Hamari Sidibe

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Process

Marked for Hamari Sidibe

482 Edition

The US Bougouni Herald

22 Oct 2035
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

John Otieno damages knee ligaments — 53 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 53 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

A fracture rules Cheick Fofana out for 23 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason US Bougouni will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Player ratings

Mohamed Slimi runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 30. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

Both of them Kénan Glougbé's — 8.30

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.30, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Match

US Bougouni are shipping goals every week

Two or more conceded in each of the last 7 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.

Match

Nobody could stop scoring

8 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about US Bougouni and US Bougouba in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

Player ratings

One of those days for Achille Kouadio

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.53, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Otutu Young at his very best

Marked 8.00. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at US Bougouni.

Match

Honours even between US Bougouni and US Bougouba

4‑4, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

In brief

Back issues
457 Edition

The US Bougouni Herald

30 Apr 2035
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

The scrutiny sharpens at US Bougouni

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at US Bougouni is running low.

Squad

Words at US Bougouni training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dimpho Madalane is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad

Mohamed Slimi in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at US Bougouni this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

454 Edition

The US Bougouni Herald

9 Apr 2035
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Dimpho Madalane 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.

Squad

No hiding place for Hamari Sidibe

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Hamari Sidibe, and the manager let it.

Squad

Abdoulaye Tamboura in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at US Bougouni this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

450 Edition

The US Bougouni Herald

12 Mar 2035
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Both of them Otutu Young's — 8.54

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.54, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on Otutu Young

17 goals and a season average of 7.27 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Player ratings

Mohamed Slimi runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Otutu Young’s goal not enough for US Bougouni

Otutu Young scored, and precious little else went right: 2‑3 to Afrique Foot Elite, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Squad

Hamari Sidibe signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Hamari Sidibe commits to US Bougouni for another 3 years.

Squad

Dimpho Madalane 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.

Squad

Tempers go at US Bougouni

Mohamed Slimi 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.

Boardroom

87% of the income goes out in wages at US Bougouni

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

Market

Kénan Glougbé linked with a move away

The name of Kénan Glougbé keeps appearing in other people's back pages. US Bougouni say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief