwe takes the honours
Marked 7.36 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Victoria United had the best player on the pitch.
Match16 Sep 2034
No goals between Victoria United and Dynamo Douala
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Dynamo Douala will be the happier side with the point.
Market18 Sep 2034
Talks stall between Victoria United and Maxime Ntcham
“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.
Player ratings18 Sep 2034
Nobody could get near Samuel Moukandjo
Successful dribbles: 9. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
In brief
- Market Victoria United pick up Divane Tchameni for nothing
- Market Stéphane Bekolo leaves for nothing