From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match2 Jan 2027
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 14 matches without defeat is a foundation Elect Sport did not have in the autumn.
Market4 Jan 2027
The offer from US Bougouba for Frédéric Djoita was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Match4 Jan 2027
31 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Mahamat Harouna and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad4 Jan 2027
The kind of year that ends with a name being read out in a hall. Elect Sport had the benefit of it every week and now have the problem of everybody else knowing.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Marked 8.27 — 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.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match4 Jan 2027
Halfway: Elect Sport sit in position 3
31 points at the turn. The first half of a season is a promise; the second is a bill, and the town is about to find out which of the two this one was.
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Steady
Match26 Dec 2026
Whatever happens, Elect Sport do not lose
13 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad28 Dec 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Elect Sport this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Ferdinand Gassina 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.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Marked 8.22. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Elect Sport.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
110% of the income goes out in wages at Elect Sport
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Match26 Dec 2026
It needed Abakar Haroun Mahamat to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against US Moursal, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Abdoulaye Oumar was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the Elect Sport dressing room was either.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
8 attempts, none of them in. He got into the right places all afternoon, which is the hard part, and did the easy part badly — and that is the version of a bad day a manager can live with.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
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Upbeat
Match19 Dec 2026
Whatever happens, Elect Sport do not lose
12 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
A defender's goal wins it for Elect Sport — 7.84
1 for Moral Djimhotoum, marked 7.84, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words at Elect Sport training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ferdinand Gassina 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Elect Sport this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces21 Dec 2026
He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Match19 Dec 2026
It finished 2‑0, and it was Moral Djimhotoum’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Elect Sport.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Gérard Nodjiram
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.09, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 2‑0, already talking about the next one.
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Upbeat
Match12 Dec 2026
Whatever happens, Elect Sport do not lose
11 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Defences have started doubling up on Goukouni Abakar
14 goals and a season average of 7.39 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Youssouf Abakar and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Ninety minutes of Mahamat Harouna at his very best
Marked 8.29. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Elect Sport.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Ninety minutes of Goukouni Abakar at his very best
Marked 8.25. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Elect Sport.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
Match12 Dec 2026
2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Moussa Raimadji has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Elect Sport will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Abdoulaye Oumar was not hiding it after 2‑2, and nobody in the Elect Sport dressing room was either.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match5 Dec 2026
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Foullah Edifice, and it could have been more.
Squad7 Dec 2026
3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Match7 Dec 2026
Elect Sport refuse to drop out of the race
Position 3, 23 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Match5 Dec 2026
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 10 matches without defeat is a foundation Elect Sport did not have in the autumn.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Moussa Raimadji, 33, rolls back the years — 8.25
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.25 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Mahamat Harouna and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Marked 9.67 — 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words at Elect Sport training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ferdinand Gassina 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.
Looking ahead7 Dec 2026
The fixture the rest of the division is looking forward to more than either of the sides in it. Both know a win changes the season and a defeat does not end it, which is what makes it hard to play.
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Upbeat
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
A brace, and Goukouni Abakar takes the afternoon — 9.43
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Goukouni Abakar provided it, and the 9.43 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 30. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Match28 Nov 2026
Still nobody has beaten Elect Sport
The unbeaten run reaches 9. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad30 Nov 2026
13 goals and a season average of 7.36. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Frédéric Djoeta 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Ferdinand Gassina 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.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
Wages swallow 112% of the Elect Sport income
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
Match28 Nov 2026
A goal on 93 minutes turned three points into one and a good afternoon into an argument about game management that will run until Saturday.
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Triumph
Match21 Nov 2026
3‑0, and Goukouni Abakar took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Elect Sport tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 30. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad23 Nov 2026
The match ball belongs to Goukouni Abakar, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Match21 Nov 2026
Nobody wants to play Elect Sport 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Elect Sport this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.70, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad23 Nov 2026
11 goals and a season average of 7.25. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Mahamat Harouna was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.08. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Match14 Nov 2026
4‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
A brace, and Goukouni Abakar takes the afternoon — 9.02
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Goukouni Abakar provided it, and the 9.02 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Ali Abakar, 16, plays like he has been here for years — 7.65
A mark of 7.65 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 16-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Match14 Nov 2026
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 7 matches without defeat is a foundation Elect Sport did not have in the autumn.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Mahamat Harouna and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Ferdinand Gassina 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.
The terraces16 Nov 2026
He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
A performance of 8.51 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
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Triumph
Squad9 Nov 2026
4 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Moussa Raimadji, 33, rolls back the years — 8.10
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.10 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Ninety minutes of Goukouni Abakar at his very best
Marked 10.00. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Elect Sport.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Adoum Defallah 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.
Match4 Nov 2026
Still nobody has beaten Elect Sport
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words at Elect Sport training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ferdinand Gassina 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.
The terraces9 Nov 2026
At 14 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.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
An order from above at Elect Sport: somebody has to go
Balance sheets do not care about form or about who the manager was planning to build around. The board have decided a sale is required, and the only question left is which name ends up carrying it.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Youssouf Abakar 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.
