The AS Bakaridjan Courier
Squad11 Jan 2027
Ace Sali damages knee ligaments — 34 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 34 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.
Market11 Jan 2027
Emmanuel Ini 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 The request is on a desk at AS Bakaridjan, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market11 Jan 2027
AS Bakaridjan turn down Stade Malien for Bourama Diallo
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad11 Jan 2027
A move Houssam Zouraghi would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Houssam Zouraghi is living that version at AS Bakaridjan, and it tends to show in the first month.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
Age has not caught Fady Nagah yet — 7.86
At 37 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.86 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Match9 Jan 2027
Nobody wants to play AS Bakaridjan right now
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Tempers go at AS Bakaridjan
Aboubacar Haïdara 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Houssam Zouraghi stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Houssam Zouraghi and AS Bakaridjan agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
Nothing got past Aboubacar Haïdara
20 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
In brief
- Match Santiago Mera the difference as AS Bakaridjan beat Binga
- Player ratings A defender's afternoon for Richard Matloga
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Makan Camara