Benjamin Mani

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Free Agent
17 Jan 2036
Thursday
Process

Marked for Benjamin Mani

423 Edition

The Fortuna Mfou Herald

4 Sep 2034
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Jerzino out for 80 days

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

Match

7 matches without a win for Fortuna Mfou

The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Fortuna Mfou are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Joseph Mbock 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 Fortuna Mfou this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Fortuna Mfou

7 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.

Market

One of our own: Clinton Song joins the Fortuna Mfou first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Clinton Song is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Benjamin Mani steps up from the Fortuna Mfou academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Benjamin Mani 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.

Market

Fortuna Mfou promote Eric Aboubakar from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Eric Aboubakar 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.

Market

Herve Ekambi steps up from the Fortuna Mfou academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Herve Ekambi 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.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Joseph Mbock

Marked 8.07 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

In brief