Match31 Oct 2026
4 matches without defeat, and then Renaissance. Nobody at the ground pretended it would go on forever; nobody expected it to stop here either.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
112% of the income goes out in wages at Elect Sport
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Loan watch2 Nov 2026
“I did not go to AS DGSSIE to sit and watch. I want to come back to Elect Sport and fight for my place.” 5 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
A mark of 7.37, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Moral Djimhotoum is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Market2 Nov 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Yannick Ndilabaye has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Elect Sport.
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Triumph
Match24 Oct 2026
6‑1, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Squad26 Oct 2026
3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Squad26 Oct 2026
The match ball belongs to Goukouni Abakar, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
No sign of nerves from Ali Abakar at 16 — 7.97
The hardest thing about being 16 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Ali Abakar did not need any: 7.97, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Match24 Oct 2026
Nobody wants to play Elect Sport right now
4 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.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Ninety minutes of Mahamat Harouna at his very best
Marked 9.92. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Elect Sport.
Match24 Oct 2026
7 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Elect Sport and AS DGSSIE in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Goukouni Abakar was on a different afternoon to everybody else
9.90. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Ferdinand Gassina 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.
From our football correspondent
Triumph
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Oumar Abakar: 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.” Elect Sport have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad19 Oct 2026
At 22 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Match17 Oct 2026
Nobody wants to play Elect Sport 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Elect Sport this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Oct 2026
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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Ferdinand Gassina 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
Three points for Elect Sport, 2‑0 the final word against AS PSI in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.07, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
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Triumph
Squad12 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Frédéric Djoeta is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Frédéric Djoeta and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad12 Oct 2026
At 27 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 4 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
The terraces12 Oct 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Yannick Ndilabaye has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match10 Oct 2026
Three points for Elect Sport, 2‑0 the final word against Galactik in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Market12 Oct 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Idriss Doungous 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.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Frédéric Djoita was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.18. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
A performance of 8.02 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 2‑0, Abdoulaye Oumar could afford to be generous.
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Triumph
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.04, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Frédéric Djoita is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
1 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
At 33 the improving is meant to be over, and it is not: 3 points better than a year ago. It happens to the ones who take the boring parts seriously.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Elect Sport training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ferdinand Gassina 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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages eat 143% of everything Elect Sport earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Saleh Doungous 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.
Market5 Oct 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Brahim Tokindang 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.
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Steady
Squad28 Sep 2026
Moral Djimhotoum is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Adoum Defallah and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Mahamat Harouna has improved at 32, 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Ferdinand Gassina 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.
Loan watch28 Sep 2026
“I did not go to Gazelle to sit and watch. I want to come back to Elect Sport and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Elect Sport, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
Youssouf Abakar is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Imad Rqioui and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market21 Sep 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Frédéric Djoeta signs something — a contract at Elect Sport or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Steady
Squad14 Sep 2026
Frédéric Djoeta is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Imad Rqioui and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad14 Sep 2026
At 26 the improving is meant to be over, and it is not: 3 points better than a year ago. It happens to the ones who take the boring parts seriously.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ferdinand Gassina was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market14 Sep 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ezechiel Bechir is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market14 Sep 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ali Souleymane 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.
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Steady
Squad7 Sep 2026
Frédéric Djoita is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Elect Sport close the window on a squad of their own making
15 in and 2 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Imad Rqioui 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
Words at Elect Sport training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ferdinand Gassina 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
A stepping stone, not a home, for Imad Rqioui
He is doing his job and he is not settling. Elect Sport were supposed to be a step up in his own reckoning, and his own reckoning has been adjusted since he arrived.
Squad7 Sep 2026
He is doing things every Saturday that nobody around him can answer. It is flattering for a season and a problem after that, and Elect Sport know which stage they are at.
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Steady
Squad31 Aug 2026
Adoum Defallah and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market31 Aug 2026
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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Elect Sport will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ali Abakar was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market31 Aug 2026
Nobody sells a season ticket on a signing like this. Every manager who has been through a bad October wants one anyway, and Elect Sport have gone and got theirs early.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Hassan Mahamat
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market24 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
$38.0K on the table at AS Etat Major. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ferdinand Gassina was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Oumar Abakar and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Moussa Djimet and Elect Sport agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
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Steady
Squad17 Aug 2026
Frédéric Djoeta and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Ferdinand Gassina 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
The name of Brahim Souleymane has come up in conversations Elect Sport were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
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Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
Adoum Defallah and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Marius Souleymane 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Moussa Djimet 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Saleh Doungous 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Narcisse Souleymane 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.
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Steady
Market3 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ferdinand Gassina and Elect Sport agree another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Adoum Defallah and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ferdinand Gassina was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market3 Aug 2026
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Mahamat Harouna has his answer from Elect Sport; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Elect Sport, another week without a signature from Ferdinand Gassina.