The Victoria United Sentinel
Squad3 Aug 2026
Alex Diboto signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Alex Diboto commits to Victoria United for another 4 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Victoria United
Bryan Nokoue 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
The ambition of Raphaël Anaba outgrows Victoria United early
Signings arrive with a picture of the club in their head, and this one’s picture was bigger than the building. He will play well and he will be gone, in that order, and everybody knows it.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Aminou Bouba has outgrown this division
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Victoria United know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
Market3 Aug 2026
49 months and counting on Alex Diboto
Still no offer on the table, and Alex Diboto’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Victoria United try to borrow Donatien Tchami
Real Bamako have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan move for Ahmadou Bello is in the works
Victoria United have made the call to Stade Malien. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Victoria United try to borrow Paul Ombolo
Canon Yaounde have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Squad3 Aug 2026
5 new faces, and Victoria United are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
In brief
- The dugout Jason Moulle knocks on the manager's door
- Market Experience through the door at Victoria United
- Market Talks stall between Victoria United and Agbor Ashu