A first appearance Zamno Tasra will want to forget — 5.76
Everybody's debut is one of two stories and this was the other one. 5.76, and the only consolation available is that nobody's career has ever been decided by ninety minutes in a shirt he had just been given.
5 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.
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 4 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
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.
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ezechiel Haroun is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Issa Mbaiguedem 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.
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 18 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AS DGSSIE this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
In brief
SquadWords at AS DGSSIE training over how hard people work
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Abdoulaye Djimet 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.
Muhammad Hussain 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Meron Tal has improved at 24, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at AS DGSSIE training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Moubarak Djibrine 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
Squad17 new faces, and AS DGSSIE are still learning each other
Abdoulaye Djimet 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Zamno Tasra 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.
$16.0K. No player has ever cost AS DGSSIE more, and expectation arrives with him.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
AS DGSSIE spend $16.0K on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $16.0K for Brahim Abba, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AS DGSSIE this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at AS DGSSIE training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Idriss Souleymane 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.
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at AS DGSSIE would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
Careers are short and most of them do not end in a deal like this one. Brahim Abba has just secured his, and nobody at AS DGSSIE begrudges him it — out loud.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AS DGSSIE this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
AS DGSSIE spend $21.0K on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $21.0K for Abdoulaye Djimet, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at AS DGSSIE training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Brahim Ndoram 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.
8 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at AS DGSSIE has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
The best deals are the ones the accountants never notice. Muhammad Hussain arrives at AS DGSSIE with his wages the only cost and something to prove the only clause.
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at AS DGSSIE would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
A season-long look at somebody else’s player: Adam Haroun arrives from AS Algoy with something to prove and a return ticket in the drawer. Good loans make everybody richer; this one starts Saturday.
A season-long look at somebody else’s player: Brahim Mbainaissem arrives from AS Algoy with something to prove and a return ticket in the drawer. Good loans make everybody richer; this one starts Saturday.
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at AS DGSSIE would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.