Maxime Ntcham

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Colombe du Dja et Lobo
2 Aug 2043
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Marked for Maxime Ntcham

868 Edition

The Colombe du Dja et Lobo Post

16 Mar 2043
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad16 Mar 2043

Franck Fai: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Colombe du Dja et Lobo have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad16 Mar 2043

Tempers go at Colombe du Dja et Lobo

Roman Raifegerste 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.

Squad16 Mar 2043

Words at Colombe du Dja et Lobo training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Hamidou Hamza 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.

In brief

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853 Edition

The Colombe du Dja et Lobo Post

1 Dec 2042
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match29 Nov 2042

Colombe du Dja et Lobo leaking at the back

13 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.

Squad1 Dec 2042

Roman Raifegerste keeps Colombe du Dja et Lobo in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad1 Dec 2042

Maxime Ntcham: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Colombe du Dja et Lobo have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad1 Dec 2042

Patrick Embolo is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.30 with 17 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Squad1 Dec 2042

Hamidou Hamza 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 Colombe du Dja et Lobo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match29 Nov 2042

Patrick Embolo the difference as Colombe du Dja et Lobo beat Aigle Royal de la Menoua

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Patrick Embolo. 3‑2 against Aigle Royal de la Menoua, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

In brief

850 Edition

The Colombe du Dja et Lobo Post

10 Nov 2042
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match8 Nov 2042

The wait goes on for Colombe du Dja et Lobo

11 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Match8 Nov 2042

Colombe du Dja et Lobo leaking at the back

10 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.

Market10 Nov 2042

Achille Ondoa has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Colombe du Dja et Lobo they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad10 Nov 2042

Christian Siani: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Colombe du Dja et Lobo have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad10 Nov 2042

Tempers go at Colombe du Dja et Lobo

Hamidou Hamza 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.

Player ratings10 Nov 2042

Patrick Embolo runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad10 Nov 2042

Samuel Ekambi signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Samuel Ekambi and Colombe du Dja et Lobo agree another 3 years.

Match8 Nov 2042

Patrick Embolo rescues a point for Colombe du Dja et Lobo

It needed Patrick Embolo to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Fauve Azur Elite, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

Squad10 Nov 2042

Words at Colombe du Dja et Lobo training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jonathan Mohammed 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.

In brief

808 Edition

The Colombe du Dja et Lobo Post

20 Jan 2042
From our football correspondent Steady

Market20 Jan 2042

Aigle Royal de Moungo come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Colombe du Dja et Lobo did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad20 Jan 2042

Maxime Ntcham says Colombe du Dja et Lobo went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Player ratings20 Jan 2042

Age has not caught Tobías Berón yet — 7.92

At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.92 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Market20 Jan 2042

Achille Ondoa is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Colombe du Dja et Lobo is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Match18 Jan 2042

4 matches without a win for Colombe du Dja et Lobo

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Colombe du Dja et Lobo are no longer polite ones.

Squad20 Jan 2042

Hamidou Hamza 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 Colombe du Dja et Lobo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings20 Jan 2042

Patrick Embolo ran the middle of the pitch — 6.73

He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 13 combined actions and a mark of 6.73, and not one of them will make a highlights package.

Squad20 Jan 2042

Words at Colombe du Dja et Lobo training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Arthur Yene 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.

Squad20 Jan 2042

Patrick Moukoudi signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Patrick Moukoudi and Colombe du Dja et Lobo agree another 1 years.

In brief

793 Edition

The Colombe du Dja et Lobo Post

7 Oct 2041
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad7 Oct 2041

Roman Raifegerste decides it from twelve yards

2 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.

Match5 Oct 2041

Chastening afternoon for Colombe du Dja et Lobo

A 1‑5 beating by Canon Yaounde was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

Match2 Oct 2041

Colombe du Dja et Lobo out of the cup

Unisport Bafang ended it 2‑2. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Player ratings7 Oct 2041

Maxime Ntcham could not have asked for more on his first appearance — 7.45

Debuts are survived rather than enjoyed. This one was enjoyed: 7.45, 1 goals, and a manager already being asked whether he starts again next week.

Squad7 Oct 2041

12 seasons of Jonathan Mohammed

78 appearances across 12 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Colombe du Dja et Lobo know what they have.

Match5 Oct 2041

No end in sight to Colombe du Dja et Lobo's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Colombe du Dja et Lobo has to find a result from somewhere.

Player ratings7 Oct 2041

Up for the corner, and Edgar Choupo-Moting delivers — 7.33

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Edgar Choupo-Moting scored, was marked 7.33, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Squad7 Oct 2041

Tobías Berón stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Tobías Berón and Colombe du Dja et Lobo agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad7 Oct 2041

Hamidou Hamza 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 Colombe du Dja et Lobo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

788 Edition

The Colombe du Dja et Lobo Post

2 Sep 2041
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad2 Sep 2041

Roman Raifegerste breaks a bone — 19 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 19 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad2 Sep 2041

Tobías Berón has been here 14 seasons

347 appearances across 14 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.

Boardroom2 Sep 2041

A new deal for Ibrahim Maiga

The board have signed the man in the dugout to a longer contract, which says more than any statement of support. Stability is easy to promise and costly to keep.

Squad2 Sep 2041

Tempers go at Colombe du Dja et Lobo

Hamidou Hamza 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.

Market2 Sep 2041

Fauve Azur Elite expected to open talks for Tobías Berón

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Colombe du Dja et Lobo will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

Boardroom2 Sep 2041

7 academy players handed senior numbers at Colombe du Dja et Lobo

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Squad2 Sep 2041

Arthur Yene 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.

Market2 Sep 2041

Jean Mani steps up from the Colombe du Dja et Lobo academy

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

Market2 Sep 2041

Colombe du Dja et Lobo promote Ambroise Moukoudi from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ambroise Moukoudi 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