The Dynamo Douala Gazette
Squad6 Sep 2032
Franck Bekono gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Franck Bekono has just signed for Dynamo Douala, and for once the answer mattered.
Transfer targets6 Sep 2032
$250.0K settles it between the clubs for Mamadou Bamba Sarr
Colombe du Dja et Lobo have accepted the money. What Dynamo Douala do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Market6 Sep 2032
Stephane Ntcham 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 The request is on a desk at Dynamo Douala, and it is not being withdrawn.
Boardroom6 Sep 2032
Deadline passes with 14 signed and 20 gone
That is the business done at Dynamo Douala until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Squad6 Sep 2032
Jean Ulrich Ndong signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Jean Ulrich Ndong commits to Dynamo Douala for another 3 years.
Squad6 Sep 2032
Tempers go at Dynamo Douala
Marc Dynam Atangana 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.
Boardroom6 Sep 2032
Graduation day at Dynamo Douala
6 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.
Market6 Sep 2032
Boris Embolo steps up from the Dynamo Douala academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Boris Embolo 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.
Market6 Sep 2032
Dynamo Douala promote Samuel Kameni from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Samuel Kameni 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
- Market One of our own: Jacques Mabouka joins the Dynamo Douala first team
- Transfer targets The window shuts on the Ali Al Musrati deal
- The dugout When it matters, Jean Ulrich Ndong plays